Google Severs Chrome from the Rest of Chrome OS

[raymac46]

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/03/lacros_extends_chromeos_lifespan/

 

I tried this on my Chromebook and it is pretty easy to do. Transition was quite seamless. If you do this under ChromeOS version 116 there really is no difference in appearance, look and feel.

Edited August 27, 2023 by raymac46

[zlim]

Good move. I installed Brave on my chromebook and it had a few gliches; perhaps with Chrome no longer part of the OS, Brave will operate better.

[raymac46]

It isn't an easy matter to separate Chrome from the rest of the O/S, given that Chrome was the O/S when it started out. However there are advantages to doing it. They get ChromeOS' version of Google Chrome to update on the same schedule as other platforms i.e. more often. It now looks the same on a variety of systems.

Google hasn't released the Lacros browser as default yet. They have to make sure all the consumer, commercial and educational installations work fine before they do. However I'd say thay have reached the RC stage with it.