Google Chrome is the best-known web browser. Google has always worked on the Chrome browser to make it faster and more efficient. Recently, Google has started rolling out a new feature to offer a fast browsing experience, which says that the US tech giant will separate the Chrome web browser from Chrome OS very soon.
Although, Google’s project treble is making an important difference, increasing the Android adoption rate and extending the lifespan of older devices. Now, Google has decided to do the same with its Chromebooks by introducing Lacros.
Lacros:
The Lacros are the experimental units that decouple the Chrome web browser from the system UI on Chrome OS. Initially, the Chrome developers replaced the Chrome binary with the Ash-Chrome. Then they took the Linux version of Chrome and renamed it as Lacros-Chrome.
Refined its Wayland support and architecture and made it runnable in Chrome OS. This allows Google to ship two different binaries independently, regardless of version mismatch.
For your information, earlier versions of Chrome OS allow users to run both the regular Chrome browser and the Lacros browser on the same device. However, this decoupling of Chrome browser with Chrome OS allows the Chrome browser to update independently of Chrome OS.
Those Chromebooks that don’t receive system updates would not be receiving the Chrome browser updates. So, presumingly separating Chrome browser from Chrome OS requires a recent version of the platform, and it might not work in case you are running the older version.
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