deb files for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Solus, etc. OTOH, all current debian-based distributions can use the Google debian repositories to install Chrome, Google Earth, and a few others with no problems. No different than with Windows when 3rd party DLLs are needed. If my boss's machine used libfoo.2.99.so but my machine used libfoo.3.00.so and lacked the developer version of libfoo.2.99.so, I wouldn't be able to test with my boss's configuration even if both of our machines were based on the same Ubuntu version. OTOH, different Linux distributions are at most different species capable of interbreeding if not just different breeds within the same species.Ĭhecking configuration issues is always essential. Īre Ubuntu and Linux Mint different OSes? Metaphorically, Windows and Linux are at least different genuses if not different families. Tagged with Google, Chrome, Google Chrome It basically removes the need for you to open Internet Explorer (or Microsoft Edge) and manually go to the Chrome download page everytime you set up a new Windows 10 installation. At the end of the day, the Google Chrome Installer is still very, very pointless - the only functionality of the so-called installer is to open the download link for Chrome on your default browser. Still, Google has never cared much for the Microsoft/Store in the past, and the company’s newest app for Microsoft’s app store simply reiterates that. To be fair, Microsoft does not allow web browsing apps on its store unless they are using the EdgeHTML and JS engines provided by UWP, which is potentially the reason behind Google not bringing the actual Chrome browser to the Microsoft Store as it uses Chromium. From there, users follow the usual download link to download and install the browser using the default browser on their operating system. The company today released the Google Chrome Installer on the Microsoft Store, which is a modern Windows 10 web wrapper app that loads the Google Chrome download page. Google is bringing its Chrome browser to the Microsoft Store in Windows 10.

That’s one less crapware on the Microsoft Store, so this is good news either way.

It’s not clear whether Google or Microsoft removed the app from the store. Update: The Google Chrome Installer has now been pulled from the Microsoft Store following all the backlash from users.

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