Download & install Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a fast web browser bachelor at no charge. Earlier you download, you tin can cheque if Chrome supports your operating system and y'all have all the other system requirements.

Install Chrome on Windows

  1. Download the installation file.
  2. If prompted, click Run or Salvage.
    • If yous choose Salve, to beginning installation, either:
      • Double-click the download.
      • Click Open file.
  3. If you're asked, "Do yous want to allow this app to make changes to your device," click Yes.
  4. Start Chrome:
    • Windows vii: A Chrome window opens once everything is done.
    • Windows 8 & eight.1: A welcome dialog appears. Click Adjacent to select your default browser.
    • Windows x & 11: A Chrome window opens after everything is done. You tin can make Chrome your default browser.

If you've used a dissimilar browser, like Net Explorer or Safari, you tin can import your settings into Chrome.

Tin can't install Chrome because of S mode

If you tin't install Chrome on your Windows reckoner, your estimator might exist in S mode. If you lot want to download and install Chrome, learn more most how to exit S fashion. You lot can also learn how to set up issues installing Chrome.

Install Chrome offline

If you're having bug downloading Chrome on your Windows computer, you can try the alternating link beneath to download Chrome on a different computer.

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

If you lot land on the regular download page, that's normal. Even though the installers look similar, a special tag tells us which i is best for you.

In one case you download the file, you lot can send information technology to some other computer.

Install Chrome on Mac

  1. Download the installation file.
  2. Open the file chosen "googlechrome.dmg."
  3. In the window that opens, notice 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, elevate Chrome to a place on your computer where you tin can brand edits, like your desktop.
  5. Open Chrome.
  6. Open Finder.
  7. In the sidebar, to the right of Google Chrome, click Eject Eject.

Check your Mac configuration

You tin cull the right version of Chrome to download based on your Mac processor.

To check which version of Chrome to install:

  1. On your Mac, select the Apple icon.
  2. Select Nearly this Mac.
  3. In the "Overview" tab, next to "Processor" or "Chip", bank check if information technology says "Intel" or "Apple tree".

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

Install Chrome on Linux

Use the aforementioned software that installs programs on your reckoner to install Chrome. You lot'll be asked to enter the administrator account countersign.

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

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

Fix problems 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 chosen.

How Chrome interacts with a display server protocol

  • Chrome interacts with a brandish server protocol to assist you perform certain types of actions. If yous have trouble with these types of deportment in Wayland you can change back to X11:
    • Drag-and-drop
    • Copy and paste
    • Keyboard, mouse, or touch input.
  • Wayland restricts Chrome's ability to perform certain deportment such as:
    • Tab dragging will employ simplified preview thumbnails
    • Windows can't be placed at a set location on the screen.

How to override the Chrome automated brandish server protocol option

From your browser:

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

From the control 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 use Chrome on Windows, yous'll need:

  • Windows vii, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows ten or later
  • An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that'south SSE3 capable

Mac

To use Chrome on Mac, you'll demand:

  • OS X El Capitan 10.eleven or later

Linux

To use Chrome on Linux, you'll need:

  • 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04+, Debian 8+, openSUSE 13.three+, or Fedora Linux 24+
  • An Intel Pentium 4 processor or afterward that's SSE3 capable

Fix problems with Chrome

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