Google-Chrome

[Barry_Nichols]

Hi,

I've been using Google-Chrome-unstable for a while on my second Laptop, which is running Ubuntu, for testing; as it's deb based it's available in the repositories.

Over the last week there have been updates for it almost every day, has anyone heard if it's nearing stable release for Linux?


Regards,
Barry.

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by Barry Nichols

Hi,

I've been using Google-Chrome-unstable for a while on my second Laptop,
which is running Ubuntu, for testing; as it's deb based it's available
in the repositories.

Over the last week there have been updates for it almost every day, has
anyone heard if it's nearing stable release for Linux?


Regards,
Barry.

Hi
It's been in the repositories for months in various forms from the OBS??
It's name changed to chromium which may be why you haven't seen it?
<http://www.benkevan.com/blog/chromium-browser-build-service-by-dbuck/>

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[Barry_Nichols]

Hi,

Thanks for the info, I hadn't noticed that, I'll take a look; however the original question was regarding Google Chrome, which Google state is still in development.

I'll get downloading Chromium now.


Regards,
Barry.

[ken_yap]

The Chromium project is volunteer parallel project. The official Linux Chrome from Google hasn't been released AFAIK.

Chromium's noticeably faster and lighter but will fail on a tiny percentage of the pages. I used it a fair bit on a netbook and liked it better than Firefox.

[Barry_Nichols]

Hi,

I just installed Chromium and I'm loving it.

Thanks for your help.


Regards,
Barry.

[Siminin]

I like chrome/chromium very much. It's my main browser although it's still in beta stage. It's fast and light. the one thing i don't like is that its shell is GTK based but it's not a big deal.

[RigorMortis]

Just curious, is this an actual Chrome "port" or is it just using the chromium source. Just wondering if all that 'send anonymous information to Google' things are in there.

[syampillai]

I didn't know about Chromium. Now, just installed it.

Earlier I installed chrome on 11.1 after converting the debian package to rpm. But, it was having issues.

[didencool]

I use chromium too as my basic browser, It is very useful and well-designed.
I am not using firefox no more.
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[bigbearomaha]

I finally got around to installing chromium yesterday.

It's interesting. Got to give credit where it's due, it is fast.

I personally like it's simplistic, non cluttered look. others in my house find it a bit too different to be comfortable with it right away.

I noticed a small glitch in how it renders some pages. Like mediawiki pages, it wants to place the sidebar menus at the bottom of the page instead of the top where it normally appears. beyond that, I have seen anything major wrong.

I'll give it some more long term use to decide if I really like it or not. till then. it's ok.

Big Bear