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- stoanhart, on 04/06/2009, -5/+105Maybe the submitter should have read the text in the screenshot before posting. THIS IS NOT GOOGLE CHROME!
- davenullus, on 04/06/2009, -4/+49Not quite Chrome. Chromium is the basis for Google's Chrome, and Google is not very involved with this project, other than the use of the code. And yes, this is very much an alpha project, tab support is not there, most things don't work, or break in odd ways. Do not expect this to be great, yet. Install it, and help out if you want, and it will be. But expecting this to be Chrome is definately not what you should use as the reason to download. Do not knock these guys, they warn you when you launch it that this is not Chrome, and never will be, it is Chromium.
- trogdoor, on 04/06/2009, -2/+47Funny how in the screenshot they give the window is sized so that one paragraph isn't visable, but you wouldn't notice it if you didn't know to look. This is obviously just a happy coincidence but I thought people might be curious about what the screenshot in the blog doesn't show after the warnings about Chromium being pre-alpha and not to file bugs:
Blogging about it is not helpful:
Chromium's problem is not a lack of media attention, but an excess of it. Coverage encourages people to try it out in this incomplete state which only creates negative first impressions. Also, dealing with misunderstandings/questions etc only distracts the team from the job of improving it.
Likewise, keep in mind that we won't see your comments if they're on a random blog somewhere. - inactive, on 04/06/2009, -5/+35Chromium != Chrome.
Fail. - Cupantae, on 04/06/2009, -1/+22Not news (3 weeks old).
Not Chrome (Chromium). - inactive, on 04/06/2009, -4/+19because it sucks more than it doesn't. Maybe I don't need 5 different media players, I don't write scripts, I don't use Linux to it's full potential, but I refuse to be a slave to someone who would not let his family get an Iphone, just because HE does not make it....
- Cupantae, on 04/06/2009, -1/+14You care. You wrote a comment. Like it or not, it matters to you.
- inactive, on 04/06/2009, -12/+24firefox is still my choice
- SpikeX, on 04/06/2009, -0/+11Uh, wasn't Google the company who initially started the Chromium project and put quite a bit of work into it?
- depro9, on 04/06/2009, -0/+11This will best all!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMvR6zdOL8 - SpikeX, on 04/06/2009, -6/+16I still want the Mac version of Chrome. =/
- pukiman, on 04/06/2009, -0/+10Well, this guy already did: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chro ...
And all he did, was just cut out all the tracking ***** that Google pasted everywhere. - RainStreet, on 04/06/2009, -0/+10* !=
- khaosx2030, on 04/06/2009, -2/+11Perhaps the community will manage to make a better Chrome than Google.
Still needs a lot of work. - SpikeX, on 04/06/2009, -1/+9While this isn't Chrome (and I agree), the actual statement in the title, "Google Chrome on Linux is coming" is not false, since Google has in fact promised a Linux and Mac version of Chrome.
- MattBD, on 04/06/2009, -1/+7The kernel is a hell of a lot more stable than the Windows NT kernel. I've never once had a kernel panic in two years of using Linux, but I've had plenty of BSOD's in Vista, which are roughly equivalent.
- arbulus, on 04/06/2009, -2/+8Buried as inaccurate. The article clearly states (as does the text in the browser in the screenshot) that this is NOT Google Chrome, this is Chromium. Chrome is based on Chromium, but essentially they are separate projects.
Headline is a lie. - trogdoor, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6The metal we usually call chrome is the element chromium; it's a play on words.
- BobCFC, on 04/06/2009, -0/+6That's a legal trick by the msttcorefonts package to take the fonts from the free powerpoint viewer not part of chromium
- ihateplants, on 04/06/2009, -2/+8This has nothing to do with Chrome, or Google. Whoever titled this is an idiot trying to trick people into reading his article.
- pHr34kY, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Who says they're releasing one now?
- amoore2600, on 04/06/2009, -0/+5Midori ROCKS!
- Wayfarer12, on 04/06/2009, -4/+9Umm, this isn't Google Chrome. It's Chromium!
- ArthurSucks, on 04/07/2009, -0/+5I don't want to spend $300 for a lame OS when I have an awesome one.
- zedomax, on 04/06/2009, -1/+5This has been around since the launch of Google Chrome btw. :)
- kevdawg, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4No, it may not be Google Chrome but it's Chromium which is very much like Google Chrome without the "Google".
http://code.google.com/chromium/ - jpjandrade, on 04/06/2009, -1/+5Awesome bar > any other browser avaible right now. Until it is available in other browsers, I will use Firefox.
- MattBD, on 04/06/2009, -1/+5No it doesn't. Have you never tried Chrome?
- fluxion, on 04/06/2009, -0/+4true, but i'd imagine a fully functional build of chromium for linux will pretty nearly coincide with google's official Google Chrome linux release
- mrBitch, on 04/07/2009, -0/+4What about a MAC address (Media Access Control address) ?
- hardeep1singh, on 04/07/2009, -0/+3You mean its already on FreeBSD and its called Webkit beta?
- fiddler616, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Pre-alpha releases of Chromium are not news. Let me know when it's in beta.
- gdonald, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3Not if today's build is any sign:
[10741:10741:459313412055:ERROR:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-2.0.173.0~svn20090405r13137/build-tree/src/chrome/common/temp_scaffolding_stubs.cc(194)] Not implemented reached in static bool FirstRun::IsChromeFirstRun()
Warning: Program 'chromium-browser' crashed. - oobuntu, on 04/07/2009, -0/+3"Coverage encourages people to try it out in this incomplete state which only creates negative first impressions."
Sounds the problem we've had since KDE4.0 - rastaman222, on 04/06/2009, -0/+3They've already done this for OSX, a stripped down "look a like" of Chrome, called Stainless. It was halfway decent. I'll give Chromium a shot on my Ubuntu VM but won't give it much of a look if it's anything like Stainless, until it has a version release.
- hardeep1singh, on 04/07/2009, -0/+3How about Vista with IE8?
- tubeguy, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2I tried Chromium on Fedora a while ago, doesn't look like much has changed except it's packaged for Ubuntu. Academically interesting but not ready for prime time.
- Elranzer, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2Why is Chrome for Linux still in pre-alpha? Didn't the original konqueror/WebKit technology start on Linux (and didn't WebKit in particular start on Mac?)
- chuzwuzza, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2Nothing to do with Chrome? Other than the fact that Chromium is the open-source project behind Chrome? I'd say that qualifies it as having *something* to do with it...
- lamejoketeller, on 04/08/2009, -0/+2windows takes ***** ages to boot up, I'm not gonna do that to basically use a safari surrogate
I just want options! Options!
then again I guess if I wanted options I shouldn't have gotten a mac... - trogdoor, on 04/06/2009, -1/+3It looks like he does address this in a comment within the screenshot slideshow:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/photos/chromium-pre-a ...
Apologies for not paying attention to the "blogging about it is not helpful" note, but Chrome is an excellent project and it was bound to happen at some point, right? - Zoness48, on 04/06/2009, -4/+6I heart my firefox for linux still
- sumeshpremraj, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2If that's the case, this damn post is providing false hopes and impressions. I'll try it out nevertheless.
Thanks for letting me know it isn't exactly Chrome. - timfidler, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2The latest update (which I installed last night) now allows you to click on the tabs to switch between them.
- mrBitch, on 04/07/2009, -0/+2@ peabrain, RE: "I think Linux is great for CE or surfing the net or server use- but that is about it. I tried it back in the 90's when I became frustrated with Win 95. I haven't seen anything yet that makes me interested in trying it again."
I think Windows is average for CE (not so much for surfing the net or server use), but that is about it. I tried Windows back in the 90's when I became frustrated with Linux in 1995.
I haven't seen anything yet that makes me interested in trying Windows again. - Laminarcissus, on 04/06/2009, -6/+8Super.
Get back to us if you change your mind, okay? - BobCFC, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2If you get a blank screen install msttcorefonts
- shadowflame, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Dugg for making me think of the Grolsch Advert
- tux11, on 07/23/2009, -0/+1try google chrome unstable brwoser its pretty good.
- stylesP, on 04/08/2009, -0/+1(cut)
wrong place :) -
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