A day after the arrival of the first Mac with ARM processors on the market, Google launched a new version of Chrome, number 87 of this browser, version adapted to Apple M1 processorsAlmost by surprise, since Google has never been known for being the first to adopt both hardware and software novelties.
However, the update was very short-lived in 9to5Google, since the company took care of rquickly remove it from your download page, since apparently it is suffering unexpected closures. At the moment, the search giant has not released any statement informing when it will be available again.
Users with one of the new computers that Apple released, who visited the Chrome download page, they had two options to download: The version of Chrome for Intel processors and the version of Chrome for Apple processors.
Users who downloaded the version of this browser for Intel on Apple M1 computers verified how it was automatically downloaded and installed the new version for Apple processors.
If you are one of the users who is using this version of Chrome for the new Apple processors and the operation leaves much to be desired, the best and fastest solution is uninstall the browser and download the Intel version again.
As expected, this new version for Apple ARM equipment reduces CPU usage by up to 5x, which means an increase in battery life of up to almost an hour and a half. Further, opens 25% faster And the loading time of the pages has also been reduced substantially.
Like the rest of the applications that are already compatible with macOS Big Sur, the chrome logo has also been resided and now it shows a square background with rounded edges conforming to the design that this new version of macOS releases.