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Google Chrome for Linux
- Confusion 17y agoI've been using the Ubuntu Chromium PPA builds for the last two months and as far as I can see, it all works just fine. Granted, the Delicious plugin didn't start working until a few weeks ago and I haven't yet tried any other plugin, but the developer tools are very good and those are the majority of my Firefox plugins.
- truebosko 17y agoHow do you get developer tools working? I'm using PPA builds as well, and I have no access to dev tools. Tried launching it with some flags and still no luck. Can't find documentation anywhere :/
- igorgue 17y agotake a look in synaptic, searching for "chromium" and you'll find that there is a separate package for the dev tools
- truebosko 17y agoThanks! I will give this a try shortly.
- drp 17y agoTo get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.
- truebosko 17y agoI see the Developer menu, but "Developer Tools" is not listed on my Ubuntu build like it is on my Windows build. :/ I'm pretty sure I can't Inspect Element on my ubuntu build either, but I will try it when I get home.
- pyre 17y agoIf you hook into the Google repo, the unstable Chrome builds have "Inspect Element", but the daily PPA builds of Chromium haven't for me. As I stated earlier though, I haven't updated them for a couple of months though.
- mattyb 17y agoYou need to install the "chromium-browser-inspector" package and restart Chromium.
- jp_sc 17y agoThe firebug-like plugin is in a separate package: chromium-browser-inspector
- andrewcooke 17y agojust don't use it for anything you'd rather keep private, i guess...
- selven 17y agoI doubt Chrome (browser and OS) are going to become spyware platforms. Even if Google feels like data-mining you, it'll happen on the server side as you use Google search and your Google account and associated services.
- pyre 17y agoThen run Chromium instead of Chrome. Inspect the code if you are wary about your privacy on the browser.
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- rufugee 17y agoGreat...looks slick and runs fast...but with comments like this (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/), how can I trust it?
- bugs 17y agoObviously you can't because you are doing something you think/know you aren't supposed to be doing. In all reality however google is no more evil than telephone companies that allow the government to place wire taps on lines or datacenters allowing the government to take the private server your website is on.
- andreyf 17y agoSince when is following laws evil?
- bugs 17y agoHence my point.
- camccann 17y agoFollowing evil laws is evil. Legality and morality are orthogonal, not isomorphic, concepts.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoMorality and law are not equivalent or coterminous for sure, but I'd hardly say they are orthogonal. Do you really think they are completely void of interdependency?
- steveklabnik 17y agoThey're _supposed_ to be dependant, but each time I interact with the law, I doubt it more and more.
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- alec 17y agoStores passwords in plain text on disk: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&q=password&colspec=ID%20Stars%20Pri%20Area%20Type%20Status%20Summary%20Modified%20Owner%20Mstone%20OS http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&... I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic security feature. I don't know what else isn't done yet, but it does make me worry. No guarantees that Firefox isn't doing similar things I'd object to, but I don't know about them, so for better or worse I have more confidence in it.
- smanek 17y agoWhat's the alternative? Even if it encrypts the password before storing them on disk, the encryption/decryption key are necessarily on disk anyways, no?
- sid0 17y agoYou can make the user enter a master password.
- geocar 17y agoNo. You can use a master password to decrypt your encrypted password database. Your operating system might have a keyring service or an encrypted filesystem you can use to store your keys in. You might even use a hardware token, or some specialized on-board hardware for storing your passwords securely.
- est 17y agoIt's just a matter of time to find the right auto-fill form and replay the HTTP post data.
- tsuraan 17y agoEvery desktop environment that I'm familiar with (OSX, KDE, Gnome) has a built-in password manager to hook into, that stores the data encrypted and prompts the user for a master password in some configurable way. I'm guessing that if the OSX and Linux variations of Chrome get any traction, hooking into the password manager will probably be done. I have no idea if Windows has a password manager, but I don't know why it wouldn't.
- keyist 17y agoFor those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security. Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...
- stanley 17y agoIron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64). Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?
