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Fuchsia will also apparently, if unsurprisingly, support Progressive Web Apps, powered by Chrome.

From there, Google will work on making each of Chrome’s features work correctly on Fuchsia, including surprising challenges like how to download files to an easily accessible place in Fuchsia’s uniquely designed file system.

At time of writing, there are over 40 individual “bugs” filed for things that need to be done to get Chrome up and running, or to be done shortly after Chrome works on Fuchsia.Īt first, the work is focused on getting the “stubs” or bare minimums of each feature working, to get the browser to build at all. Chromium-based browser running on Fuchsia (2018)Īs you might expect, adding support for an entirely new operating system to Chrome is no small undertaking. In layman’s terms, this means bringing the full “Google Chrome” browser experience to Fuchsia, complete with critical features like sync and eventually newer, less important ones like Click To Call. However, despite full support from the Chromium project, there hadn’t been any signs of the actual Google Chrome app coming to Fuchsia.Īccording to the Chromium bug tracker, a new effort began in May to “Build the Chrome browser binary” for Fuchsia OS. In 2018, we even showed a simplified web browser running on Fuchsia, which used the core Chromium browser engine as it base, though without the usual interface surrounding the webpage.įuchsia still makes use of the Chromium browser engine today, with Fuchsia-powered smart home devices like the 1st-gen Nest Hub occasionally offering search results from the web rather than a direct answer from the Google Assistant.

To that end, Google is preparing to bring the full Google Chrome browser experience to Fuchsia OS.įor years now, the Fuchsia project has had a lot of overlap with Chromium, sharing both code and hardware with Chrome OS. Every good operating system needs a web browser, especially as more and more apps move to the web.