Google Chrome Not Yet For Linux
Google recently announced and released their browser, Google Chrome. And, as should be expected, everyone is talking about it (QuirksMode, Dave Woods, and LifeHacker, amongst others). Unfortunately, it’s not yet available for linux. There’s promise that the developers are working on a linux port, and there’s a nice little textbox you can drop your email into for updates on the status.
The features touted on Google’s promotional website include searchable history / smart address bar, a “portal” page as the default “new tab” view, individual tab processes, dynamic tabs (ala Safari 3.1), and “incognito mode” (is that the Red Hat mascot I see in the corner?). Underneath the hood, I’ve heard it uses a combination of opensource code from Safari’s Webkit and Mozilla’s Gecko engines, so it should be interesting from a web development perspective.
All in all, from what I’ve read others saying, it looks like Google took some opensource browser code, implemented a few nifty FireFox addons as default features, and slapped a shiny Google interface on it. My test run for Chrome won’t happen until it’s available for linux, but if you’re itching to see it, check out LifeHacker’s first look at Chrome (using the Windows release).
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Just an update, chromium – the open source version – is available for both MAC and Linux. It’s made by a third party named codeweavers who call it crossover chromium.
Thanks for the update. Just to clarify, though, Chromium is the open-source project that is developing Chrome. That codebase is the source for the Linux and Mac “Crossover Chromium” ports.
Lifehacker covered the release of Crossover Chromium, and apparently CodeWeavers themselves said that it’s only a proof of concept, and they don’t recommend using it as your main browser. User comments on LH weren’t all that positive. I myself am still waiting for the official Chrome to come out for Linux.