Google Chrome is now available for Arm Linux. We tested it on a Raspberry Pi 5

Google Chrome web browser is now available for 64-bit Arm Linux, and we quickly tested it with Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 5GB 2GB SBC. The open-source Google Chromium web browser has been available for Arm Linux for years, but it lacks some features such as account sync, out-of-the-box DRM support, and automatic updates. Google wrote about working on a port last March, but hasn’t officially released it. However, users on Interfacing Linux have noticed that it can easily be installed by changing amd64 to arm64 in the download link. So we did that on a Raspberry Pi 5: [crayon-6a8282293d588241004705/] Google Chrome now appears alongside Chromium and Firefox in the list of Internet applications. The screenshot below shows that some GPU features like WebGL and video acceleration are enabled. The latter is not especially useful on a Raspberry Pi 5 since the Broadcom BCM2712 only supports H.265 hardware [...]

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