Saturday, May 30, 2009

Chromium Alpha for Linux

Chromium has been steadily improving. The latest (May 29-30) warning / disclaimer page in 3.0.183.0 (0) looks better than ever! :-)

Chromium Alpha

This is an alpha build of Chromium on Linux. The following, significant chunks of functionality are known to be missing:
  • Plugins, inc Flash (so no YouTube, Hulu etc)
  • Printing
  • Complex text
  • Complex tab dragging
  • Gears support
Other parts of the browser are notably incomplete, poorly tuned and broken. User beware!

‘Chromium’ vs ‘Google Chrome’

Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project.
This is a build of Chromium. No versions of Google Chrome for Linux will exist until Google makes an official release.

Don't file bugs without doing the work

Every minute spent triaging and de-duplicating bugs is a minute spent not fixing them. If you have a good bug report (e.g. includes a stack trace or a reduced test case), first verify it exists in the latest build, thenverify it hasn't been filed already, then file your bug using the Linux-specific template.

How to help

Chromium is an open source project, and you are welcome to help out. We have documentation for developers as well as mailing lists and an IRC channel.
Posted by Steve Withers at 1:26 PM
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1 comment:

  1. Dave MoskovitzJune 04, 2009 9:14 PM

    It does look lovely and I can't wait to use it, but unfortunately without Flash it's pretty useless to me!

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