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- kierucom, on 05/28/2009, -5/+27It's not Google's Chromium browser... it's a browser based on Chromium, which happens to be the basis for Google Chrome. Pretty sure (and please correct me if I am wrong), but Google has nothing to do with the development of these Chromium Project browsers.
- jakereilly, on 05/28/2009, -0/+18That browser would be rock solid.
- nitinsatish, on 05/28/2009, -3/+20Waiting for Beta !
- furntree, on 05/28/2009, -3/+15Dugg for the Developer using the term *****
- warp99, on 05/28/2009, -0/+10It's very fast on Ubuntu using the PPA repository builds but there's no Java, SSL, flash, plug-ins, etc., so it's not viable right now. With every update I check the progress, which is coming along nicely. Just more competition to up the game in the browser space.
- harrisbradley, on 05/28/2009, -0/+9Waiting for Add-ons !
- RoboDonut, on 05/28/2009, -2/+11I don't agree with this developer at all.
"I've not heard anyone glow about how they can create the coolest looking UIs with GTK."
We don't need "cool looking". We need consistent and functional. GTK+ and QT are both consistent and functional. You can use QT to render GTK+ widgets, and you can use GTK+ themes in QT. There aren't any desktop integration problems as long as you use one of the two major toolkits.
This "lets make our software as flashy as possible because the user's desktop is like a free billboard" mindset represents everything that is wrong with software development for the Windows platform.
And what's his suggestion for remedying this "*****"? Create a whole new UI toolkit specifically for their web browser? ***** brilliant.
"For those who are unaware, Ben Goodger is a former employee of Mozilla and used to be the lead developer of the Firefox project."
Which is probably why the Firefox 1.X UI was always such a mess in Linux. I'm guessing that Firefox 2.0 finally supporting GTK+ properly has something to do with this jackass moving to Google. - winry, on 05/28/2009, -2/+9!
- commentbot, on 05/28/2009, -3/+10Waiting for RC1 !
- willhirsch, on 05/28/2009, -0/+7Er, I'm pretty sure that is indeed wrong. Chromium is the name of the project and Chrome is the name of any browser that's built from it and released by Google. The source code, bug reporting system and everything between is hosted in the same place as the Windows development and Google employees are most definitely working on the Linux port.
As far as I can make out, the code for Windows, OSX and Linux alike is written together and builds are compiled using the correct bits of non-shared code as specified at http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/bu ... - bretkuhns, on 05/28/2009, -0/+6There's a reason why Chromium is in Alpha still, genius.
- RetroRufio, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5You can get the latest builds here...
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-r ...
They're on build 17077 now, I'm using it and it's pretty good! - Nephersir7, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5The Chromium project was created by Google and is developped mainly by Google employees. It is open-source.
From the Chromium Blog:
"Google takes this source code, and adds on the Google name and logo, an auto-updater system called GoogleUpdate, and RLZ (described later in this post), and calls this Google Chrome"
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chr ... - Nephersir7, on 05/28/2009, -0/+5Maybe making the browser functionnal was higher on the priority list than implementing the flash plugin.
- v4vishal, on 05/28/2009, -0/+4When Google's Chrome web browser debuted with much fanfare last year, it was not Windows-only and not cross-platform compatible.
.. er, you mean Windows-only..right? - MadHarvey, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3Hey look! A barely used acrostic just waiting to be filled in!
Waiting for Extensions !
I don't know why I made this an acrostic !
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S - Curufir, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3It doesn't pass my vanilla ice-cream test either, therefore it must be broken!
AFAIK Acid3 link test (correct me if I'm wrong) puts an anchor on a page pointing at a URL, loads the page pointed at by the anchor and checks to see if the anchor state has become "visited". If it isn't then the test is failed. Since the behaviour of anchors in this situation isn't clearly stated in the specification, and Acid3 is supposed to test adherence to the specification in corner cases, it's meaningless which is why you can score 100/100 without it.
Now about that vanilla ice-cream test... - theaceoffire, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3Still, it will be nice to have another really fast alternative browser on Linux.
- moo2u2, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3I enjoy Opera, it's nice and lightweight
but still excited for the Chrome port! - c00l2sv, on 05/28/2009, -1/+4It's amazingly fast, isn't it?!?!
- wissler, on 05/28/2009, -1/+4So sick of firefox on Ubuntu, I'll be glad when this is out.
- Encephalon, on 05/28/2009, -1/+3What's the status on a Mac build? I'm signed up for their so-called "newsletter" and I've never received any news or status updates on how it's coming along.
- Thoku, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2I just ran Acid3 with the latest build from the Launchpad PPA and whilst the browser gets 100/100 it does not pass the Acid3 test. It displays both the "X" in the top right hand corner, the message "LINKTEST FAILED" is displayed just below the "100/100" and the animation isn't perfectly smooth.
