Any luck running Google Chrome on Wine?

[knowmonger]

I donno guys.Chrome doesn't seem to be "just another" browser. It has some serious memory management features which I think, will work only in a native run environment. Since its Open Source, I'm sure someone must have figured out a way to port it to Linux.

I'm looking for that kinda stuff. Anyway, this is great too. I tried it. I works.

[hikaricore]

I think I'll just sit this one out and wait for the Linux release. ^_^

[dreamnid]

env WINEPREFIX="/home/YOURUSERNAME/.wine" wine "C:\windows\profiles\YOURUSERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

replace YOURUSERNAME with your user name (both of them)

enjoy

// GonzoDark

I got the same problem where the launcher does not work (pages will not load), yet typing the exact same command in terminal works fine.

I tried both
env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

and

env WINEPREFIX="/home/dreamnid/.wine" wine "c:\windows\profiles\dreamnid\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

any ideas?

[chocbar31]

I got the same problem where the launcher does not work (pages will not load), yet typing the exact same command in terminal works fine.

I tried both
env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

and

env WINEPREFIX="/home/dreamnid/.wine" wine "c:\windows\profiles\dreamnid\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins

any ideas?

I tried different commands also, but the one that worked was:

wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/$USER/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe" --no-sandbox --new-http

Eventhough Google Chrome works for me now, the above command successfully launches chrome. I even tried the commands you have posted and they don't work for me.

Just copy-n-paste!

[munkiepus]

There's now an easier way to run chrome on linux thanks to the folks at code weavers,

http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/


you can get the 32 bit ubuntu deb here:
http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/cro...9.0-1_i386.deb

or the 64 bit ubuntu deb here:
http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/cro....0-1_amd64.deb

i've not tested them myself yet as i'm at work but i'll try it out when i get home and report back.

[MaverickCoast]

Well, sort of.

I have the 7.3 mb ChromeInstaller.exe file if someone has a place to put it for everyone to access. Seems that every link I clicked on was either a dead link or a link to the smaller kb file that won't work.

I DOWNLOADED THIS FILE VIA WINDOWS.

E-mail me or respond here with a location to upload the file to and I will get the file uploaded. I don't have a file sharing site that I use.

As far as I could find out, the best way to get Chrome installed, is to use a full .exe installation file and tweak your wine with this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=908493&page=5

[PaulusDev]

Does anyone have trouble scrolling?
I have released a program for Windows which modifies chrome.dll to fix the issue (in Windows).
I just wanted to share it with you in case it can be of any use...I could even compile it for Ubuntu but since it fixes a Window only (at the moment) program, I am assuming there is no need.

Read more/download at:
http://digg.com/software/Google_Chrome_68

[Roaring Silence]

If anyone is still having trouble with winetricks here's a list of directory's I had to chown with my username

~/.winetrickscache
~/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp

Hope this helps someone

Thanx. This helped me.
Roaring Silence

[harry2006]

hi all, i installed chrome via wine couple of weeks ago. i must agree that its not at par with its windows counterpart. it takes really hell of time for a page to show up. but the its working atleast. so if you are really eager for chrome it seems we have to wait for some more time for a true deb/rpm/... release of Chrome. hope it'll be up to its expectations...till then happy firefoxing!!!

[Tichondrius]

That is exactly the reason I use Windows as the primary (host) OS, and run Linux as a guest in a virtual machine. That and gaming and better hardware support.

P.S. firefox is a piece of trash, Chrome is awesome, it never crashes. But it badly needs mouse gestures