Linux Available today in beta: Google Chrome for Linux!

[baccilus]

Just got this in a mail from Google today. Check it out:
Google Chrome

 

[sidx19]

Yeah I wrote about it yesterday on my website... Doen't have all the features like th chrome for xp.. its available for mac also...
here's the link: High On Tech. Again: Mac and Linux get Chrome.

 

[Dark Star]

Tested and using it now Pretty slick and does the job more efficiently

 

[Gaurish]

Will shift once, the extensions that I use with firefox gets ported to Chrome. till then, firefox rocks.

Btw, The xcd style comic strip is cool; Google never fails to surprise

 

[phoenix844884]

I haven't tested it as yet, but from what my friend is telling me it is super fast!

 

[vishalrao]

im getting a sense of deja vu... isnt this like months old news? i have been running chrome on linux (ok - dev version)... plus i recall xkcd-like comic explaining the browser when it was first announced way back when on windows...

 

[archish]

Chrome is slick and good but needs some time before its more polished

I feel linux chrome should have more features going forward compared to windoze ver since the Chromium OS is based of this

 

[blufox]

proxy setting execptions does not work properly.

even worse it does not accepts regexs like firefox.

Did anyone succed in this?

 

[Boot_Comp]

Chrome is slick and good but needs some time before its more polished
I feel linux chrome should have more features going forward compared to windoze ver since the Chromium OS is based of this

Slightly OT: I'm confused why everyone (including goog) is calling an OS with just their Chrome browser 'Chrome OS'.

If it is an OS, why is it running on another OS (linux)?
And if it is an OS then shouldn't goog be giving customers the ability to choose their browser i.e. Firefox / IE / Opera etc. (since MS is being forced to do the same on Windows)? Or is goog waiting for an anti-trust case before doing so?

 

[Dark Star]

^^Linux is not OS Its Gnu/Linux that makes an Os .Linux is just the base of the OS i.e. Kernel which thrives the OS

Using Linux as the base saves million of Google, also the outstanding development in Linux git make sure that Chrome runs with much less effort, all google needs to do is improve Kernel and implement their tweaks here and there in Chrome Ofcourse they are on publicity bandwagon

 

[Boot_Comp]

Then they should be calling it just another distro (just like the several others).

I didn't think goog would go about with such a cheap publicity stunt. Disappointing.

Also shouldn't they give users the choice of their own browser?

 

[Yondaime]

its kinda framing when you scroll !!

needs alot of tweaking to be done

 

[Saddhu]

does it work in normal Intel / AMD systems or only in some netbooks

 

[blufox]

^^Linux is not OS Its Gnu/Linux that makes an Os .Linux is just the base of the OS i.e. Kernel which thrives the OS

Using Linux as the base saves million of Google, also the outstanding development in Linux git make sure that Chrome runs with much less effort, all google needs to do is improve Kernel and implement their tweaks here and there in Chrome Ofcourse they are on publicity bandwagon

Linux is the only OS not GNU/Linux.
Kernel as we speak for Linux kernel is the OS.

GNU/Linux what FSF advocates call it is the whole thing and includes OS + user space applications.

does it work in normal Intel / AMD systems or only in some netbooks

It works on both and is not limited to netbooks.

its kinda framing when you scroll !!
needs alot of tweaking to be done

It works fine for me here .
Are you sure you are not running X over vesa/other generic X driver?

Works fine for me on nvidia binary blob.