I would really like to play my Steam games on my Chromebook, but I cannot figure out how to get Steam and play my games on said glorified web browser. Is there any good way to play Steam on a Chromebook?
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Xfire and PlayXpert offer web browsers as part of their in-game overlays. There is also the Rogue in-game browser. Xfire offer a preview video of their web browser. All look to have tabbed browsing and offer more features than Steam's, though it's hard for me to say whether they meet your expectations.
Both Xfire and PlayXpert also ship with chat clients.
Raptr's in-game overlay supports AIM and I believe XChat makes available an addon to that end also. Personally I'd try Raptr first. Any of the web browsers may also support AIM Express, an official browser-based AIM client.
The placement of the setting to change the homepage has been changed after the last answer posted here (July 26 2012). It is now located in the "Web Browser" tab.
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Best Answer
As mentioned in the other answer, you could install Linux on your Chromebook. However, this may not be of use because most of the games are processor-specific and will likely require Intel/AMD processors (x64 or x86 instruction set) instead of a Chromebook's ARM processor (completely different instruction set).
Although Steam offers multi-platform gaming, the binaries that are downloaded from Steam are specific to the platforms that Steam offers - Windows, macOS and Linux, and all of those (as far as I know) are Intel-only.
For example, you cannot install Steam on macOS on a PowerPC. Yes Mac OS is supported but ancient Mac OSX is not, and PowerPC is not even though it falls under the "Mac OS" umbrella.
The same is true of your Chromebook. You might be able to get it to run Linux but it won't be the CPU-specific version of Linux (Linux under i686) that Steam supports.