Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM near as Chromium successfully compiled

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When Microsoft’s browser team threw their lot in with Google’s Chromium web engine one of the expected outcomes was the development of a native version of Google Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM.

It seems that day is much closer, as an independent developer has managed to compile a working version of the Chromium browser for Windows 10 on ARM.

The feat was achieved by Jeremy Sinclair, who used a recent commit from 4/2 for win32-arm64-rel that was accepted.

Needless to say, the outcome was a working build as seen in his tweets below:

Ironically the move also, in a strange way, brings Chrome to Windows Mobile, if you excuse the multiple layers of hacks along the way:

While the feat does not mean you can download a native (and therefore faster and lighter) version of Google Chrome for your Windows 10 on ARM PC yet, it does mean Google could potentially deliver such a product in the very near future. The real question of course if there is enough Windows 10 on ARM users to justify the effort.

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