Viewing the contents of the filesystem that the DEB package will apply to your system can be done with dpkg-deb -c google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb.
dpkg-deb -c google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./etc/cron.daily/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./opt/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./opt/google/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./opt/google/chrome/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 7 2025-06-28 09:44 ./opt/google/chrome/CHROME_VERSION_EXTRA
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2025-06-28 09:44 ./opt/google/chrome/MEIPreload/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 238 2025-06-28 09:44 ./opt/google/chrome/MEIPreload/manifest.jsonHowever, if you want to explore the actual files inside the DEB package, use ar:
ar -t google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
debian-binary
control.tar.xz
data.tar.xzar is part of binutils package, which you can install via:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install binutils