Download & install Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a fast spider web browser available at no charge. Before you lot download, yous can check if Chrome supports your operating system and you have all the other arrangement requirements.

Install Chrome on Windows

  1. Download the installation file.
  2. If prompted, click Run or Save.
    • If you choose Save, to beginning installation, either:
      • Double-click the download.
      • Click Open file.
  3. If you're asked, "Do you desire to allow this app to make changes to your device," click Yes.
  4. Offset Chrome:
    • Windows 7: A Chrome window opens once everything is done.
    • Windows 8 & viii.1: A welcome dialog appears. Click Side by side to select your default browser.
    • Windows 10 & 11: A Chrome window opens later on everything is done. You can make Chrome your default browser.

If y'all've used a different browser, like Internet Explorer or Safari, you tin can import your settings into Chrome.

Can't install Chrome because of South mode

If you can't install Chrome on your Windows figurer, your computer might be in Southward mode. If you want to download and install Chrome, learn more about how to exit S mode. You can also learn how to fix issues installing Chrome.

Install Chrome offline

If you're having problems downloading Chrome on your Windows reckoner, you can effort the alternate link beneath to download Chrome on a different computer.

  1. On a reckoner connected to the Internet, download the alternate Chrome installer.
  2. Move the file to the computer where you want to install Chrome.
  3. Open the file, and follow the onscreen instructions to install.

If you lot land on the regular download page, that'southward normal. Even though the installers expect like, a special tag tells us which 1 is best for you.

Once you lot download the file, you tin send it to another computer.

Install Chrome on Mac

  1. Download the installation file.
  2. Open the file called "googlechrome.dmg."
  3. In the window that opens, find Chrome Chrome.
  4. Drag Chrome to the Applications folder.
    • Yous might be asked to enter the admin password.
    • If you don't know the admin password, drag Chrome to a place on your computer where you lot tin can make edits, like your desktop.
  5. Open up Chrome.
  6. Open Finder.
  7. In the sidebar, to the right of Google Chrome, click Squirt Eject.

Check your Mac configuration

Y'all can choose the correct version of Chrome to download based on your Mac processor.

To cheque which version of Chrome to install:

  1. On your Mac, select the Apple icon.
  2. Select About this Mac.
  3. In the "Overview" tab, next to "Processor" or "Scrap", check if it says "Intel" or "Apple".

When downloading the Chrome installation file, select the option that matches your device.

Install Chrome on Linux

Utilise the same software that installs programs on your computer to install Chrome. You'll be asked to enter the ambassador account password.

  1. Download the installation file.
  2. To open up the packet, click OK.
  3. Click Install Parcel.

Google Chrome will be added to your software manager and then it stays up-to-date.

Gear up issues with Chrome on Wayland

Chrome on Linux now supports Wayland along with X11. When Chrome opens on Linux, ane of these display server protocols is automatically called.

How Chrome interacts with a brandish server protocol

  • Chrome interacts with a brandish server protocol to help you perform certain types of actions. If yous have problem with these types of deportment in Wayland you tin modify back to X11:
    • Elevate-and-driblet
    • Copy and paste
    • Keyboard, mouse, or impact input.
  • Wayland restricts Chrome's ability to perform sure deportment such every bit:
    • Tab dragging will apply simplified preview thumbnails
    • Windows can't be placed at a set location on the screen.

How to override the Chrome automatic display server protocol option

From your browser:

  1. Navigate to chrome://flags
  2. Set #ozone-platform-hint to X11 or Wayland

From the command line:

  1. Navigate to the command line
  2. Launch Chrome:
    • For X11: --ozone-platform=x11
    • For Wayland: --ozone-platform=wayland

System requirements to use Chrome

Windows

To utilise Chrome on Windows, you lot'll demand:

  • Windows seven, Windows 8, Windows eight.1, Windows 10 or later
  • An Intel Pentium 4 processor or after that's SSE3 capable

Mac

To utilize Chrome on Mac, you'll need:

  • Bone 10 El Capitan x.xi or later on

Linux

To use Chrome on Linux, you'll need:

  • 64-scrap Ubuntu 14.04+, Debian 8+, openSUSE 13.3+, or Fedora Linux 24+
  • An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE3 capable

Fix bug with Chrome

  • Try uninstalling Chrome and reinstalling it to fix problems with your search engine, pop-ups, or Chrome updates.
  • Ready problems installing Google Chrome
  • Ready "Aw, Snap!" page crashes and other folio loading errors

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