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Google Chrome on Ubuntu

September 5th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

I came across this guide about installing Google Chrome under Ubuntu. It is somewhat slow, slower than Windows and much slower than Firefox but it still works, well, kinda. You have a few problems with fonts, as well as sites that don’t work properly with Chrome yet. I’m sticking with Firefox for the time being, but at least I have an option for those sites that aren’t compatible with it.

I wrote this post from Chrome, so yeah, it does work :)

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  1. Bander Alsharfi
    November 2nd, 2008 at 14:57 | #1
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    You should try using CrossOver Chromium. I used it to run Chrome on my Mac, It’s a Mac and Linux port of the browser.

    Nothing special about the delay, by chance Windows team kicked off development before the other teams!

  2. Mohammad Al-Shami
    November 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 | #2
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    Thanks for the info man. CrossOver Chromium is an emulated version of Chromium to showcase what wine can do, still the same idea I guess. I tried CrossOver Office before and it does provide better support for some applications. So I don’t think I’ll be going with CrossOver Chromium for now.

    Just waiting for Chrome to by my backup browser, at least that’s how I see things now.

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