Google Chrome on Linux

zinc · 24 Jul 2009 at 04:48

Iv'e noticed lately that chrome for linux is improving rapidly, in the last few weeks there has been flash added although not enabled by default, history and activities, privacy mode(incognito mode), bookmarks now work flawlessy and also better font rendering (almost as good as FF).

Was wondering if anybody else has the nightly build PPA added?

Do you think they are starting to push development due to the announcement of their new chrome OS? I understand it will be running on top some form of linux kernal.

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Found another new feature:

You can also now remove the top metacity border so that it appears like it does on windows, right click chromes blue top bar and uncheck "use system title bar and borders"

yashiro · 24 Jul 2009 at 07:41

The font rendering is still garbage.

zinc · 24 Jul 2009 at 20:35

Yea the fonts are still no where near firefox. They have come along way though literally in the last few weeks but before that it was looking like nothing was ever going to come out of chrome. By the end of the year it may be a good rival to firefox.

BigglesPiP · 24 Jul 2009 at 21:29

It runs Flash well enough that I can watch iPlayer/Youtube etc on my eee.

yashiro · 26 Jul 2009 at 11:47

Fonts on todays build are much better. Some rendering and Flash bugs have been fixed too but movie playback is a bit broken.

Ross1234 · 26 Jul 2009 at 11:58

BigglesPiP said:
It runs Flash well enough that I can watch iPlayer/Youtube etc on my eee.

Can you watch iplayer in high definition? Thats where my eee struggled. It managed normal iplayer fine in firefox and opera.

yashiro · 26 Jul 2009 at 12:23

I doubt the Eee has the processing power for high definition flash regardless of browser used.

BigglesPiP · 26 Jul 2009 at 13:13

yashiro said:
I doubt the Eee has the processing power for high definition flash regardless of browser used.

It manages iPlayer quite well, Up-scaling seems the be the problem, it will play high def in full screen better than low quality.

zinc · 8 Aug 2009 at 10:49

Hi guys,

Just an update on chrome, skins and theme support are now officially supported. You can install skins from their gallery:

https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html

You can also set the browser to be the the same color as your gtk theme in chromes options (this never worked for me before). I like using this as it makes chrome integrate nicely with your overall theme you have set in your OS. Pic: