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Google appears to be readying a version of its popular Chrome browser for Windows on Arm. X (formerly Twitter) user Pedro Justo<\/a> spotted a native version of the browser for Windows 11 Arm-powered devices in the latest nightly builds of Chrome in the Canary channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Google\u2019s release of a Chrome Canary version for Windows on Arm is a surprise,\t and we\u2019ve reached out to the company to clarify when it plans to bring this to the stable channel. I have installed and tested the Canary version to verify it\u2019s an ARM64 version.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While Microsoft has long supported an Arm version of its Edge browser, also based on Chromium, Google has showed no sign of supporting Windows on Arm until this week. That\u2019s left Windows devices running on Qualcomm\u2019s latest Snapdragon chips having to run Chrome in an emulated state, with slow performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The difference between the Edge ARM64 version and the regular x86 version of Chrome running on a Windows on Arm device is significant. Native versions of Edge on Arm devices feel just like any other Intel machine, but the slowdowns and performance issues in Chrome on Windows on Arm are noticeable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Google has long supported Arm processors with its Chromebooks, offering a version of ChromeOS that\u2019s optimized for Qualcomm\u2019s chips. Microsoft was able to ship its own ARM64 version of Edge as the software maker used the basics of Chromium to build a new browser without Google\u2019s Widevine digital rights management (DRM) system. Other browser vendors, that also use Chromium, have stuck with Google\u2019s DRM<\/a> so the choice of a native Arm browser on Windows is effectively just Edge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n