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It's running under CrossOver, which is basically a paid version of Wine/Darwine.... which means it doesn't really count.

I'm not sure what "count" means in that context. It's real software you can run, and it's really running on OS X and Linux. So it does what it advertises.

But yes: this is basically advertisement. Google released a big piece of notable windows software with an open source license, and Codeweavers took the opportunity to show how you could get that source base running on other platforms in a matter of days using their product.

I'm not rushing off to download it, but still: this is a good hack, and a great piece of marketing IMHO.

Except for people with PowerPC OSX systems.

It's free as in beer, and it works well enough for me to make this comment with it right now. So it kinda counts!

That said, there seem to be several issues with fonts not FITTING _

um< i guess i am being shown up _ literally as i type this it seems to have convinced my macbook that shift is being constantly held down. and it breaks with expose. beware!

Pretty crude... lots of widget flickering, font issues, spurious scroll bars etc but it works and you can test your site in it without starting VMware/Parallels. Definitely not suitable to be used as a default browser but it's great for quick testing.

But most of all, this is a great example of advertising your product by latching onto some new fad.

A discussion of what it took to do it: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/...

I recently started using a small, lightweight, linux umpc for all my internet usage and development work. The one thing I missed was Lotus Notes [Notes-haters just hold your tongues!] To my very pleasant surprise I could run it under Wine and it's as fast as running it on my Vista laptop (and the Vista laptop has twice the ram and twice the processor power). I hadn't looked at Wine for maybe 5 or 6 years. It's come a very long way.

I'm running this on Hardy and it runs... OK. More of an interesting POC than anything else. However, I think it forcefully demonstrates one of two things:

1) Wine is amazing.

2) Wine is a mess.

I dunno. Maybe both. I know, I know. It's Codeweavers. Still, that's Wine.

Edit: Flagging this for duplication; the other link's title isn't so misleading.

Wow, I was running Chrome from day one using VMWare Fusion. Between Fusion and Parallels, us Mac users are pretty much covered. I still have nightmares about Wine, though...

Works great in Parallel's Coherence mode too:

http://tlrobinson.net/skitches/Skitch-20080915-154041.png

Mine is crashing every 5 min! :( Anyone else having problems? Looks like a great attempt though, but I cant wait for a native version, hopefully that's on the way soon.

I tried it and it renders the fonts really poorly. It's actually makes it unusable.

Either way, it's probably easier to find a windows box to try it on then use this.

It's not native, but it's pretty darn good. I like it.

V8 and webkit can surely be compiled under varies os. CodeWeaver just wanna promote its commercial wine....

I'm sorry, I was yawning. Are we still talking about browsers that don't matter and never will?

It matters to me. I use Firefox mostly, but I honestly use Chrome religiously to play Weewar. It's like night-and-day difference in speed for playing that kind of an ajax-heavy game.

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