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Google Chrome for Linux goes stable
- MikeCapone 16y agoIf anyone from the Chrome/Chromium team is reading this, I want to say a big "Thank you". Chrome is great software, and it's making my life better (I probably spend something like 50-60 hours a week in it). I'm sure it's the case for many others too. Keep up the good work!
- agl 16y agoYou're welcome :)
- nailer 16y agoAlso triple thankyou for actually producing packages of your work rather than 'here's a tarball, or wait 6 months for your distro to do it' like Firefox does.
- avar 16y agoThose packages are great, my only complaint is that they (at least the Debian ones) don't include a changelog file. It would be great to see what's new through the standard Debian facility when they release new versions.
- ars 16y agoThey also install in /opt - which is wrong when you are using the packaging system for your distribution. They also make a number of other changes to the system. Much better to install the official debian ones - they are less likely to mess with your system, and whoever is releasing them seems to keep up with the releases, so you are not behind. http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-browser.html http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-browser.html
- heresy 16y ago/opt is the correct place to install if the package is not strictly speaking an officially sanctioned package. Less chance of interfering with an overlapping package supplied by the distribution. At least, /opt is part of the FHS, to which Debian adheres. http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/apcs02.html http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/apcs02.html
- ars 16y agoMy understanding is that /opt is for programs that do not use the package manager. For example if you download a .tar file, and it has an installation script. If it uses the package manager it goes in /usr like a regular program.
- nailer 16y agoAccording to, IIRC, either Randy Russell or Alan Cox a decade ago, /opt was added to the FHS at the request of the proprietary Unix vendors. The idea of 'optional' 'third party' software is ridiculous in an Open Source OS. Throwing binaries, libraries, config etc. outside standard folders means long library paths, long binary paths, config that can't be backed up from a central location, etc. Eg, say Debian include Chrome (as Chrome, not Chromium) in their next release. It will move from where it is now to the normal locations for unimportant software beneath /usr. That said, I don't really care that much anymore. There's very little expectation for quality finished software on Linux in general: * Most apps aren't packaged, even for the two major distros people use * half of GUI apps still don't install with shortcuts * WMs still invent their own .desktop replacements * package descriptions for 'foobar' are 'the foobar package' or 'libtoolkit GUI for libfoobar' * service descriptions are 'starts the foobar service' * man pages either don't exist, point elsewhere or consist of 'debian says we have to have a man page, this is a man page, alas it has no content'.
- s-phi-nl 16y agoI can't find the link, but I know the openSuSE build service has a repository with the latest Firefox for SuSE because I use it on my computer.
- dtf 16y agoCongratulations on great work! Alas Chrome had been unusable for me on Linux for the last couple of months... but this post just spurred me to find out why. Turned out my bookmark file was large - 6,000 items - with one particular bookmark (ironically an official Google blog entry on making your website faster) having gone forth and multiplied over 5,000 times. (perhaps aided by a bug in an unstable version?) The unfortunate and frustrating effect being that, on installing Chrome on a new computer - something I've done several times recently - everything would work fine until the sync kicked in. At which point opening or closing tabs would go 100% CPU for over a minute. It's only now in trying to save my bookmark file to try out this new version that I discovered the problem. Happy to be back!
- MikeCapone 16y agoAny idea when application shortcuts are coming to the Mac? :)
- stuntmouse 16y agoAlso wanted to say thanks, especially for making all user-tracking optional. In addition, I'm really happy to see Apple and Google keep cooperating on making WebKit better. Together you've now built the best desktop and mobile browser technology.
- thirdusername 16y agoHug whoever put in auto-translation, from me. Thats the best idea anyone has had in a browser since extensions or possibly tabs. I <3 u.
- pohl 16y agoHas anybody been able to pin this down to a particular version number?
- js2 16y ago5.0.375.55
- jz 16y agoAs a BSD user, I recall some of the porting problems were because of the reliance of ALSA instead of OSS. Anybody know offhand if it still uses ALSA?
- agl 16y agoYes, sound on Linux is still using ALSA. The BSD work is all from contributions I believe. We have a 'media/audio/openbsd', but the contents appears to just be a stub.
