And after six months, Google has now released the stable build of Chrome OS Flex with support for more than 295 certified devices.Īs per Google’s official requirements, you need at least 4GB of RAM on your old PC to install Chrome OS Flex.
It also brought full Linux support, but Google Play Store did not make an appearance. Google took over the project in February 2022 and released the first beta build of Chrome OS Flex (aka CloudReady 2.0) based on Chrome OS - Google’s official desktop OS with support for Google Assistant and other Google services. CloudReady was built on the open-source Chromium OS base. It allowed users to breathe new life into older PCs and run Chrome OS. Two years back, Google acquired Neverware, a New York-based company that was developing CloudReady.
However, it looks like only new installations will go to this path, so if you’re already running Chrome, you must remove it and then reinstall the browser to have all files moved to the correct folder. This means some files will be stored at: C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome As discovered by TechDows, Google Chrome 64-bit will install in the correct place beginning with a future update. Future work will be done to move Chrome to the 64-bit Program Files folder,” they posted in the same bug report.įast forward six years later and here’s Google finally working on resolving the whole thing. And by the looks of things, it didn’t make any sense in 2014 either, as this is a problem that was first reported six years ago on the Chromium Bugs tracker.Ī Chromium engineer said in 2014 this is exactly how they designed the browser but promised some changes in this regard at some point in the future. So despite being a 64-bit browser, it still puts its files in the x86 folder, something that makes no sense these days.
For example, I’m running Chrome 64-bit on Windows 10 right now, and this is the default location where the browser was installed: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome Right now, if you install the 64-bit version of the browser on Windows, the application stores some of its data in the x86 version of the program files folder on the operating system. Google has recently started the work on resolving another Google Chrome annoyance, and while this isn’t necessarily related to a new feature, it’s still big news for Windows users.
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