Google Chrome for Linux

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html

by drp • 17 years ago

181 78 17 years ago

Confusion• 17 years ago

I've been using the Ubuntu Chromium PPA builds for the last two months and as far as I can see, it all works just fine. Granted, the Delicious plugin didn't start working until a few weeks ago and I haven't yet tried any other plugin, but the developer tools are very good and those are the majority of my Firefox plugins.

truebosko4• 17 years ago

How do you get developer tools working? I'm using PPA builds as well, and I have no access to dev tools. Tried launching it with some flags and still no luck. Can't find documentation anywhere :/

igorgue• 17 years ago

take a look in synaptic, searching for "chromium" and you'll find that there is a separate package for the dev tools

drp• 17 years ago

To get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.

andrewcooke• 17 years ago

just don't use it for anything you'd rather keep private, i guess...

selven2• 17 years ago

I doubt Chrome (browser and OS) are going to become spyware platforms. Even if Google feels like data-mining you, it'll happen on the server side as you use Google search and your Google account and associated services.

pyre5• 17 years ago

Then run Chromium instead of Chrome. Inspect the code if you are wary about your privacy on the browser.

rufugee• 17 years ago

Great...looks slick and runs fast...but with comments like this (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/), how can I trust it?

bugs3• 17 years ago

Obviously you can't because you are doing something you think/know you aren't supposed to be doing.

In all reality however google is no more evil than telephone companies that allow the government to place wire taps on lines or datacenters allowing the government to take the private server your website is on.

andreyf3• 17 years ago

Since when is following laws evil?

pyre5• 17 years ago

Then run Chromium instead of Chrome. It's an open-source project. Inspect the code if you like.

andreyf3• 17 years ago

Well, every US company has to follow US laws, which means exposing otherwise private records to law enforcement when required. The comment was saying nothing more than this.

alec• 17 years ago

Stores passwords in plain text on disk: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&...

I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic security feature. I don't know what else isn't done yet, but it does make me worry. No guarantees that Firefox isn't doing similar things I'd object to, but I don't know about them, so for better or worse I have more confidence in it.

smanek• 17 years ago

What's the alternative?

Even if it encrypts the password before storing them on disk, the encryption/decryption key are necessarily on disk anyways, no?

sid0• 17 years ago

You can make the user enter a master password.

geocar• 17 years ago

No.

You can use a master password to decrypt your encrypted password database.

Your operating system might have a keyring service or an encrypted filesystem you can use to store your keys in.

You might even use a hardware token, or some specialized on-board hardware for storing your passwords securely.

tsuraan• 17 years ago

Every desktop environment that I'm familiar with (OSX, KDE, Gnome) has a built-in password manager to hook into, that stores the data encrypted and prompts the user for a master password in some configurable way. I'm guessing that if the OSX and Linux variations of Chrome get any traction, hooking into the password manager will probably be done.

I have no idea if Windows has a password manager, but I don't know why it wouldn't.

zacharydanger2• 17 years ago

Firefox does the exact same thing unless you setup a "master" password that you have to enter when you launch it.

pyre5• 17 years ago

How about just not using the browser to store you passwords?

keyist• 17 years ago

For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security.

Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...

stanley• 17 years ago

Iron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64).

Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?

pyre5• 17 years ago

I've been running daily builds of Chrome and Chromium without flash issues. I don't update regularly though. My 'daily builds' are probably 1.5-2 months old. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit though.

kylemathews• 17 years ago

For the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe".

Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.

NikkiA• 17 years ago

And for those of us that use xmarks, note that the xmarks alpha support for chrom[e|ium] will NOT work with the 3.0 stable version of iron, but DOES work with the Iron 4.0 beta.

jiaaro• 17 years ago

for what it's worth, I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)

peregrine• 17 years ago

Have you noticed the 5 second computer freeze every time you type or hit a keyboard button when Chrome is active? Cause I have.

selven2• 17 years ago

I've never had anything like that. Chrome on my computer is, at worst, taking 5-10% CPU usage to maintain 10 tabs in 2 windows, and it doesn't slow anything else down. Perhaps your OS is the problem?

sant0sk1• 17 years ago

If he had that problem I doubt he would have posted:

> I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)

JulianMorrison• 17 years ago

I've had a ton of tab crashes, tab freezes, slow downs, etc. But where Chrom(e|ium) shines is that you can generally just reload the tab and go. Worst case, quit and restart takes seconds.

mattezell2• 17 years ago

My experience has been the same.

I have been using the Chromium Ubuntu PPA for about 2 months and have had no issues until this week (details: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29536 ).

Although crippling to Chromium on my machine, I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried.

mattezell2• 17 years ago

"...I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried..."

Just thought that I would update - as of today's PPA update, the issue is resolved.

kingkilr• 17 years ago

Are there any advantages to running this over Chromium?

FlorinAndrei2• 17 years ago

Some dis-advantages, I guess. Since it's beta, it won't run plugins (yet). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

bugs3• 17 years ago

extensions seem to work fine

steveklabnik2• 17 years ago

The same advantages (and disadvantages) to running any stable build vs. development build.

zacharydanger2• 17 years ago

I just called up my local development site which has a ".dev" domain (which is setup in /etc/hosts) in Chrome and it decided it didn't want to load up any JavaScript or CSS. Apparently you have to disable the phishing and malware protection from the options. Just in case anyone else has a similar setup.

dchest• 17 years ago

I used .aq domain with Chrome for my dev projects: it's real and mostly unused.

duskwuff• 17 years ago

Antarctica. Nifty!

hussong• 17 years ago

Wait, you can resize the comment field? Quite handy, doesn't work with Gecko-based browsers nor Opera...

thamer• 17 years ago

It’s a webkit feature.

brown9-2• 17 years ago

It's not really the same thing without the alt-text, is it?

rflrob• 17 years ago

I'm just sad that Mac Chrome didn't also get a comic.

jimmyjim• 17 years ago

I know this isn't 'Chrome Support' - but any idea how I would get the scroll wheel to get working?

edit (i.e., have it be that actually clicking it yields the windows behavior of being in a 'scroll mode' - motioning it down will have me going down the page, instead of actually wheeling it down)

bumblebird• 17 years ago

This may be a niche problem, but I found an interesting bug in chrome yesterday.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357

Basically, if you do a redirect (30x) then the referrer isn't set. This means that a number of things are broken. The referrer should be set, and is set in all other browsers.

For example, if someone clicks on a tinyurl link, which redirects to your website, you won't get info on where they came from. The referrer will be empty.

Bug was reported in feb, I'm not sure why it's not been fixed, since it's a pretty big bug.

10ren• 17 years ago

Unfortunately, the chromium .deb pre-depends on a version of dpkg that is greater than the ones available on the xandros repositories for my little eeePC (it needs >= 1.14.00; repositories have 1.13.25). I'm sure the eee forums will have a solution to that, so I'll check there.

steamboiler• 17 years ago

Is there an equivalent of the Firefox 'Permit Cookies' plugin for Chrome?

petercooper• 17 years ago

Looks like they ran out of cash to get Scott McCloud like they did for the first, awesome, Chrome comic: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

leif• 17 years ago

Does anyone understand the first panel?

I see a bunch of people in a room, one with a can of soda, and another with a banana. Is this a party?

eru• 17 years ago

Nice comic. Needs better lettering.

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