- chasingsparks 16y agoGiven Chrome's tab and menu positions, Chrome feels great with XMonad. (Posted via Chrome x86_64 :))
- Periodic 16y agoI was quite happy with Firefox + Vimperator. All I show is a tab bar on the top and status bar on the bottom. It was great for XMonad. I'll try out Chrome + Vimium for a bit, see how it works with my workflow and the muscle-memory of Vimperator keybindings.
- Dirt_McGirt 16y agoGreat. Now if there was a flashblocker that actually works, maybe I could switch.
- telemachos 16y agoThe FlashBlock extension works well for me. Give it a try: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoiabjplobcaignabnl https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoi...
- Dirt_McGirt 16y agoIt blocks like maybe 25% of all flash for me. Not adequate at all.
- pavs 16y agoSomething is wrong with your setup. I have been using that flash blocker for 2-3 months now and it blocks 100% flash objects for me both on mac and Windows, haven't tried it on Linux yet.
- Dirt_McGirt 16y agoWell, I've tried it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it only blocks a minority of all flash files I've encountered. It seems especially bad with youtube and vimeo files embedded in blog posts. In fact, I don't think it really can work in any real sense as an actual blocker since chrome doesn't provide an API for that. As I understand it, the best it can do is to remove the flash after the page has rendered.
- lftl 16y agoThere are at least 3-4 competing extensions on Chrome so I'm sure there's a variability in the quality of them. This one has worked well for me: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cdngiadmnkhgemkimkhiilgffbjijcie https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cdngiadmnkhgemki... But what you've said is true, FF's FlashBlock has much better control over Flash because of the control it has via the API. Chrome doesn't offer the same level of control to extensions, so they're all just going rewrite the page on load. That's been good enough for me though.
- roryokane 16y agoIt’s also finally stable for Mac: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-chrome-stable-release-welcome-mac.html http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-chrome-stable-release...
- stuntmouse 16y agoThe stable Mac version has better idle CPU usage. Doesn't cause my MBP fans to crank up so often.
- zppx 16y agoI'm a recent convert from Firefox (I still use Firefox sometimes), I use Chrome on all three systems that I use every week, I just wish Chrome had something like about:config from Firefox.
- jokermatt999 16y agoThe main thing I miss is the powerful addons. I'd love TreeStyleTabs and a fully featured Vimperator (command line included) for Chrome, but it's just not possible.
- eclark 16y agoThere are several Vim plugins. None of them have all of the features of Vimperator, but they are getting there.
- jokermatt999 16y agoYes, I use Vimium when I use Chrome. However, it's still missing a number of features from it's Firefox counterpart, like the command line to input more complex commands that aren't mapped to a single key. Currently, it can only execute commands mapped to a keycombination, but it has no extended commands like the : commands of Vimperator. I should have gone more in depth about what I meant there.
- stanleydrew 16y agoI talked with a Windows UI designer on the Chromium team at Google I/O who is working on tree tabs. Should at least be an option pretty soon in the dev channel.
- jokermatt999 16y agoThis is excellent news; thank you. I'll go see what I can find on that. If you talk to them again, let them know there's definitely interest in that.
- ibejoeb 16y agoI use Chrome on Linux every day, and I love it, but I'm skeptical. In fact, just yesterday it chewed up my profile and I have yet to be able to recover it. Right now I'm leaning toward a corrupt SQLite database.
- paulsmith 16y agoWeird, that just happened to me, too. No history, no cookies, and won't populate them, either (eg., no "most visited thumbnails" in the home page).
- rufugee 16y agoYet for me, the developer console still won't show Ajax requests for inspection. This is on 64-bit Ubuntu Lucid. Anyone else have this problem?
- stanleydrew 16y agoNever had that problem. It's always just worked. Has it ever worked for you, or have you seen it work on someone else's chrome install?
- rufugee 16y agoIt worked in the past, but at some point stopped. I made use of it quite often, but only noticed last week it had stopped. I uninstalled/reinstalled, but no dice. Appears a few others are having it as well (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40987 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40987). I'm going to blow away ~/.config/google-chrome and see if that fixes it.
