Google Releases Chrome Beta for Linux, Mac

[JMcEntegart]

More than a year after Google released the Chrome browser, the company has announced versions for Linux and Macs.

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[cushgod]

Excellent!

 

[nocturne111]

Of course, it will probably remain in beta for anther five years...

 

[donaldduck]

About time!
However, the "dev channel" version has been pretty stable on my linux machine and I think I will keep on using it, as that is the only one that supports extensions (for the moment, at least).

 

[Guest]

I've been using Chrome in Ubuntu (9.04) for four or five months now... Am I crazy? Or did they have an alpha release or something before this for Linux?

 

[donaldduck]

[citation][nom]NoOne7331[/nom]I've been using Chrome in Ubuntu (9.04) for four or five months now... Am I crazy? Or did they have an alpha release or something before this for Linux?[/citation]

It was the "dev channel" release. There is one for Windows as well. It is not really an Alpha release but more of a "testing" release, including more functionality that will eventually be integrated in the "stable" channel (such as extensions).

 

[jerther]

Groovy! 😀

 

[wildwell]

Great news. When can we download?

 

[lifelesspoet]

Awaiting a mouse gesture plugin so I can finally switch from opera. Love both, but opera has been lagging in speed and stability lately.

 

[bk420]

Tried to install it, but did not work on Slackware. Hopefully they will release the source tar.gz.

 

[Guest]

I have been using the dev version in Ubuntu for the better part of its existence. Been pretty stable and much faster than Firefox overall.

 

[michaelahess]

not so integrated with themes, mine doesn't apply a single element under Ubuntu. It looks just like the windows version. Not even gonna mess with it, I'm just happy it's out and seems to work.

 

[donaldduck]

[citation][nom]lifelesspoet[/nom]Awaiting a mouse gesture plugin so I can finally switch from opera. Love both, but opera has been lagging in speed and stability lately.[/citation]
You could try this extension:
http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/mouse-stroke/
But you need to use the "dev channel" version of chrome. Also, it is nowhere near the sophistication of Opera just yet.

[citation][nom]michaelahess[/nom]not so integrated with themes, mine doesn't apply a single element under Ubuntu. It looks just like the windows version. Not even gonna mess with it, I'm just happy it's out and seems to work.[/citation]
There is a GTK integration for Chrome, but it is disabled by default.
You can activate it in the "Under the hood" settings, but I usually prefer to use one of the themes already available for Chrome, as the GTK integration makes Chrome slightly uglier and just a tad slower on start-up.

 

[didymus03]

Perfect timing! I have been using Chrome on Windows for nearly as long as it has been out and just this week I installed and started using Linux.