Chrome deb/ubuntu x86

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14 points·s3graham··7 comments

Can definitely tell its a unstable build. I cannot open up any dialogs for example and when I do a search if I type to fast in address bar and hit enter the last couple characters are lost. runs just as fast as it does in my windows system (or so it seems) I have been very put off with the state of the browsers in Linux, I hope Chrome can give firefox or epiphany some real competition.

Firefox 3.0.10 is horribly slow on my system, it crashes pretty frequently on startup. I've been using the Ubuntu Chromium daily builds off of Launchpad for the past for days (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa), and it's really been a refreshing experience - the web is responsive again! It obviously isn't ready for release yet, but if you build that into your expectations, it's actually quite pleasurable to use.

is there a 64bit version, too?

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab...

It's not a native 64bit binary as it uses ia32-libs.

Some interesting info: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/05/javascr...

Apparently, there is eventually going to be a 64bit version, on all platforms probably, but at the moment no. As pointed out, the current 64bit deb just installs the 32bit version plus ia32libs stuff.

They're talking about/ waiting on 64bit V8 (their javascript VM) before starting on the browser bits.

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