Googlebooks started getting Chrome 157 on November 12, 2026. The one fix written for these laptops repairs web apps that wouldn’t install or open. If you’ve pinned sites to your taskbar through Chrome, update now instead of waiting for it to reach you on its own.
Chrome Unboxed reports that the Googlebook fix targets the “Install page as app” flow, which had left some web apps failing to install or launch. Chrome 155 opened that option up to any website, and Googlebook OS leans on web apps for a lot of everyday work, so a bug there gets in the way fast.
Everything else in the release is the regular Chrome 157 build. Google moved it to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux on November 3, and Google’s desktop release notes list more than 200 security fixes. By November 9, when Google sent out a follow-up build, desktop and Android were both on 157. Googlebooks stayed on Chrome 156 until this week.
Chrome updates separately from Googlebook OS, so you don’t need a system update to get it. Google hasn’t posted release notes this time. With Chrome 156 it published a changelog in the Googlebook Help Community, but for 157 the install fix is the only change anyone has named.
Googlebooks are still getting Chrome later than everyone else
The reason for separating Chrome from the operating system was to get browser updates onto Googlebooks at the same pace as phones and PCs. This one arrived nine days after desktop and five days before the next version is due.
On a laptop that depends this much on web apps, Chrome should reach Googlebooks the same week it reaches every other platform.
To install it now, open the Play Store on your Googlebook, search for Chrome and tap Update. If the download stalls, these ChromeOS update installation statistics show how often that happens on Google’s laptops. Chrome 158 is due on November 17 under Chrome’s two-week release cycle, so watch for another Googlebook update soon after that.
