Installing Chromium or Google Chrome Browsers

Peter Lilley, Rowan Puttergill Version F41 and newer Last review: 2026-05-11

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Chromium and Google Chrome web browsers

Fedora Workstation includes Mozilla Firefox as the default browser. It is easy to install either Google Chrome or Chromium if preferred.

Chromium

Chromium is the upstream open source project on which Google Chrome is based. It is available in the Fedora repositories.

Fedora’s Chromium package includes only free and open source software, so it does not include features of Google Chrome that rely on proprietary software — including support for proprietary media codecs such as H.264 and AAC.

If you need full codec support in Chromium, install chromium-freeworld from RPM Fusion instead. See Enabling the RPM Fusion repositories.

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a popular web browser developed by Google, built on top of the Chromium project. Chrome includes additional features not present in Fedora’s Chromium package, such as support for proprietary media codecs, playback of rights-protected content (Netflix, and so on), and Google services including browser sync and location services.

Google Chrome is available via a curated third-party repository. Once the repository is enabled, Chrome can be installed through GNOME Software or the command line.

Installing the browsers

Installing Chromium

Using GNOME Software

  1. Open Software from the Applications menu.

  2. Search for Chromium Web Browser.

  3. Click Install.

Using the command line

$ sudo dnf install chromium

To upgrade Chromium:

$ sudo dnf upgrade chromium

Installing Google Chrome

Using GNOME Software

  1. Open the Software application.

  2. Click on the menu at the top right and select Software Repositories.

  3. Scroll down to find the Third Party Repositories section. Optionally, you can enable the option to Enable New Repositories to automatically enable new third-party repositories as they become available.

  4. Scroll down to find the google-chrome repository. Ensure that it is enabled by toggling the switch.

    Enabling the Google Chrome repository in GNOME Software

You can now search for Google Chrome in Software and install it.

Using Plasma Discover

  1. Open Discover from the Applications menu.

  2. Click on Settings

  3. Scroll down to find the google-chrome repository. Ensure that it is enabled by toggling the checkbox.

    Enabling the Google Chrome repository in Plasma Discover

You can now search for Google Chrome in Discover and install it.

Using the command line

  1. Install the third-party repositories package:

    $ sudo dnf install fedora-workstation-repositories

  2. Enable the Google Chrome repository:

    $ sudo dnf config-manager setopt google-chrome.enabled=1

  3. Install Google Chrome:

    $ sudo dnf install google-chrome-stable
To install the Beta or Dev channel versions instead, replace google-chrome-stable with google-chrome-beta or google-chrome-unstable.

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