Hi,
I just saw Google-Chrome(Beta) is available for Linux from today.
Regards,
Barry.
Yep. Giving it a try right now. Doesn’t seem much different from the chromium build in the Contrib repo.
Can anyone enlighten us as to how the two differ?
Thanks!
Edit: Also, why does the Chrome Beta from google requires qt3, while chromium from Contrib doesn’t? I thought it was gtk anyways…
Except that Flash doesn’t seem to work in Chrome Beta.
Going back to the opensuse chromium build for now…
Yes that’s what I found. I went back to Chromium.
I’ll check Chrome out from time to time though.
Regards,
Barry.
The solution is here : Google chrome question! - openSUSE Forums
From Google:
Chromium is the name we have given to the open source project and the browser source code that we released and maintain at Home (The Chromium Projects). One can compile this source code to get a fully working browser. Google takes this source code, and adds on the Google name and logo, an auto-updater system called GoogleUpdate, and RLZ (described later in this post), and calls this Google Chrome. As such, everything which applies to Chromium below also applies to Google Chrome, while there are some things that apply to Google Chrome (such as the auto-updater) that do not apply to Chromium.
Entire post here:
Chromium Blog: Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google
Why run Chrome when it contains spyware/tracking devices? Let Windows users suffer with that.
Use Chromium and disable the tracking features, if desired.
Thanks! That answers much of my question.
So I guess that Chromium will always be the “dev channel”, so to speak. If I want a final released version (when it comes out), I would have to use the Chrome from Google?
In any case, the Chromium build seems a lot more stable than the official Google Chrome Beta. Thanks for the hard work!
> Can anyone enlighten us as to how the two differ?
The licensing?
the privacy issues?
The privacy?.. I guess being overly paranoid is warranted. At least with Privacy issues company’s like Google have to adhere to law’s.
I know a lot will now state “It depends on the level of Privacy were talking about” and it doe’s. If people want to keep themselves totally private they don’t own PC’s, dont use forum’s, don’t even have a mobile phone 
With each advance in technology it could be argued that a person’s “Privacy” diminishes, In a sense the statement is correct. We have a lot of “Socially” aware app’s, trackers and god knows what now and in the future (look at Google Wave!).
Google Chrome though unlike some other’s have a reputation to maintain and the privacy of a lot of people at stake. That work’s two ways, If you don’t “trust” google dont tell it anything you dont want it to know. If you don’t trust any app dont use it.
The whole “privacy” thing get’s taken to far imo, Google includes “Incognito” mode so you dont get tracked, it has a lot of reason’s to make the privacy of it’s user’s top priority.
Anyway’s I use both Chromium and Google Chrome. The differences tbh are very small (to be expected really), Chromium is basically the foundations Chrome is built on. AFAIK Chromium will have releases like Chrome, it’s basically a seperate project to Chrome. It will stay a couple of step’s ahead of Chrome so i guess in some ways it will be like a “dev-channel”
This is what i did.
cd /opt/google/chrome
mkdir plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 22:26 +0000, leonardbolanos wrote:
> Odd-rationale;2084382 Wrote:
> > Except that Flash doesn’t seem to work in Chrome Beta.
> >
> > Going back to the opensuse chromium build for now…
>
> This is what i did.
>
> cd /opt/google/chrome
> mkdir plugins
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
> /opt/google/chrome/plugins
I copied mine in. Just need to make sure your using
the 32bit one (I think). Anyhow, flash works on
all my 32 or 64bit openSUSE’s using chrome. Though
there are some KDE4 bugs (sorry) in oS 11.2 that
prevent native window appearance.
I think I did the --enable-plugins switch also
on invocation… but I think afterwards I didn’t
need to anymore.
One different is that Chromium can’t play x264 <video> tags, and Google Chrome can.
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:26 +0000, Axeia wrote:
> One different is that ‘Chromium can’t play x264 <video> tags, and Google
> Chrome can.’ (http://tinyurl.com/ycsm98y)
>
>
Yep and html5 on youtube works just fine because of that.
But… obviously, it’s still so WRONG…
vimeo’s html5 is at least high-def, where the youtube
html5 is not.
I don’t know if we’ll ever see a good video upload site
with ogv support.
Flash works strangely for me in Chromium. If I click on a link and don’t go to that tab right away, sometimes Flash doesn’t work. It’s just white space. I have to reload or close the tab and re-follow the link and then it works normally.
Other times, when I open a link with flash, the audio is playing but there is no video. I discovered that scrolling the page up or down a couple of lines makes the video appear.
It won’t sync bookmarks either…yeah, just keeping an eye on it myself…
I just wonder. This is the first time i install chrome.
For a long time i use firefox and so far i am happy with it. But now seeing chrome, it is quicker, but also more basic in appearance.
Do i have to be concerned about using google products, or how shall i feel?
One thing i don’t like is the bookmarks. I can not find them. There must be a menu somewhere.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:06:01 +0530, yester64
<yester64@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I just wonder. This is the first time i install chrome.
> For a long time i use firefox and so far i am happy with it. But now
> seeing chrome, it is quicker, but also more basic in appearance.
> Do i have to be concerned about using google products, or how shall i
> feel?
hard to say; how would you like to feel? there’s reason to be paranoid,
google stealing your thoughts and watching your every step on the
internet…but then, just for me, i couldn’t care less. if they have
nothing better to do than watch me, who doesn’t even have a bank account,
what to speak of purchasing things online, they’re welcome to exploit my
browsing habits. i don’t think they they’ll actually hack your computer or
things like that, and if some black-hat hacker or the government wants to
know what you’re up to, they’ll find out anyway.
> One thing i don’t like is the bookmarks. I can not find them. There
> must be a menu somewhere.
>
<ctrl> + <shift> + <b> shows your bookmarks on top of the page you have
open.
–
phani.
I’m a die hard FF fan 
You could also try opera if You haven’t already. It’s more feature rich and equally fast IMHO. Konqueror + webkit is also really fast and works nice for me.
Best regards,
Greg
Just to add to @glistwan’s post here is a good guide to make Konqueror use webkit:
Using WebKit in KDE 4.5 | OMG! SUSE!