Browser Wars

**Lee_Machine** · October 31st, 2009

If anyone wanted to know the daily builds of Google Chrome for Linux, and OSX are stable, fast, and almost feature complete. Major things like Flash work great. The GTK+ integration works great.

I'm sticking with this as my default browser.

here is the link

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/

**thomasaaron** · October 31st, 2009

Do you know if it has an equivalent to Xmark (for firefox)?

**Lee_Machine** · October 31st, 2009

http://blog.xmarks.com/?p=1244

Third party extension support is one of those "not feature complete" things.

But xmarks in Chrome seems to be in Alpha dev right now.

I can see how this might be a deal breaker for some. Especially those of us that browse the web at work, and want our bookmarks to appear on our browsers at home....you would think this functionality would be built into Chrome as Google is all about the cloud.

**jdb** · October 31st, 2009

Speaking of browsers, I just upgraded to Epiphany 2.28.1 & noticed I couldn't open a pdf by clicking on it.
It turns out they switched from using the Mozilla engine to using Webkit.
I'm hoping that future updates will bring all the functionality back.

jdb

**HotShotDJ** · October 31st, 2009

With Chrome's EULA (http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_text.html) I could never switch to it. I only agree to restrictive license terms when there is no other option (example: Google Earth).

Are there really any benefits to using Chrome that would outweigh having to agree to such licensing terms? I'm really not a GPL purist, and I value usability (getting my work done) over the FSF philosophy. But, having said that, there really does need to be some "killer" functionality before I would consider giving up my rights as defined by the FSF.

Having said that, I understand that there is an open-source version of Chrome (Chromium). Is this the version of Google Chrome that you are talking about? Is there any advantage to using it over Firefox?

**Lee_Machine** · November 1st, 2009

Chromium is the only version available for Linux, and OSX. It's 100% open source.

Here is the list of different licences it has, with the bulk being the BSD licence

http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html

**HotShotDJ** · November 1st, 2009

Originally Posted by Lee_Machine

Chromium is the only version available for Linux, and OSX. It's 100% open source.

Here is the list of different licences it has, with the bulk being the BSD licence

http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html

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