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Is the reason people get away with saying "There's no chrome for mac or linux" that chrome doesn't exist on those platforms but chromium does? I've been using chrome (or chromium, whatever) on linux for about 2.5 months and it's great. I use it on my macbook too and it's also really good. So what gives?

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There's no non-developer release yet, and the browser isn't feature-complete on non-Windows platforms. For example, on Ubuntu I can't open links from other programs with Chrome, and asking it to restore tabs when opening the browser doesn't work.

I'm sure once they make official versions the situation will change, I've been happy having it as my secondary browser on all three platforms despite the hiccups.

I'm posting this from Chrome on the Mac. It works well enough to use for daily use. There're still some glitches, but in general I've found it better than Safari or Firefox (both of which I also have installed...web developers need everything).

I've found Chrome for Mac pretty stable so far, too - but this is my showstopper.

Any time Calibri is requested in text, it displays like this: http://u.phoreo.com/jy.png

The font works fine everywhere else, so I'm not sure what's up. Do you have this problem?

The site in your screenshot works fine for me. I can't tell whether that's because it's working or because Calibri's not installed. I'm using Chrome 4.0.223.11 (wtf is up with those version numbers) on a recent (~3 month old) stock Macbook Pro.

Yeah that's a good point. I guess they do make it a little hard to find because they don't want the masses getting hold of it. And I hadn't realized that about the opening links from other programs in Ubuntu, but now that you mention it you are right.

In Ubuntu 9.04, go to System->Preferences->Preferred Applications, and select Chromium. I'm using the chromium-daily PPA (https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa), and links from other apps work fine.

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