Google, Microsoft & Qualcomm working together on Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM computers

guest · Nov 21, 2018

Google, Microsoft & Qualcomm working together on Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM computers
November 19, 2018
https://9to5google.com/2018/11/19/microsoft-google-chrome-windows-10-arm/

Google now seems to have begun work on Google Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM, with a little help from an unexpected ally.

With Microsoft’s new Windows 10 on ARM initiative, the company is seeking to bring devices with ARM processors into the fold without punishing them as Windows RT did by being entirely incompatible with all existing Windows applications.

Many had initially speculated that the port of Chrome to Windows 10 on ARM was a competitive move on Google’s part, in an attempt to undercut Microsoft Edge, but this seems to not be the case. A significant number of the relevant commits have been contributed by a pair of Microsoft developers.
It has not yet been officially announced that Microsoft would be contributing to the development of Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM.
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guest · Oct 3, 2019

Chrome for Windows on ARM is ready, but Google isn't releasing it
October 3, 2019
https://www.neowin.net/news/chrome-for-windows-on-arm-is-ready-but-google-isnt-releasing-it

Last December at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Technology Summit, the company announced that both Chromium and Firefox are coming to Windows on ARM, running natively on ARM64. This aims to solve a major pain point of Windows on ARM, which is that browsers generate code in real-time, so they can't be cached and they're harder to emulate. In other words, you'll really want them to be running natively, rather than using an emulated x86 browser.

But all Chromium-based browsers have been missing in action to this day. Neither Microsoft's Edge or Google's Chrome is available for public testing. As it turns out though, Google has Chrome ready to go, but it's holding back.
What's unclear is why Google isn't releasing Chrome for ARM64. There seems to be some kind of disagreement between Google and one of the other companies involved (either Qualcomm or Microsoft), and last I heard, it will likely be resolved some time in the February timeframe.

As it stands right now, if you've got an ARM PC, your only options for native browsers are Edge Spartan and Firefox. This is all going to change eventually, but if you're a Chrome user, you're going to have to wait longer than others.
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