- pyre 17y agoI've been running daily builds of Chrome and Chromium without flash issues. I don't update regularly though. My 'daily builds' are probably 1.5-2 months old. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit though.
- kylemathews 17y agoFor the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe". Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.
- sjs 17y agoThat explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrome. Crafty.
- wmf 17y agoChrome OS uses X11. The idea that Chrome is running Windows Flash Player under some kind of Wine wrapper is ridiculous IMO.
- jiaaro 17y agofor what it's worth, I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)
- peregrine 17y agoHave you noticed the 5 second computer freeze every time you type or hit a keyboard button when Chrome is active? Cause I have.
- selven 17y agoI've never had anything like that. Chrome on my computer is, at worst, taking 5-10% CPU usage to maintain 10 tabs in 2 windows, and it doesn't slow anything else down. Perhaps your OS is the problem?
- sant0sk1 17y agoIf he had that problem I doubt he would have posted: > I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)
- JulianMorrison 17y agoI've had a ton of tab crashes, tab freezes, slow downs, etc. But where Chrom(e|ium) shines is that you can generally just reload the tab and go. Worst case, quit and restart takes seconds.
- mattezell 17y agoMy experience has been the same. I have been using the Chromium Ubuntu PPA for about 2 months and have had no issues until this week (details: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29536 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29536 ). Although crippling to Chromium on my machine, I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried.
- mattezell 17y ago"...I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried..." Just thought that I would update - as of today's PPA update, the issue is resolved.
- kingkilr 17y agoAre there any advantages to running this over Chromium?
- FlorinAndrei 17y agoSome dis-advantages, I guess. Since it's beta, it won't run plugins (yet). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
- bugs 17y agoextensions seem to work fine
- FlorinAndrei 17y agoI stand corrected.
- fauigerzigerk 17y agoI have tried a few plugins. One in 4 (flashblock) has worked, the others didn't.
- steveklabnik 17y agoThe same advantages (and disadvantages) to running any stable build vs. development build.
- zacharydanger 17y agoI just called up my local development site which has a ".dev" domain (which is setup in /etc/hosts) in Chrome and it decided it didn't want to load up any JavaScript or CSS. Apparently you have to disable the phishing and malware protection from the options. Just in case anyone else has a similar setup.
- hussong 17y agoWait, you can resize the comment field? Quite handy, doesn't work with Gecko-based browsers nor Opera...
- thamer 17y agoIt’s a webkit feature.
- brown9-2 17y agoIt's not really the same thing without the alt-text, is it?
- rflrob 17y agoI'm just sad that Mac Chrome didn't also get a comic.
- jimmyjim 17y agoI know this isn't 'Chrome Support' - but any idea how I would get the scroll wheel to get working? edit (i.e., have it be that actually clicking it yields the windows behavior of being in a 'scroll mode' - motioning it down will have me going down the page, instead of actually wheeling it down)
- bumblebird 17y agoThis may be a niche problem, but I found an interesting bug in chrome yesterday. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357 Basically, if you do a redirect (30x) then the referrer isn't set. This means that a number of things are broken. The referrer should be set, and is set in all other browsers. For example, if someone clicks on a tinyurl link, which redirects to your website, you won't get info on where they came from. The referrer will be empty. Bug was reported in feb, I'm not sure why it's not been fixed, since it's a pretty big bug.
- 10ren 17y agoUnfortunately, the chromium .deb pre-depends on a version of dpkg that is greater than the ones available on the xandros repositories for my little eeePC (it needs >= 1.14.00; repositories have 1.13.25). I'm sure the eee forums will have a solution to that, so I'll check there.
- steamboiler 17y agoIs there an equivalent of the Firefox 'Permit Cookies' plugin for Chrome?
- petercooper 17y agoLooks like they ran out of cash to get Scott McCloud like they did for the first, awesome, Chrome comic: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
- leif 17y agoDoes anyone understand the first panel? I see a bunch of people in a room, one with a can of soda, and another with a banana. Is this a party?
- eru 17y agoNice comic. Needs better lettering.