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- YodaJones, on 09/28/2008, -1/+111We don't want no stinking WINE version. Dudes, we want NATIVE Chrome for Linux.
- trodemaster, on 09/28/2008, -11/+99Lame, just the windows version wrapped up in wine..
- infiniphunk, on 09/28/2008, -2/+34Yeah I'll hold off until there is a native version too. Besides, Firefox does everything I want anyway.
- tama00, on 09/28/2008, -2/+32I want a native version!
- TeacherOfHeroes, on 09/28/2008, -1/+23The description said it was done by codeweavers, so its not like it was intentionally deceptive...
- gerryk, on 09/28/2008, -5/+21Inaccurate
- badassninja, on 09/28/2008, -1/+16I installed this early this morning. For being a wine wrap it works pretty good. The only reason I couldn't use it all of the time right now is, I don't think I can use flash with it. Also... no ad block... the internet sucks with out it.
- rtaibah, on 05/22/2009, -3/+16Ok then good luck with: wine ./ChromeSetup.exe then ;)
- rtaibah, on 05/22/2009, -3/+15Well this is just a temp solution, of course this is not enough. Actually Chrome itself is not all that, it needs a lot of work still.
- Atomic1fire, on 09/28/2008, -2/+14Not exactly new news though, since they have had this information out since September 15th,
So just understand that this is not exactly any new development, but a 1 or 2 week old topic brought up again - zachimal, on 09/28/2008, -1/+13Warning: Chromium should not be used as a main browser, it is not stable enough. From Codeweaver’s Faqs:
Q. Should I run CrossOver Chromium as my main browser?
A. Absolutely not! This is just a proof of concept, for fun, and to showcase what Wine can do. Chromium itself is just beginning. As the Chromium project progresses, they will be providing more compelling support for Mac OS and Linux, particularly with process security and memory management. Those future versions from Chromium will be better suited for daily use than this version. - giskard88, on 09/28/2008, -1/+11um, no. Firefox is in many ways a better browser. yes, chrome has a really great sand boxing model, and the UI is great under windows, but there's a bunch of features like extensions that aren't available in chrome, and if i can't use an ad blocker, i'm not interested.
- atgmac, on 09/28/2008, -5/+15No 128x128 icon.
Has a windows cursor.
Doesn't work with spaces.
Doesn't work with expose.
Completely useless as an everyday browser.
Pathetic. - themonkman, on 09/28/2008, -2/+11It's buggy as hell on Mac, and Linux. On the Mac, if you put the mouse inside the browser window, it interprets it as if you were trying to move the entire window. You cannot select anything, or even begin to type in a web address.
This is totally inaccurate. It's Windows "Chrome" running on stripped down Wine/CX Office. - dn11, on 09/28/2008, -1/+10a lot of employees at google use Linux and OS X - it's only a matter of time. I'm guessing they released the Windows version first to give them the largest market for early testing The first release for Linux and OS X will probably be an much better than the first Windows release.
- evanct, on 09/28/2008, -2/+10i was getting all excited too. "Boy Wine has matured!" killed it.
- Clbull, on 09/28/2008, -1/+9Its RUNNING on Linux and Mac. Sure they used Wine but its running nonetheless.
- localzuk, on 09/28/2008, -0/+8Google Picasa and Google Earth are done via Wine aren't they? Or at least, they were when they ported them originally.
- WizNo, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7Flash can be installed easily, and is explained by rovr138 in a comment under the post:
I installed this about a week ago. The only thing missing was flash.
I fixed that by downloading the Flash xpi. (The xpi can be found using Google. Search for flash xpi. The download link is from macromedia.com.)
Changed the extension from xpi to zip. Extracted the file, located NPSWF32.dll and moved it to
~/.cxchromium/chromium/drive_c/chromium/plugins
I hope that helps anyone trying to use the browser. - infiniphunk, on 09/28/2008, -1/+8The idea that child processes are forked for individual tabs in Crome is very attractive, but again, let's look at total package here. There are a few Firefox extensions that I find very valuable; they have drastically improved my web-browsing.
- morphinapg, on 09/28/2008, -2/+9very likely, it's how google does things
- skidzilla, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7Crashes nearly every 10 minutes for me, very unstable. But then the fact they got it running at all in just 11 days is pretty awesome, even though it's slow and crashy.
- solidus636, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7Stuff from Google always stays in beta. That way if anything ever messes up, they can just say it's still in beta and has a few bugs and nobody can say anything.
Smart people. - bsmang, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7Lame to refer to it as "ported to Linux" when using Wine. Good that they did it - and they did a good job. They made it into a nice little package that you can install just like any other (no "wine ./ChromeSetup.exe"). Still, the native Linux version will be a whole different story.
- blackjack75, on 09/28/2008, -0/+6Hint: if you're on a mac. Just use Webkit. It's basically the same rendering engine, has a comparable javascript engine (in terms of speed). The only thing you'd miss is the memory protection but I doubt Wine's stability will make that shine much.
- HonoredMule, on 09/28/2008, -0/+6Chromium may be good, but it's no Wonderflonium.
