Download & install Google Chrome

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

Install Chrome on Windows

  1. Download the installation file.
  2. If prompted, click Run or Save.
    • If you lot choose Save, to showtime installation, either:
      • Double-click the download.
      • Click Open up file.
  3. If you're asked, "Do you lot want to allow this app to make changes to your device," click Yes.
  4. Showtime Chrome:
    • Windows 7: A Chrome window opens once everything is washed.
    • Windows eight & 8.one: A welcome dialog appears. Click Next to select your default browser.
    • Windows 10 & 11: A Chrome window opens later everything is done. You can make Chrome your default browser.

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

Can't install Chrome considering of S manner

If you tin't install Chrome on your Windows computer, your figurer might be in S fashion. If y'all want to download and install Chrome, learn more than most how to exit S mode. You can also learn how to fix problems installing Chrome.

Install Chrome offline

If you're having problems downloading Chrome on your Windows computer, you tin can try the alternate link below to download Chrome on a different computer.

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

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

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 binder.
    • You might be asked to enter the admin password.
    • If you don't know the admin countersign, elevate Chrome to a place on your computer where yous can make edits, like your desktop.
  5. Open Chrome.
  6. Open up Finder.
  7. In the sidebar, to the right of Google Chrome, click Eject Eject.

Check your Mac configuration

Yous can choose 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 "Fleck", check if it says "Intel" or "Apple".

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

Install Chrome on Linux

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

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

Google Chrome will be added to your software director so information technology stays up-to-appointment.

Fix issues with Chrome on Wayland

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

How Chrome interacts with a display server protocol

  • Chrome interacts with a display server protocol to help you perform sure types of deportment. If you have trouble with these types of actions in Wayland you can change back to X11:
    • Drag-and-driblet
    • Copy and paste
    • Keyboard, mouse, or bear on input.
  • Wayland restricts Chrome'southward ability to perform certain actions such as:
    • Tab dragging volition use simplified preview thumbnails
    • Windows can't be placed at a set location on the screen.

How to override the Chrome automatic brandish server protocol choice

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

Organization requirements to use Chrome

Windows

To use Chrome on Windows, you'll need:

  • Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows viii.1, Windows 10 or later
  • An Intel Pentium four processor or afterwards that's SSE3 capable

Mac

To use Chrome on Mac, yous'll need:

  • Bone 10 El Capitan 10.11 or later

Linux

To utilise Chrome on Linux, yous'll need:

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

Fix problems with Chrome

  • Try uninstalling Chrome and reinstalling it to set problems with your search engine, pop-ups, or Chrome updates.
  • Fix bug installing Google Chrome
  • Gear up "Aw, Snap!" page crashes and other page loading errors

Related manufactures

  • Turn sync on or off in Chrome
  • Update Google Chrome
  • Uninstall Google Chrome

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