- apsurd 16y agoI love having ajax requests show up in the console too. Chrome used to do it like you said but doesn't seem to show up anymore. You can still see the requests though if you go to the "resources" tab. On the left pane you'll find the url to the request you've made where you can view its headers and response content in the main pane. I guess the url as a "resource" is technically correct, but it's so much easier/nicer having it on the console. HTH
- Raphael_Amiard 16y agoIMHO chrome is the first and only serious linux web browser. It doesn't have this sluggish feeling that firefox linux has. The situation certainly isn't the same on windows, where firefox graphic performance is decent. All in all, a big thank you to the chrome devs from a linuxer
- ondra 16y agoI'm a fan of Konqueror myself. For some reason nobody seems to use it. Konqueror is stable, fast, doesn't use much memory and renders everything just fine.
- j23tom 16y agois google spreadsheet working well on Chrome finally (cells selection was broken) ?
- smcdow 16y agoWhere the stable version for RHEL-5?
- c00p3r 16y agoWhat is the reason to use RHEL as a desktop instead of Fedora?
- dagw 16y agoRedHat enterprise support with long term stable updates that won't disappear and force you to upgrade in a few month time?
- c00p3r 16y agoSome people argued that there is Sun's enterprise support for Solaris and blah-blah-blah. =) Where is the [Open]Solaris now? (Do not even try to tell that it is alive - no activity, no community support, no device driver updates or even patches - the very dead. =) two hints: There is the CentOS, which have a much cheaper support (free updates + community support). =) Fedora 12 (even 13) is pretty stable and actively supported system. They got less hype than Ubuntu (they don't have so much money for promotion and advertisement) but it is not just a testing branch of RHEL (look at RHEL6 beta - it is Fedora 12), it is probably the best distro available. (Think about it to become a RHEL with maturation - this is the main advantage over ubuntu which will become only yet another ubuntu. =)
- JulianMorrison 16y agoAdblock on Chrome is still seriously imperfect, for two reasons 1. It takes a while to hide things (it also has a "hide too much, and un-hide later" mode, but that's barely an improvement). 2. The big one: it still downloads things. Let me be clear here: I don't want to have to wait for doubleclick to get off its ass and serve me an ad. I want the page all the way loaded when the bits I'm going to see are there. Which does not include adverts. I assume this is pending on Chrome adding a "pretty please may I?" hook to URL fetching - does anyone know when this will be here?
- KERMIT 16y agoBrowsers should just display content. Filtering proxies should filter out ads and other unwanted content before it ever gets to the browser.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoJavascript can always be used to smuggle unwanted content into the DOM. And there are far too many badly-written sites out there for most users to be willing to block Javascript entirely.
- fierarul 16y agoFiltering proxies don't know Javascript or Flash. I also don't want to worry about the parsing and semantic differences between the proxy and the browser: a lot of differences might arrise. Putting ad-blocking inside the browser seems the most logical part, especially since you get the DOM already made so you know you look at the same data.
- JulianMorrison 16y agoThe only browser as minimalist as you seem to want is this one http://www.uzbl.org/ http://www.uzbl.org/ In all other browsers, they are basically a web OS. Stripping adverts out of web pages is well within a browser's remit. In particular, deciding what not to download is within their remit.
- est 16y ago
- maw 16y agoHow much work would it be, maybe through an extension and maybe not, to arrange for individual tabs to suspend and resume after being idle for a period of time? On Linux and OSX, at least, this might be done via SIGSTOP and SIGCONT, or perhaps using a more sophisticated scheme. Although it'd come at the cost of Chrome's responsiveness, I expect that it'd be a net win. For now, I use a script to kill the helper processes and reload the ones I'm interested at the time. Effective, but a blunter tool than I'd like all the same.
- teilo 16y agoAlso, Chrome for Mac is now stable.
- artaak 16y agoWhat about integrating Adobe PDF? Does Adobe Reader still requires dances around to show something besides a gray screen?