Chromium for Tumbleweed -- resolve the "tab won't close" issue

English Install/Boot/Login
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I had Chromium from the openSUSE “Contrib” repository. A recent upgrade of Chromium from that repo installed this version: chromium-15.0.854.0-3.1.x86_64

Unforunately that version carries a bug whereby clicking the X on open tabs does not close the tab.

The problem is solved by installing the version of Chromium that is found in the special Tumbleweed repo for Chromium, at this address:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/chromium/openSUSE_Tumbleweed

The version there supersedes the buggy version in “Contrib” and fixes the problem.
The newer version is chromium-15.0.859.0-1.1.x86_64

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Still, it’s very sloooow compared to build 846.
I hope developers will fix it soon.

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They’re working on it. CPU usage in the 859 build is still horribly high. Raymond Wooninck posted in one of the other threads on Chromium. It affects all versions.

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Tabs closing is working for me. I updated to the latest version from network:/chromium/openSUSE_Tumbleweed today and I didn’t notice any excessive cpu usage.

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Lucky you. I find I have to wait a good 3-4 secs, sometimes 10 or more, after opening, until I can drag the slider on the right hand side down.

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AFAICS it’s solved now. @swerdna: are you using the new repo, John? Index of /repositories/network:/chromium/openSUSE_Tumbleweed is where we should look now. This was posted in some other thread.

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Check the first post in this thread.