Google Chrome 3 - Browser

[Shibblet]

It's just been released for Windows. Where is the Linux version?!?!

[SunnyRabbiera]

It's just been released for Windows. Where is the Linux version?!?!

It wont come out I dont think, screw Chrome anyway.

[wojox]

Probably run it through wine. Firefox still rocks.

[-grubby]

chromium-browser in the Ubuntu repos I believe.

[coldReactive]

chromium-browser in the Ubuntu repos I believe.

It won't be version 3 though. Searching for chromium in the ubuntu repos ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/ ) results in a side-scroller action/shooter game. Where according to you, it should also turn up the chromium browser package.

You should get the unstable package from here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

[cdwillis]

The package is indeed chromium-browser. I added the PPA and have been using it for months. It's great and has pretty much replaced firefox on my system.

[Bölvaður]

The package is indeed chromium-browser. I added the PPA and have been using it for months. It's great and has pretty much replaced firefox on my system.

be warned that even though chromium is great (using it right now) there are still some things missing.
The only two things that are keeping me from using it all the time is that when I try to download big files the download stops before it has finished and also because the quake live plugin doesnt work on it (perhaps it does if I fake to be on ff3.0)

[NormanFLinux]

I downloaded the final version. It is just me or is Chrome another Webkit/Mozilla clone?

[Shibblet]

The package is indeed chromium-browser. I added the PPA and have been using it for months. It's great and has pretty much replaced firefox on my system.

Chromium Browser, or Google Chrome Browser. I know they are similar, but what's the difference?

[dcunited]

Take a look at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

[phrostbyte]

I downloaded the final version. It is just me or is Chrome another Webkit/Mozilla clone?

It uses Webkit, so it's not a "clone" of it. :)

[-grubby]

It won't be version 3 though. Searching for chromium in the ubuntu repos ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/ ) results in a side-scroller action/shooter game. Where according to you, it should also turn up the chromium browser package.


Oh, right. Well, there's a PPA somewhere.

[Regenweald]

Oh, right. Well, there's a PPA somewhere.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily


in case you need it
:)

[phrostbyte]

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily


in case you need it
:)

Wow that's a new command. Is there a apt:// equivalent for that?

[Mr. Picklesworth]

be warned that even though chromium is great (using it right now) there are still some things missing.
The only two things that are keeping me from using it all the time is that when I try to download big files the download stops before it has finished and also because the quake live plugin doesnt work on it (perhaps it does if I fake to be on ff3.0)

Printing has finally been implemented, and plugins are enabled by default now. I think it's pretty well on par with the Windows version now. (With some Linux-specific tweaks, such as opening a new tab with the selected text when you middle click on the New Tab button... and use of GNOME's proxy settings instead of reinventing the wheel).

I should point out, for that matter, that Chromium does way less reinventing the wheel on Linux than Firefox does, in the spots where it matters. It really shows in performance and smoothness.

As for Chromium vs. Chrome... Chrome is basically Chromium packaged with branding, where Chromium is a project being maintained by Google. This is just like how Mozilla has an unbranded Firefox (Shiretoko for 3.5) and ships the branded Firefox with a pretty icon for final releases.

[hoppipolla]

I much prefer it to Firefox as well :)

And I dunno, Chromium is certainly very good, I'm not sure how it compares to Chrome 3 for Windows...

[coldReactive]

I much prefer it to Firefox as well :)

And I dunno, Chromium is certainly very good, I'm not sure how it compares to Chrome 3 for Windows...

Chromium from the dev-channel is currently version 4, lol.

[hoppipolla]

Chromium from the dev-channel is currently version 4, lol.

lol how does that compare though? i mean surely they don't mean quite the same thing?

So far though, development niggles aside, I have actually preferred Chrome/ium for Linux. :)

[Regenweald]

Wow that's a new command. Is there a apt:// equivalent for that?

I'm honestly not sure ;) sorry man..

