diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/tar.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/tar.ts
index 7d6098b45a..0210bcaec5 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/tar.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/utils/tar.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 import fs from 'fs';
 import { Writable, once } from 'stream';
 import assert from 'assert';
+import { join } from 'path';
 
 enum TarType {
   REGTYPE,
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ class TarEntry {
   linkname: string;
   uid: number;
   gid: number;
+  prefix: string;
 
   fileStream: fs.WriteStream | null = null;
   remainingBytes = 0;
@@ -53,10 +55,11 @@ class TarEntry {
 
     this.uid = parseInt(header.toString('ascii', 108, 116).trim(), 8);
     this.gid = parseInt(header.toString('ascii', 116, 124).trim(), 8);
+    this.prefix = header.toString('utf8', 345, 500).replace(/\0/g, '');
   }
 
   async writeToDisk(outputPath: (path: string) => string) {
-    const fullPath = outputPath(this.name);
+    const fullPath = outputPath(this.prefix ? join(this.prefix, this.name) : this.name);
     switch (this.type) {
       case TarType.DIRTYPE:
         await fs.promises.mkdir(fullPath, { recursive: true, mode: 0o755 });
diff --git a/tests/library/unit/tar.spec.ts b/tests/library/unit/tar.spec.ts
index 5ffaa43ecd..f741749ef3 100644
--- a/tests/library/unit/tar.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/library/unit/tar.spec.ts
@@ -36,85 +36,107 @@ test('tar extractor', async () => {
   expect(await readFile(test.info().outputPath('tar-example/symlink'), { encoding: 'utf-8' })).toEqual('foo-content');
 });
 
-test('extract browser', async () => {
-  // not run by default because it's not hermetic. i'll remove this once we use the TAR extractor in our code.
+test.describe('browser downloads', () => {
+  // not run by default because they're not hermetic. i'll remove them once we use the TAR extractor in our code.
   test.skip(process.env.TEST_TAR_BROWSER !== '1');
 
-  const response = await fetch('https://playwright.azureedge.net/download-for-internal-testing/playwright/builds/chromium/1152/chromium-headless-shell-linux-arm64.tar.br');
-  const input = Readable.fromWeb(response.body as any);
-  const decompressor = createBrotliDecompress();
-  const extractor = new TarExtractor(name => test.info().outputPath(name));
-  await finished(input.pipe(decompressor).pipe(extractor));
+  test('chromium-headless-shell', async () => {
+    const response = await fetch('https://playwright.azureedge.net/download-for-internal-testing/playwright/builds/chromium/1152/chromium-headless-shell-linux-arm64.tar.br');
+    const input = Readable.fromWeb(response.body as any);
+    const decompressor = createBrotliDecompress();
+    const extractor = new TarExtractor(name => test.info().outputPath(name));
+    await finished(input.pipe(decompressor).pipe(extractor));
 