- manitoba98xp, on 09/28/2008, -0/+6@Giga
And also the UI, which uses a Windows-only library (WTL). - dn11, on 09/28/2008, -2/+8a lot of programs that are ported to linux are essentially the same thing
- mickstephenson, on 09/28/2008, -2/+8I personally don't want Google Chrome at all on linux, it wont use native gtk (or qt) libraries and will stick on like a saw thumb, it will have issues with copy and paste (even Firefox does, try copying something to the clipboard and then closing firefox). We have our own browsers in the works that run on webkit, and will integrate much better than this. Epiphany and Midori on gnome and xfce, and Konqueror on kde.
Gnome is constantly working towards an integrated web-centric desktop. People jumping on the bandwagon with programs like this is just getting in the way of that.
A perfect example of doing it right is the telepathy framework and empathy instant messenger. On the next version of Gnome (next release of ubuntu) you will see how this integrated this program is with Gnome, most noticeably the user agent switcher but also gnome keyring. - DemiRonin, on 09/28/2008, -2/+7Uhh...I guess we'll wait
- motters, on 09/28/2008, -3/+8I don't want to run Windows applications on Linux. I want to run Linux applications on Linux, with no Microsoft contamination. Until there is a proper Linux version I'll not even try using Google's browser.
- morphinapg, on 09/28/2008, -1/+6In time, my friend, in time
- Swipecat, on 09/28/2008, -0/+5This linux/wine version does work -- and yes it shows how good wine is -- but the mismatch with the O/S makes it hard work to use compared to a native browser like firefox for linux. It's suitable as a technology demonstration only.
- sx66gns, on 09/28/2008, -1/+6Not interested in a wine wrapped browser , Games & Winblows apps is a completely different matter.
- mickstephenson, on 09/28/2008, -0/+5Like what? I'm not doubting you, but what? I rarely see anything ported to linux from windows, The only one I know of is Nero and it is just a complete rewrite with linux libraries. Alot of games are ported to mac this way though.
- BlackJacket, on 09/28/2008, -1/+5I just installed and tested this download for Ubuntu 64-bit. Installs with no issues, and starts reasonably fast. I was more impressed with Google Chrome's speed in Windows Vista than I was with Crossover Chromium.
Chromium browsers the web quickly, but Flash and Java support were not immediately available. Since the code is using Wine, I attempted using Macromedia's Flash plugin, which installed, but does not seem to be tied tightly enough into WIne to actually be of any use. I assume someone is working on this problem. I wouldn't bet that becoming dependent on the flash and java support that Firefox uses would make the code any leaner.
I can't image people would find Chromium to be of any use without basic support like flash (i.e. No Youtube! No Diggnation! No Hulu!)
Its fast, and uses multiple processes for each tab. Thats great... It doesn't seamlessly support Java or Flash. It probably handles other web applications such as, oh, Google Docs, just fine. Its not for "home" use yet.
Also! Hey! No Live Bookmarks? WTF? - Perc, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4The Mac version of Chrome can't be very far off. Google themselves used it in the Android walkthrough video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qbPa1O8Ys skip to 1:54. - brad016, on 09/28/2008, -5/+9Google if you decide no to make a native version of Chrome for Mac and Linux A huge peice of my respect for Google will break away, just make native version, and leave the experimenting to Codeweavers. Please
- Clbull, on 09/28/2008, -1/+5A native version is coming soon.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -2/+6Interesting that Chrome, based on Webkit, which is developed on and for Macs in the first place as a back end of Safari, must be run under abridged emulation on...a Mac. Go go gadget google.
- Giga, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4It's not the rendering engine that requires the emulation layer. It's the security model that causes the most portability issues.
- thePTS, on 09/28/2008, -0/+4"but it doesn't run many things that well or even at all"
correction; it does run many things surprisingly well. when did you last test it?
Yes, wine has it's flaws, but keep in mind it's a reverse engineering of an entire OS. The wine project could easily be compared to the linux kernel project in terms of scope. Imo it's already impressive and has a huge potential. - MrChunks, on 09/28/2008, -0/+3"At least until IE8's implementation of WebKit matures."
Eh? - TheCoreh, on 09/28/2008, -1/+4^ Wine is Not an Emulation layer.
- MtheoryX, on 09/28/2008, -0/+3"Chrome would have the javascript engine advantage over Safari"
Well not for long. WebKit nightlies FTW. - blakestah, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2Chrome would have the javascript engine advantage over Safari, and the wrapper application. I like Chrome's wrapper a lot more than Safari's. Presumably Safari will port to the Chrome Javascript implementation which would make it more of a wash.
But this current Chromium on OS X is practically unusable at this point. - RangerRick, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2It already ran on Wine immediately. Some folks got it working in Ubuntu, and I used those instructions to do the same on mac: http://www.raccoonfink.com/2008/09/google-chrome-o ...
- loyx, on 09/28/2008, -1/+3wine is not an emulator
- toaster13, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2Buried. Slapping $X into wine is not porting. Its a kludge.
- inactive, on 09/28/2008, -1/+3Unfortunately, since they've gone the Wine route, its the entire thing which requires the emulation layer, whether each component in it needs it or not.
This is just blatant laziness. Covering webkit in chrome is like covering an ariel atom with seven hundred tons of wet cement. But I promise the car will be secure in there. -
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