- Google Chrome installer for PCs with AMD and Intel CPUS has broken during last week
- Detective’s work suggests that the version for these PC was accidentally replaced by the arm installer, which is for very different Snapdragon CPU
- While the problem has now been solved, Google took a long time to solve it
Those who try to install the Chrome browser in Windows 11 or 10 in the course of last week may have been exhausted by an error that tells you that the application will not be executed on your PC, and I cannot believe how long Google has taken to solve this.
However, the good news is that the failure is fixed, even if it took the company much more than it should.
The problem, in case it has been lost, was marked in Reddit and by Windows more recent a week ago.
What happened was that when I turned on the Chrome Installer file (Chromesetup.exe, downloading from the Google website), people saw the process stop, with an error message that said: “This application cannot be executed on its PC: to find a version for your PC, verify with the software editor.”
As for the cause, Windows Last did a detective job and theorized that what Google had done here, somehow, accidentally changed the Chrome arm installer with the X86 installer. Which means that Chrome’s version for Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon processors (ARM based) was exchanged with the AMD or CPU version of Intel.
That conclusion was based on digging in the configuration file and finding references to ‘ARM’ that would surely not be there with an unintended executable. In addition, 9 to 5 Google supports this theory, since the technological site tested Chrome’s defective version on a Snapdragon PC, and discovered that it worked well (as it would if it were the arm installer).
9 to 5 Google was also on the ball in terms of noticing that the problem has finally been cured, and now you can download the Chrome installer on a Windows PC with an AMD or Intel CPU, and it will work as expected.
ANALYSIS: A basic disconcerting error with just one winner (edge)
Well, then you can make mistakes. In fact, they occur all the time in the technological world, or in other places. But for such a basic failure to stay in place to disturb a Windows user group during the best part of a week, it is disconcerting, especially while the reports flew over the problem.
Nor can I imagine that this was something particularly difficult to solve, since it looks like a simple mixture of files, as noted (unless there is something I lack here). Apparently, Google Chrome’s version was not affected, and the installer still worked for those with a machine with Snapdragon.
This could have cost Google to some Chrome users potentially, who could have tired that the browser was not installed, and perhaps he even filled with Microsoft Edge, his main rival, instead. (By the way, Edge is the best general web browser in regards to our summary of the most convincing offers).
