Saturday, April 18, 2009

Chromium for Linux advancing rapidly

I'm writing this blog post using today's build of the Chromium web browser for Linux. For those who don't know, it's the Linux version of the Google Chrome browsers.

The progress over the last few weeks have been good. On my 64-bit AMD Opteron-based system running Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit desktop, the first build I got running could do little more than display the developer pages at the Chromium web site. Any other site I tried caused it to crash.

Chromium can now display most sites correctly and I can open a new tab by clicking on the "+" sign. It's still early days though as I just crashed Chromium trying to cut / paste a few words in this post. It also does nothing with embedded flash objects and many of the menu items like, "Options" and "About Chromium", are mere stubs.

While these development versions of Chromium require SSE2 to be implemented on a CPU in order to run, a commenter to my blog post on that topic says SSE2 won't be required in the release version later on, so they should run on anything at that point.

Here is how it looked on my PC today. Click on the image for the full size. 

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