[marchwarden]

The package is indeed chromium-browser. I added the PPA and have been using it for months. It's great and has pretty much replaced firefox on my system.

Same here, no deal breakers for me yet.

[andras artois]

Until it gets adblock, undo closed tab and a download statusbar then it is not for me. Apart from that I really like it and it's really fast.

[coldReactive]

Until it gets adblock, undo closed tab and a download statusbar then it is not for me. Apart from that I really like it and it's really fast.

I'd take NoScript over adblock anyday due to the fact DeviantART has issues with adblock.

[joey-elijah]

Until it gets adblock, undo closed tab and a download statusbar then it is not for me. Apart from that I really like it and it's really fast.

it HAS 2 adblocking extensions already! abblock+ and adsweep.

http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/chrome-plugins/adblock-7523.html

and if you use the easylist subscription normally in firefox then this one comes preconfigured with it: -

http://ruzanow.ru/extensions/beta/adblock.crx

[.crx is ChRome eXtension file type. E.G. Firefox uses .xpi, chrome uses .crx]

ALSO

i don't know what version of Google Chrome the OP is using, but the official Google Chrome Linux Beta is using 4.0.211.2.

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8674/screenshot022.png

[Roberticus]

undo closed tab
Umm, New Tab and then below: Recently closed?

and a download statusbar
The green ring that goes around the icon?

[Mr. Picklesworth]

Until it gets adblock, undo closed tab and a download statusbar then it is not for me. Apart from that I really like it and it's really fast.

And the other two features exist if you actually use it for a minute. No, it isn't a Firefox clone.

You can get a list of closed tabs, windows, and tabs from other windows from the new tab page. (It's on the bottom).

There is no status bar, since the feature is entirely useless in a web browser (or anything, really). When it is actually being used for something other than saying "Done" (about 2% of the time, maybe) a little bubble appears at the bottom. Ongoing downloads, blocked popups and such things appear in the same fashion.
Granted, the pane for ongoing downloads is pretty huge, but it can be dismissed happily and it is there, on the bottom (where a status bar would be in a lesser application), straight out of the box. You can also open the Download manager in a tab. (Ohboy, tabs!).

The History view works really well, too. You can search the contents of visited pages (instead of just titles and urls). It's instantaneous to open and to output results.

It's not that I think you need to use Chromium or Chrome, but actually looking at the thing you are writing about would go a long way.

[denver]

Until it gets adblock, undo closed tab and a download statusbar then it is not for me. Apart from that I really like it and it's really fast.

Crap man! You took the EXACT words out of my mouth! Freaky stuff! :D

[Bölvaður]

undo closed tab and a download statusbar
for reopening closed tabs right click on the titlebar and select Reopen Closed Tabs
and the statusbar has always been there since I started using chromium 2 months ago. You also have a page to see what is being downloaded and the process of it.

[pwnst*r]

It wont come out I dont think, screw Chrome anyway.

wow. google must have upset you.

[Shibblet]

Does anyone know when Google Chrome is going to be released? Non-Beta?

[MJWitter]

It took Gmail about 5 years to come out of beta, so I wouldn't hold my breath..

[Shibblet]

It took Gmail about 5 years to come out of beta, so I wouldn't hold my breath..

My breath is held because it's already in version 3 for Windows.

[hoppipolla]

My breath is held because it's already in version 3 for Windows.

Yeah I don't think it will be too long either. Although Chromium still has a lil bit of bug-fixing to be done :)

[HappinessNow]

It's just been released for Windows. Where is the Linux version?!?!
Thanks for the update alert but it appears I have the latest Google Chrome already: 3.0.195.21

Best Web Browser to date in a Windows environment.

[hoppipolla]

Thanks for the update alert but it appears I have the latest Google Chrome already: 3.0.195.21

Best Web Browser to date in a Windows environment.

I don't understand - do you mean you have the latest Chrome running on Linux? o.O

[HappinessNow]

i don't understand - do you mean you have the latest chrome running on linux? O.o


best web browser to date in a windows environment.

xp

[hoppipolla]

xp

But wasn't he talking about the Linux version?

And actually, incidentally, I prefer Chrome(ium) under Linux to under Windows :)

[pwnst*r]

It took Gmail about 5 years to come out of beta, so I wouldn't hold my breath..

sucks to be the best web based email app

[pwnst*r]

But wasn't he talking about the Linux version?

And actually, incidentally, I prefer Chrome(ium) under Linux to under Windows :)

i don't.

[hoppipolla]

i don't.

Why? ._.

I find it faster, more attractive and smoother ._.

I also think the Speed Dial looks much better!

Although of course there was a little gap when I didn't use Chrome (maybe a month or so) so I guess the Windows version could have improved in the meantime! :)

[pwnst*r]

it's not any of those under ubuntu for me. maybe i need to upgrade my *nix version, but my windows version is much better.

[HappinessNow]

It's just been released for Windows. Where is the Linux version?!?!


But wasn't he talking about the Linux version?

And actually, incidentally, I prefer Chrome(ium) under Linux to under Windows :)

I don't think a Linux version of Google Chrome 3 is available yet?

[Khakilang]

Chormium browser downloaded from Ubuntu repo. Currently a beta version. But I had as a second option just in case my firefox crash.

[coldReactive]

from Ubuntu repo

*cough cough*

[ursus262]

I am using Chrome 4 for Ubuntu. It is astonishing fast. I've never seen anything like it before. I also use Opera 10, which is also fast, but not as fast as Chrome. Pages load instantly. The only thing it doesn't have is a windows media codec for playing windows media streaming files. I guess that will come in time though.

[hoppipolla]

I am using Chrome 4 for Ubuntu. It is astonishing fast. I've never seen anything like it before. I also use Opera 10, which is also fast, but not as fast as Chrome. Pages load instantly. The only thing it doesn't have is a windows media codec for playing windows media streaming files. I guess that will come in time though.

I think, to alleviate confusion preemptively, you mean Chromium not Chrome :)

[Shibblet]

I think, to alleviate confusion preemptively, you mean Chromium not Chrome :)

I know you were talking to someone else, but I am going to interject.

I mean Chrome. Hence the title of the thread.

Google Chrome is supposedly releasing their browser for Linux. When is the question.

[ursus262]

Sorry chaps. Just to make it clear, I was talking about Google Chrome v4, which has recently been released. The Ubuntu download, also inserts the repository into your sources file so that it will update automatically whenever a new development is incorporated.

[hoppipolla]

I know you were talking to someone else, but I am going to interject.

I mean Chrome. Hence the title of the thread.

Google Chrome is supposedly releasing their browser for Linux. When is the question.

Yes but he doesn't use Chrome for Linux. He is using Chromium for Linux :)

[hoppipolla]

Sorry chaps. Just to make it clear, I was talking about Google Chrome v4, which has recently been released. The Ubuntu download, also inserts the repository into your sources file so that it will update automatically whenever a new development is incorporated.

Serious!? But I thought it was still in this development stage O.O

Where do I download Google Chrome for Ubuntu from then? o.O

[ursus262]

And it can be downloaded here:

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

And this does, actually download Google Chrome and install the repositories

[hoppipolla]

And it can be downloaded here:

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

And this does, actually download Google Chrome and install the repositories

Awesome thank you!

So which is better at the moment on Linux - Chrome or Chromium? O.O

[hoppipolla]

I'm on Chrome! I'm on Chrome! ^_^

Thank you ursus262 - I stand very much corrected! :)


EDIT -- Ok I'm back on Chromium now as Chrome wouldn't sign in to Twitter ._. lol

I'm sure it will soon, they're just development releases so they're not gonna be perfect are they? :)

[doorknob60]

Screw version 3, I'm running 4.0.219.3 According to my Worpress useragent plugin :P http://doorknob60.is-a-geek.org/wordpress/?p=3#comments (Yeah, that means the Chromium versions do correspond to the Chrome versions to some extent)

[chriskin]

It's just been released for Windows. Where is the Linux version?!?!

excuse me? i'm on version 4.0.213.1

also, i remove a comment i have made before, chrome is better than chromium
if nothing else is to be checked, chrome can display pictures when clicking on UF's thumbnails - chromium can't

[Regenweald]

Chrome is a snapshot of chromium at any point further developed for speed and stability for general public release. If you are using the chromium nightly ppa then you are ahead of chrome. Having installed Chrome3 on a friends laptop recently and using 4.0.219.3 on my machine, I can say that the experience is basically the same. I'm no V8 engine expert so I can't talk on that.

[chriskin]

Chrome is a snapshot of chromium at any point further developed for speed and stability for general public release. If you are using the chromium nightly ppa then you are ahead of chrome. Having installed Chrome3 on a friends laptop recently and using 4.0.219.3 on my machine, I can say that the experience is basically the same. I'm no V8 engine expert so I can't talk on that.

what about clicking on thumbnails on ubuntu forums? or editing posts? chromium just hangs there for me

[chriskin]

double post

[hoppipolla]

what about clicking on thumbnails on ubuntu forums? or editing posts? chromium just hangs there for me

Can you sign into Twitter on Chrome for Linux? I can't ._.

And yeah I'm aware you may not use Twitter lol... I wish there was a way to test this o.O

[chriskin]

Can you sign into Twitter on Chrome for Linux? I can't ._.

And yeah I'm aware you may not use Twitter lol... I wish there was a way to test this o.O

i have a twitter account even though i never sign into it
let me check :)

edit : yep, google chrome signed into it without any problem at all

[hoppipolla]

i have a twitter account even though i never sign into it
let me check :)

edit : yep, google chrome signed into it without any problem at all

STRANGE..

I'll try again at some point later on :)

[Regenweald]

what about clicking on thumbnails on ubuntu forums? or editing posts? chromium just hangs there for me

Me also, still have to open editing In a new tab, have not tested thumbnails yet, but flash support is way better. Opened some thumbnails over on Haiku's site flawlessly so it may be site related. Not sure though.

[Shibblet]

Okay, so Google Chrome is in version 4 for Linux? Why does it still have problems then? Or are we talking about Chromium? Geez, this is confusing.

[vishzilla]

Chrome:Chromium :: Firefox:Minefield

Chromium you get more bleeding edge via their daily builds, while Chrome is updated after every significant stable Chromium build.

Chromium is in version 4 in Linux.

Oh yea, I am using Chromium right now as my default browser. I miss my Fx extensions atm but who cares, Speed is bliss. :D

[cb951303]

also AFAIK chrome is not open source. they take the chromium source, add branding and some other stuff (bookmark sync?) and hen release it as chrome.

btw I've just tried chromium and it's really in good shape. i might switch to it as my main browser before firefox gives me brain cancer.

[chriskin]

Chrome:Chromium :: Firefox:Minefield

Chromium you get more bleeding edge via their daily builds, while Chrome is updated after every significant stable Chromium build.

Chromium is in version 4 in Linux.

Oh yea, I am using Chromium right now as my default browser. I miss my Fx extensions atm but who cares, Speed is bliss. :D

you can find some rather nice extensions for chrome or chromium as well from here
http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/chrome-plugins/chrome-extensions-bookmarklets-userscripts-compilation-7510.html

[coldReactive]

you can find some rather nice extensions for chrome or chromium as well from here
http://www.chromeplugins.org/google/chrome-plugins/chrome-extensions-bookmarklets-userscripts-compilation-7510.html

Would rather have NoScript than AdBlock, Adsweep or Flashblock

[Shibblet]

And it can be downloaded here:

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

And this does, actually download Google Chrome and install the repositories

Looks like that did it. Download the deb package, and it adds the repositories itself.

It is version 4 also.