 
-  expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-linux'))).toEqual([
-    'headless_command_resources.pak',
-    'headless_lib_data.pak',
-    'headless_lib_strings.pak',
-    'headless_shell',
-    'hyphen-data',
-    'icudtl.dat',
-    'libEGL.so',
-    'libGLESv2.so',
-    'libvk_swiftshader.so',
-    'libvulkan.so.1',
-    'v8_context_snapshot.bin',
-    'vk_swiftshader_icd.json',
-  ]);
-  expect(await readFile(test.info().outputPath('chrome-linux/vk_swiftshader_icd.json'), { encoding: 'utf-8' })).toEqual(`{"file_format_version": "1.0.0", "ICD": {"library_path": "./libvk_swiftshader.so", "api_version": "1.0.5"}}`);
-  expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-linux/hyphen-data'))).toEqual([
-    'hyph-af.hyb',
-    'hyph-as.hyb',
-    'hyph-be.hyb',
-    'hyph-bg.hyb',
-    'hyph-bn.hyb',
-    'hyph-cs.hyb',
-    'hyph-cu.hyb',
-    'hyph-cy.hyb',
-    'hyph-da.hyb',
-    'hyph-de-1901.hyb',
-    'hyph-de-1996.hyb',
-    'hyph-de-ch-1901.hyb',
-    'hyph-el.hyb',
-    'hyph-en-gb.hyb',
-    'hyph-en-us.hyb',
-    'hyph-es.hyb',
-    'hyph-et.hyb',
-    'hyph-eu.hyb',
-    'hyph-fr.hyb',
-    'hyph-ga.hyb',
-    'hyph-gl.hyb',
-    'hyph-gu.hyb',
-    'hyph-hi.hyb',
-    'hyph-hr.hyb',
-    'hyph-hu.hyb',
-    'hyph-hy.hyb',
-    'hyph-it.hyb',
-    'hyph-ka.hyb',
-    'hyph-kn.hyb',
-    'hyph-la.hyb',
-    'hyph-lt.hyb',
-    'hyph-lv.hyb',
-    'hyph-ml.hyb',
-    'hyph-mn-cyrl.hyb',
-    'hyph-mr.hyb',
-    'hyph-mul-ethi.hyb',
-    'hyph-nb.hyb',
-    'hyph-nl.hyb',
-    'hyph-nn.hyb',
-    'hyph-or.hyb',
-    'hyph-pa.hyb',
-    'hyph-pt.hyb',
-    'hyph-ru.hyb',
-    'hyph-sk.hyb',
-    'hyph-sl.hyb',
-    'hyph-sq.hyb',
-    'hyph-sv.hyb',
-    'hyph-ta.hyb',
-    'hyph-te.hyb',
-    'hyph-tk.hyb',
-    'hyph-uk.hyb',
-    'hyph-und-ethi.hyb',
-    'manifest.json',
-  ]);
+    expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-linux'))).toEqual([
+      'headless_command_resources.pak',
+      'headless_lib_data.pak',
+      'headless_lib_strings.pak',
+      'headless_shell',
+      'hyphen-data',
+      'icudtl.dat',
+      'libEGL.so',
+      'libGLESv2.so',
+      'libvk_swiftshader.so',
+      'libvulkan.so.1',
+      'v8_context_snapshot.bin',
+      'vk_swiftshader_icd.json',
+    ]);
+    expect(await readFile(test.info().outputPath('chrome-linux/vk_swiftshader_icd.json'), { encoding: 'utf-8' })).toEqual(`{"file_format_version": "1.0.0", "ICD": {"library_path": "./libvk_swiftshader.so", "api_version": "1.0.5"}}`);
+    expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-linux/hyphen-data'))).toEqual([
+      'hyph-af.hyb',
+      'hyph-as.hyb',
+      'hyph-be.hyb',
+      'hyph-bg.hyb',
+      'hyph-bn.hyb',
+      'hyph-cs.hyb',
+      'hyph-cu.hyb',
+      'hyph-cy.hyb',
+      'hyph-da.hyb',
+      'hyph-de-1901.hyb',
+      'hyph-de-1996.hyb',
+      'hyph-de-ch-1901.hyb',
+      'hyph-el.hyb',
+      'hyph-en-gb.hyb',
+      'hyph-en-us.hyb',
+      'hyph-es.hyb',
+      'hyph-et.hyb',
+      'hyph-eu.hyb',
+      'hyph-fr.hyb',
+      'hyph-ga.hyb',
+      'hyph-gl.hyb',
+      'hyph-gu.hyb',
+      'hyph-hi.hyb',
+      'hyph-hr.hyb',
+      'hyph-hu.hyb',
+      'hyph-hy.hyb',
+      'hyph-it.hyb',
+      'hyph-ka.hyb',
+      'hyph-kn.hyb',
+      'hyph-la.hyb',
+      'hyph-lt.hyb',
+      'hyph-lv.hyb',
+      'hyph-ml.hyb',
+      'hyph-mn-cyrl.hyb',
+      'hyph-mr.hyb',
+      'hyph-mul-ethi.hyb',
+      'hyph-nb.hyb',
+      'hyph-nl.hyb',
+      'hyph-nn.hyb',
+      'hyph-or.hyb',
+      'hyph-pa.hyb',
+      'hyph-pt.hyb',
+      'hyph-ru.hyb',
+      'hyph-sk.hyb',
+      'hyph-sl.hyb',
+      'hyph-sq.hyb',
+      'hyph-sv.hyb',
+      'hyph-ta.hyb',
+      'hyph-te.hyb',
+      'hyph-tk.hyb',
+      'hyph-uk.hyb',
+      'hyph-und-ethi.hyb',
+      'manifest.json',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test('chromium-mac-arm64', async () => {
+    const response = await fetch('https://playwright.azureedge.net/download-for-internal-testing/playwright/builds/chromium/1152/chromium-mac-arm64.tar.br');
+    const input = Readable.fromWeb(response.body as any);
+    const decompressor = createBrotliDecompress();
+    const extractor = new TarExtractor(name => test.info().outputPath(name));
+    await finished(input.pipe(decompressor).pipe(extractor));
+
+
+    expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-mac'))).toEqual(['Chromium.app']);
+    expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-mac/Chromium.app'))).toEqual(['Contents']);
+    expect(await readdir(test.info().outputPath('chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents'))).toEqual([
+      'Frameworks',
+      'Info.plist',
+      'MacOS',
+      'PkgInfo',
+      'Resources',
+    ]);
+    expect(await readFile(test.info().outputPath('chrome-mac/Chromium.app/Contents/Info.plist'), { encoding: 'utf-8' })).toHaveLength(10903);
+  });
 });