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SoleSoul

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From: Israel

Registered: 2009-06-29

Posts: 319

Chromium hits Extra

Yay!
Wanted to say thank you team!

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

Yeah, that's great, a lot easier then installing dev snapshots all the time Thnx Pierre ! Been waiting for this...

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 705

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

I must say, Chromium runs amazingly smoothly on my netbook, despite its slow SSD. /me happy

Thanks Pierre.

Dead Code

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Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 227

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Its working like a dream. Thanks to pierre

stryder

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 500

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Thanks... have been wanting to try this.

monshin

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Registered: 2008-01-14

Posts: 30

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Thanks! I use ir since it was on testing, and work great!

fluffylime

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From: Russia, Moscow

Registered: 2009-04-03

Posts: 47

Re: Chromium hits Extra

According to PKBUILD, there is a patch, disabling SSE2 to suppport i686.
Now i'm using chromium-browser-bin from AUR, which in turn uses prebuild chromium from it's website (buildbot.chromium.org). Does anybody know whether it uses this patch too?
Also not sure if turning off SSE2 will decrease performance...

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flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Chromium hits Extra

According to PKBUILD, there is a patch, disabling SSE2 to suppport i686.
Now i'm using chromium-browser-bin from AUR, which in turn uses prebuild chromium from it's website (buildbot.chromium.org). Does anybody know whether it uses this patch too?
Also not sure if turning off SSE2 will decrease performance...

It is disabled because SSE2 is not a part of the i686 instruction set. And it causes problems on CPUs without SSE2 support.

fluffylime

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From: Russia, Moscow

Registered: 2009-04-03

Posts: 47

Re: Chromium hits Extra

It is disabled because SSE2 is not a part of the i686 instruction set. And it causes problems on CPUs without SSE2 support.

I know this (may be I was too brief in my previous post, saying "...disabling SSE2 to suppport i686...").
My question was "Are chromium builds from its developers have this patch applied?"

Last edited by fluffylime (2009-12-16 16:29:53)

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ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Ouch... just tried it for a couple of hours and didn't like Chromium at all!

Very glad it's out there so for those that do like it, and of course any competition and ideas spread between browser developers is a good thing.

This user is back to Firefox, at least for now. 

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Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

About the SSE2 thing: Our i686 package has to be build without SSE2 support simply because i686 compatible CPUs might not have these instruction set (e.g. Athlon, Pentium II etc.). This does not affect x86_64 of course which has enabled SSE2 anyway.

In this case SSE2 is only needed to pass some layout tests; the official Chromium does not need SSE2 neither. (see the config file)

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fluffylime

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From: Russia, Moscow

Registered: 2009-04-03

Posts: 47

Re: Chromium hits Extra

In this case SSE2 is only needed to pass some layout tests; the official Chromium does not need SSE2 neither.

That's great. I'm going to install package from [extra] instead of AUR. Thank you!

Last edited by fluffylime (2009-12-16 18:20:30)

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some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Re: Chromium hits Extra

The buildbot builds chromium with SSE2 enabled.

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

of course; otherwise it wont pass the layout tests. But the chrome release is build without SSE.

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mechmg93

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From: Greece

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 197

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Nice! i already replaced firefox and now i use chromium. the only problem is that using kde4 i cannot set it as default browser cause in every begining it continues asking..

Last edited by mechmg93 (2009-12-16 22:58:34)

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defrysk

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From: Barrie, Ontario

Registered: 2008-12-15

Posts: 42

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

I like chromium, but google-chrome uses less resources so google-chrome is my preferred browser.

hockeyfighter09

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Registered: 2009-07-04

Posts: 48

Re: Chromium hits Extra

I am having trouble installing chromium.  When I type "pacman -Ss chromium" the only thing that comes up is a shooter game?  It says my extra repo is up to date, could that be the problem?  The repo I am using hasnt synced yet?  BTW I am using the unixheads repo.

guzz46

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 190

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Try using a different mirror, such as schlunix

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

I like chromium, but google-chrome uses less resources so google-chrome is my preferred browser.

More details please. Chromium is just Chrome with a blue icon and without some tracking features.

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hockeyfighter09

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Registered: 2009-07-04

Posts: 48

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Try using a different mirror, such as schlunix

Just tried this and I am still getting the same results as before.  Any other suggestions?

guzz46

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-06-18

Posts: 190

Re: Chromium hits Extra

Did you do pacman -Syy first
or you could just download the package then do pacman -U

i686
http://www.schlunix.org/archlinux/extra … pkg.tar.gz

x86_64
http://www.schlunix.org/archlinux/extra … pkg.tar.gz

bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Chromium hits Extra

get it directly from a mirror:
i686: ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinu … pkg.tar.gz
x86_64: ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinu … pkg.tar.gz

Szelek

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From: Warsaw

Registered: 2008-09-03

Posts: 86

Re: Chromium hits Extra

https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

check if Your mirror is up-to-date.

hockeyfighter09

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Registered: 2009-07-04

Posts: 48

Re: Chromium hits Extra

All I got the package and did a pacman -U and it is installed now.  Thanks for everyone for the suggestions!  Any ideas what was wrong?  I did a pacman -Syy numerous times and kept getting the same result, weird.  Anyone know of a good reliable mirror that is updated frequently?  Is unixheads a good repo to use?

combuster

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-09-30

Posts: 711

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Re: Chromium hits Extra

Well depends on where you live, but French mirrors are often up to date, u could use rankmirror http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … rankmirror
and then see on the web page that Szelek posted and see wich one is synced more recently...

unixheads were synced a month ago mirror.archlinux.no is syncing frequently also...

Last edited by combuster (2009-12-17 09:53:51)