The latest version of Chrome in the Windows 11 Canary channel brings very good news to users. Indeed, it seems that Chrome has finally decided to develop a native version of its browser for ARM devices. We don’t know when this will be available, but it should happen soon.
The ARM version of Microsoft Edge is not new. Indeed, the Redmond firm was quick to offer a native version of its browser as soon as Windows for ARM was available. Also, Edge being based on the same Chromium core as Chrome, one would have thought that Google would not be long in following its colleague for its own browser. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
As a result, by opening Chrome on a device with an ARM processor, you are actually opening a browser emulator. If everything works correctly, performance is significantly reduced, which, on a browser as demanding as Chrome, is very damaging. It’s an understatement to say that device users have been waiting a long time for a native version of Chrome. Today, it seems the wait is coming to an end.
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Indeed, the Windows 11 build in the Canary channel welcomes a new version of Chrome, as Pedro Justo tells us on his X account (Twitter). In theory, this means that it shouldn’t be long before this ARM-native version of Chrome rolls out to all Windows 11 for ARM users, with the Canary channel typically representing the last step before a feature officially rolls out.
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If you have a device running Windows 11 for ARM or one equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon an emulator. Hopefully this is also the case for other Chromium browsers, like Opera and Brave.