Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices (blog.chromium.org)

Looking forward to no longer having to patch glibc on my Linux phone just so I can watch YouTube or use Spotify.

I'm confused, how does Chrome work on ARM64 Android phones today?

Curious; given that ARM Chromebooks are nothing new, I'm surprised that it took them this long to ship it to other Linux distros.

I have been waiting... so many years for this. Like, I figured it would never come. So happy to be wrong. Wonder if it will work well on Raspberry Pi and also if it will come with Hardware Video Acceleration out of the box.

a lot of people seem to not understand what used to go into running chrome on arm64 devices, this blog goes over it pretty well

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html

Nope. Make uBlock Origin work properly again, or gtfo of the browser market.

Wait... weren't there many ARM Chromebooks already?

I recently switched to using an NVIDIA Spark as my primary workstation and lack of Chrome binaries for it are what finally pushed me to completely sever my relationship with Chrome and switch to Firefox.

Sorry, Google. Too late!

(Bonus: ad blocking properly works).

Cool. Let’s release Android NDK for Linux arm64 host, too.

  Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026, following the successful expansion of Chrome to Arm-powered macOS devices in 2020 and Arm-powered Windows devices in 2024.. Google is partnering with NVIDIA to make it easier for DGX Spark users to install Chrome. 

Will be useful in isolated Debian Linux pKVM Arm VM with accelerated vGPU, in Android-ChromeOS converged desktop on Qualcomm Arm laptops. Possibly Nvidia-Mediatek Arm laptops, if they support h/w nested virt for pKVM/AVF.

Android desktop mode: https://x.com/sahajsarup/status/2031963143082295610

I hope this means widevine builds for aarch64 linux are finally here (which is a strange thing to wish for but it will obsolete some very janky workarounds)

Debian ships Chromium on many architectures for a long time now, apparently. I never tried it outside of x86_64, so I can't say how usable it is. What am I missing? Is this about V8 JIT and widewine? Although those must be already supported on chromebooks, so I don't know.

Lists of architectures on oldstable (bookworm): amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/chromium

From where I stand it seems they enabled a build architecture for Chrome, but I don't think this required a lot of porting effort. Kudos for the official support though.

> This launch marks a major milestone in our commitment to the Linux community and the Arm ecosystem.

So does Chrome finally hardware accelerates You Tube on GNU/Linux, and supports WebGPU, just like on Android/Linux and ChromeOS/Linux?

Bring the mobile UI there and it will be a news. Chromium has worked on ARM64 Linux since forever.

Surely are more ARM64 Linux Devices running Chrome then any other Arch-Kernel combo in history? Not packaging it for common distros when they have built two empires off the kernel was just a choice.

Does that mean Widevine DRM will be supported officially? Does anyone know?

Most interesting here is the possibility of Arm64 Widewine libraries appearing?

--2026-03-14 04:50:18-- https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_curr... Resolving dl.google.com (dl.google.com)... 192.178.170.136, 192.178.170.91, 192.178.170.190, ... Connecting to dl.google.com (dl.google.com)|192.178.170.136|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2026-03-14 04:50:18 ERROR 404: Not Found.

when microsoft? https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/Status/issues/697

> We’re excited to announce that Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026

> Users with other Linux distributions can also install the ARM64 version of Chrome by visiting chrome.com/download.

You had one job, press release person!