How To Run Google Chrome Browser on Linux
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkSunday, September 21, 2008
CodeWeaver’s released a port of Google’s Chrome browser (review) for Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a Mac and Linux port of the open source Chromium web browser. CrossOver Chromium is free and available for download here.
The Linux port is just a proof of concept. Chromium itself is just beginning. As the Chromium project progresses, they will be providing more compelling support for Mac OS and Linux, particularly with process security and memory management. Those future versions from Chromium will be better suited for daily use than this version.
No, open source Chromium (and obviously it’s Linux port) doesn’t have an autoupdater; that’s one of the difference between the open source Chromium and Google Chrome.
The software requires wine to be pre-installed in your system. I used the rpm distribution for RedHat on my Fedora Core 6 system successfully. To install wine (if it is not there already) type this on Fedora / RedHat / CentOS distributions:
yum install wine
Google’s open source chromium is not exactly Chrome browser. The task manager doesn’t show the exact memory consumption for one and I sincerely hope that’s not because they have serious memory issues in Chrome which they want to hide.
In my utterly non-scientific tests on Linux, Chromium wasn’t faster than Forefox. In fact it appeared slower. Give it a try and let me know what is your experience running Chromium on Linux.
Tags: Chrome, Chrome on Linux, Chromium, Chromium on Linux, Fact, Fedora, Firefox, google chrome, Google Chrome Browser, Open Source, support
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December 3, 2009: 12:33 pm
I couldn’t help but laugh at this: In my utterly non-scientific tests on Linux, Chromium wasn’t faster than Forefox. In fact it appeared slower. You state that chromium wasn’t faster than firefox, which obviously implies that it is slower. Then you say “In fact it appeared slower”. Same thing twice. Not mocking just saying. Otherwise, nice article. |
 private idiot |
September 29, 2009: 6:45 pm
@private life: no actually google’s chrome browser doesnt do that, wanna know how i know? because the source code is OPEN!!! |
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September 27, 2009: 8:22 am
A year on from this post, latest unstable Google Chrome (now native for Linux) is *much* faster than Firefox 3. Distro is Fedora 10. =) |
 Private Life |
May 10, 2009: 9:40 pm
GOOGLE CHROME OBSERVES AND TRACKS EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE, EVERY KEYSTROKE AND EVERY MAIL. THIS INFORMATION IS STORED ON THE ALMOST INFINITE STORAGE IN THE GMAIL ACCOUNT SERVERS, WHICH EVEN IF YOU SUBSCRIBED TO EVERY SINGLE SPAMMER YOU COULD FIND, |
 Hooty |
October 28, 2008: 5:42 am
Chrome is fast, but Firefox 3.1 is faster. One other big minus for me is that Chrome does not have auto-scroll as an option. |
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