However, it is better than:
Firefox 3.0.10 - 71/100
Opera 9.64 - 85/100
All run on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64.
Also, not until Chrome (Chromium on Linux or whatever it is!) can compete with Firefox's plugin system I don't think I'll change. I'd be running Opera if it wasn't for Ubiquity and Ad Block Plus. - willhirsch, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2In other news, the 2 other gtk webkit browsers have EXISTED for ages...
- jmdsdf, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2This allow me to browse a website for work that I previously had to run IE6 or IE7 under Wine. Neither Opera nor Firefox can do this. This build is well worth installing for me, JUST for that feature. Kudos to the developers!
- antdude, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2Waiting for v2, SP2, etc. :P
- nunofgs, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2http://instantrimshot.com/
- willhirsch, on 05/28/2009, -0/+11) I bet you didn't say that when Firefox started to compete with IE. Five years later and you can't see why a browser with a superior UI and smaller resource footprint could be successful?
2) You'd use the ad blocking extension for Chrome that's already on its way. Maybe when Firefox hasn't been in the wild for over 5 times longer than Chrome we can start to compare the two browsers... - RobotBuddha, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1"I can handle IE or Chrome in windows using privoxy to block the ads but what would I do in Linux?"
The linux build of privoxy? - Baryn, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Well, keep in mind that Google is targeting IE users. And Chrome is like IE, except scorching fast and standards compliant.
- GavinZac, on 06/05/2009, -0/+1Because it's ugly?
- wejmahtin, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2That's damned near worthless... I could also give you a stone tablet and you could etch out your URLs on that...
- ThatsNotPudding, on 06/06/2009, -0/+1I can't get too jazzed about an advertising platform from an advertising company, as I suspect keeping ads (and user information back to Google) blocked will be a full time job after every minor update.
- BoneStamp, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1I agree, although I'm looking forward to threaded tabs in the next firefox release... that's about the only useful thing Chrome's got on them.
- fuzzybad, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Looking forward to Chrome going cross-platform! Competition in browsers is good -- not to mention it makes this web developer's life much easier if I don't have to track down a Windows PC for cross-browser testing!
- RetroRufio, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1As a Mac user, I would assume you're accustom to tyrannical software releases ;)
- RobotBuddha, on 05/31/2009, -0/+1It's not working by design. It picks up existing plugins fine, but being such a prime target for browser crashes they want to get into that later in the testing game.
- cantormath, on 06/01/2009, -0/+1If google wants standardization, they can work on that. It doesn't mean much hearing complaints about a GPL project when Google Chrome is under the BSD license. I will pick Firefox over Chrome EVERY time as long as Chrome is under the BSD license.
- Thoku, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Hmm, I was under the impression that the tests were written to abide by the standards otherwise it would make it pointless?
Everything is/was in the standards.
From wiki so it must be true:
"Controversially, it includes several elements from the CSS2 recommendation that were later removed in CSS2.1 but reintroduced in W3C CSS3 working drafts that have not made it to candidate recommendations yet."
Is this what you were referring to Curufir? - Curufir, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1If you take a look at the CSS1, CSS2/2.1 and CSS3 (candidate) specifications then there's nothing in there to definitively cover the test scenario. The way Webkit handles visited links is perfectly acceptable, especially when you consider the pain it would be to check/update the status of links on all currently loaded pages every time a new URL gets used (e.g. page load, iframe load, frame load, gif load, etc).
The sad thing is that to stop getting "The browser fails Acid3!" (which isn't what the test says) bug reports someone will probably patch it so that the browser passes the test. The reason I say that's sad is because at that point the browser is being written to pass the test, not to implement the specification. - nadadingsda, on 05/30/2009, -0/+1Agreed, I never understood why they didn't use Qt for Chrome.
- Swipecat, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2GTK+ is the GIMP Toolkit (i.e. the toolkit of the graphics editor) not the Gnome Toolkit, so it wouldn't feel any more "native" on Gnome than KDE or any other Linux desktop.
- theaceoffire, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1Look at me! I use free software!
I am so much dumber than someone who steals it!
Oh woe is me, why didn't I steal a $400 program to add "LoL" subtitles to my images?!? - tomach, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1gnome use gtk+, kde use qt. almost always gtk+ shows limitations when translating a qt(4) theme to gtk+ theme. looks out of place, and cruddy. _Work Together_ GTK+ and Qt devs. plox
- seenxu, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1try midori, it is more usable than the current linux chromium.
- theaceoffire, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1When
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eventually. - DreadKnight, on 05/29/2009, -2/+2Buried for GTK+ usage. Have fun witting the interface for each OS!
- mobling, on 05/28/2009, -1/+1Or what. You will write a better one?
- kelyar, on 05/28/2009, -1/+1waiting
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