If you want to use Chrome instead, you can use Edge to download Chrome to your computer. Here’s how to download Google Chrome on Windows 11: Click the Edge icon on your taskbar.

That makes five separate Windows 11 Home machines we were unable to install Chrome on. Importantly, none of these machines were using Windows 11 in S mode, which can limit Windows' functionality.

As to the cause, Windows Latest did some detective work, and theorized that what Google had done here – somehow – was accidentally swap the Arm installer of Chrome with the x86 installer ...

This week, the update landed on Tuesday as normal, but what wasn't quite so regular was that it left Malwarebytes users unable to load Chrome in Windows 11, and the problem is still ongoing.

Chrome has run on Windows for a long time, but that's the x86 version. It also supports various Arm OSes, like Android, Chrome OS, and Mac OS.