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Google Chrome running on OSX and Linux

41 points by cliff 18y ago

snorkel 18y ago
I'm sorry, I was yawning. Are we still talking about browsers that don't matter and never will?
- thorax 18y ago
  It matters to me. I use Firefox mostly, but I honestly use Chrome religiously to play Weewar. It's like night-and-day difference in speed for playing that kind of an ajax-heavy game.
coolestuk 18y ago
I recently started using a small, lightweight, linux umpc for all my internet usage and development work. The one thing I missed was Lotus Notes [Notes-haters just hold your tongues!] To my very pleasant surprise I could run it under Wine and it's as fast as running it on my Vista laptop (and the Vista laptop has twice the ram and twice the processor power). I hadn't looked at Wine for maybe 5 or 6 years. It's come a very long way.
cliff 18y ago
A discussion of what it took to do it: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/...
ComputerGuru 18y ago
It's running under CrossOver, which is basically a paid version of Wine/Darwine.... which means it doesn't really count.
- ajross 18y ago
  I'm not sure what "count" means in that context. It's real software you can run, and it's really running on OS X and Linux. So it does what it advertises. But yes: this is basically advertisement. Google released a big piece of notable windows software with an open source license, and Codeweavers took the opportunity to show how you could get that source base running on other platforms in a matter of days using their product. I'm not rushing off to download it, but still: this is a good hack, and a great piece of marketing IMHO.
  - bayareaguy 18y ago
    Except for people with PowerPC OSX systems.
- lacker 18y ago
  It's free as in beer, and it works well enough for me to make this comment with it right now. So it kinda counts! That said, there seem to be several issues with fonts not FITTING _ um< i guess i am being shown up _ literally as i type this it seems to have convinced my macbook that shift is being constantly held down. and it breaks with expose. beware!
tdavis 18y ago
Edit: Flagging this for duplication; the other link's title isn't so misleading. Wow, I was running Chrome from day one using VMWare Fusion. Between Fusion and Parallels, us Mac users are pretty much covered. I still have nightmares about Wine, though...
dmix 18y ago
I tried it and it renders the fonts really poorly. It's actually makes it unusable. Either way, it's probably easier to find a windows box to try it on then use this.
nickb 18y ago
Pretty crude... lots of widget flickering, font issues, spurious scroll bars etc but it works and you can test your site in it without starting VMware/Parallels. Definitely not suitable to be used as a default browser but it's great for quick testing. But most of all, this is a great example of advertising your product by latching onto some new fad.
louismg 18y ago
It's not native, but it's pretty darn good. I like it.
liuliu 18y ago
V8 and webkit can surely be compiled under varies os. CodeWeaver just wanna promote its commercial wine....
tlrobinson 18y ago
Works great in Parallel's Coherence mode too: http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/Skitch-20080915-154041.png http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/Skitch-20080915-154041.png
ghiotion 18y ago
I'm running this on Hardy and it runs... OK. More of an interesting POC than anything else. However, I think it forcefully demonstrates one of two things: 1) Wine is amazing. 2) Wine is a mess. I dunno. Maybe both. I know, I know. It's Codeweavers. Still, that's Wine.
metatronscube 18y ago
Mine is crashing every 5 min! :( Anyone else having problems? Looks like a great attempt though, but I cant wait for a native version, hopefully that's on the way soon.

41 points by cliff 18y ago

snorkel 18y ago

I'm sorry, I was yawning. Are we still talking about browsers that don't matter and never will?

thorax 18y ago
It matters to me. I use Firefox mostly, but I honestly use Chrome religiously to play Weewar. It's like night-and-day difference in speed for playing that kind of an ajax-heavy game.

coolestuk 18y ago

I recently started using a small, lightweight, linux umpc for all my internet usage and development work. The one thing I missed was Lotus Notes [Notes-haters just hold your tongues!] To my very pleasant surprise I could run it under Wine and it's as fast as running it on my Vista laptop (and the Vista laptop has twice the ram and twice the processor power). I hadn't looked at Wine for maybe 5 or 6 years. It's come a very long way.

cliff 18y ago

A discussion of what it took to do it: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/15/fire-drills-and-proving-a-point http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/...

ComputerGuru 18y ago

It's running under CrossOver, which is basically a paid version of Wine/Darwine.... which means it doesn't really count.

ajross 18y ago
I'm not sure what "count" means in that context. It's real software you can run, and it's really running on OS X and Linux. So it does what it advertises. But yes: this is basically advertisement. Google released a big piece of notable windows software with an open source license, and Codeweavers took the opportunity to show how you could get that source base running on other platforms in a matter of days using their product. I'm not rushing off to download it, but still: this is a good hack, and a great piece of marketing IMHO.
- bayareaguy 18y ago
  Except for people with PowerPC OSX systems.
lacker 18y ago
It's free as in beer, and it works well enough for me to make this comment with it right now. So it kinda counts! That said, there seem to be several issues with fonts not FITTING _ um< i guess i am being shown up _ literally as i type this it seems to have convinced my macbook that shift is being constantly held down. and it breaks with expose. beware!

tdavis 18y ago

Edit: Flagging this for duplication; the other link's title isn't so misleading. Wow, I was running Chrome from day one using VMWare Fusion. Between Fusion and Parallels, us Mac users are pretty much covered. I still have nightmares about Wine, though...

dmix 18y ago

I tried it and it renders the fonts really poorly. It's actually makes it unusable. Either way, it's probably easier to find a windows box to try it on then use this.

nickb 18y ago

Pretty crude... lots of widget flickering, font issues, spurious scroll bars etc but it works and you can test your site in it without starting VMware/Parallels. Definitely not suitable to be used as a default browser but it's great for quick testing. But most of all, this is a great example of advertising your product by latching onto some new fad.

louismg 18y ago

It's not native, but it's pretty darn good. I like it.

liuliu 18y ago

V8 and webkit can surely be compiled under varies os. CodeWeaver just wanna promote its commercial wine....

tlrobinson 18y ago

Works great in Parallel's Coherence mode too: http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/Skitch-20080915-154041.png http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/Skitch-20080915-154041.png

ghiotion 18y ago

I'm running this on Hardy and it runs... OK. More of an interesting POC than anything else. However, I think it forcefully demonstrates one of two things: 1) Wine is amazing. 2) Wine is a mess. I dunno. Maybe both. I know, I know. It's Codeweavers. Still, that's Wine.

metatronscube 18y ago

Mine is crashing every 5 min! :( Anyone else having problems? Looks like a great attempt though, but I cant wait for a native version, hopefully that's on the way soon.