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na12

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From: /home/serbia

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 752

Google Chrome BETA

Google Chrome BETA now available for Linux.
Whether Chrome will become the competition Firefox?
I will certainly switch to Chrome.

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux&hl=en

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ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

Re: Google Chrome BETA

Cool, but i wait for Iron browser. Too much tracking for my taste in chrome.

Now we wait response from Firefox team.

But who can choose theese days?? Arora is awsome, Midori is getting better, Chromium is one of many webkit based browsers...

Anikom15

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From: United States

Registered: 2009-04-30

Posts: 836

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

Is it open source or not? It's really confusing.

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MTsoul

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 95

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

Chromium is open source. Chrome is the one Google builds and has some other kinky stuff: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ … ogleChrome

I want to switch to Chromium so bad, but I can't live without Vimperator. Somebody, please, port it over!

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

Cool, but i wait for Iron browser. Too much tracking for my taste in chrome.

Iron is in AUR now http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29218

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Google Chrome BETA

I wonder if this beta release will be the signal for TUs to put some form of Chrome/Chromium/Iron into community.

It's too bad there's still no native 64-bit Iron.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

I wonder if this beta release will be the signal for TUs to put some form of Chrome/Chromium/Iron into community.

It's too bad there's still no native 64-bit Iron.

not really:D they still not have a tarball for this beta. i don't want to download 1gb or to generate myself a tarball for that.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=29044

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fx4

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From: Greensboro

Registered: 2009-11-06

Posts: 20

Re: Google Chrome BETA

I'll stick with pure Chromium.  I don't trust SRWare's Iron browser.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

I'll stick with pure Chromium.  I don't trust SRWare's Iron browser.

Any reason why? It is open source...

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Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

Duplicates thread:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=73457

Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-12-09 05:45:17)

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Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

I'll stick with pure Chromium.  I don't trust SRWare's Iron browser.

Any reason why? It is open source...

fx4 has a point.

Did you try building Iron from source(especially for x86_64)? How can a browser promotes itself for security If you can't build it from source.

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Google Chrome BETA

I'm just trying iron now. I like it but I can't shade the window

btw, can anyone get extensions to install from the website? www.chromeextensions.org
I keep getting the message:
"Required value 'default_title' is missing or invalid'

Last edited by sand_man (2009-12-09 09:25:54)

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firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 557

Re: Google Chrome BETA

I think that something is wrong with the fonts.

With Firefox:

With Chrome:

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Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

Looks like Chrome uses Xsettings.  Try specifying your font configuration in ~/.Xdefaults:

!Xft.dpi:        89
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

Or whatever settings you use.

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firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 557

Re: Google Chrome BETA

Looks like Chrome uses Xsettings.  Try specifying your font configuration in ~/.Xdefaults:

!Xft.dpi:        89
Xft.antialias:  true
Xft.rgba:       rgb
Xft.hinting:    true
Xft.hintstyle:  hintslight

Or whatever settings you use.

It didn't do the trick. I might be a bug of some kind.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue … l?id=25365
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/49909

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rusty99

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Registered: 2009-03-18

Posts: 253

Re: Google Chrome BETA

Nice that --pinned-tab-count=n http://your_address_here.com http://your_other_addresses_here.com works now. One feature I've been really waiting for.

antonikus

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Registered: 2009-11-22

Posts: 42

Re: Google Chrome BETA

I downloaded the 32bit rpm for my pure 32bit system.
Install like this,
rpmextract.sh googlecrhomeblabla.rpm

then as root
mv opt/google /opt
mv usr/bin/google-chrome /usr/bin
mv usr/share/man/man1/google-chrome.1 /usr/share/man/man1/
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libnss3.so libnss3.so.1d
ln -s libnssutil3.so libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -s libsmime3.so libsmime3.so.1d
ln -s libssl3.so libssl3.so.1d
ln -s libplds4.so libplds4.so.0d
ln -s libplc4.so libplc4.so.0d
ln -s libnspr4.so libnspr4.so.0d
cp /home/uruser/.Xauthority /root/

then start google-chrome

And my impression is like meh. Compared loading time of docs.google.com and mail.google.com with that in firefox, and no difference. Notice my sistem is amd barton 2800+ from like 2004, 1.5GB ram. old pata disk.

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Google Chrome BETA

Pierre posted today in arch-dev-public that he intends to put chromium (not chrome) in extra. Looking forward to it!

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

I downloaded the 32bit rpm for my pure 32bit system.
Install like this,
rpmextract.sh googlecrhomeblabla.rpm

then as root
mv opt/google /opt
mv usr/bin/google-chrome /usr/bin
mv usr/share/man/man1/google-chrome.1 /usr/share/man/man1/
cd /usr/lib
ln -s libnss3.so libnss3.so.1d
ln -s libnssutil3.so libnssutil3.so.1d
ln -s libsmime3.so libsmime3.so.1d
ln -s libssl3.so libssl3.so.1d
ln -s libplds4.so libplds4.so.0d
ln -s libplc4.so libplc4.so.0d
ln -s libnspr4.so libnspr4.so.0d
cp /home/uruser/.Xauthority /root/

then start google-chrome

why not google-chrome-beta from aur? get tarball, extract, makepkg -i and start chrome:D

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,563

Re: Google Chrome BETA

antonikus, that kind of solution (symlinking library versions) can seriously screw over your Arch install.  Be careful.

crazycal00

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Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 18

Re: Google Chrome BETA

Iron is so untrustworth, has anyone tried to get the source? there is a tiny link that is on rapidshare. anyone legit would not use rapid  share IMHO. who wants to wait 90 seconds to download something, then get a crappeh 100kb/s

not to mention once you download it, it's a giant confusing tarbomb of crap.
no clear instructions on building.
also it's always behind chromium builds.

Chrome is the way to go, or chromium. i don't care if google tracks me, everyone else already does!

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Arm-the-Homeless

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 273

Re: Google Chrome BETA

i don't care if google tracks me

That's the good ol' American spirit.

crazycal00

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Registered: 2009-04-02

Posts: 18

Re: Google Chrome BETA

It's in the AUR now!

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32530

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jerryluc

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 95

Re: Google Chrome BETA

The devs are talking about putting chromium in [community]

That's more interesting then that google is building it for ubuntu users.

thoughtcrime

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Registered: 2008-09-27

Posts: 156

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Re: Google Chrome BETA

Iron is so untrustworth, has anyone tried to get the source? there is a tiny link that is on rapidshare. anyone legit would not use rapid  share IMHO. who wants to wait 90 seconds to download something, then get a crappeh 100kb/s

not to mention once you download it, it's a giant confusing tarbomb of crap.
no clear instructions on building.
also it's always behind chromium builds.

Word. I've also thought about trying out Iron, but then... rapidshare links? WTF? In the age of google code, sourceforge etc? That is just like saying: Yes, we develop opensource software, but we make it hard to reach (and therefore maintain) the code, because we do some bad things with it we do not want anyone to know.

Chrome is the way to go, or chromium. i don't care if google tracks me, everyone else already does!

I don't agree at all with this. I do care about privacy and I wonder whether chromium also has googles tracking "features".

Last edited by thoughtcrime (2009-12-10 17:12:14)

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