Comments on: 10 Reasons Why Google Chrome Should Be Your Default Web Browser and Plugins List

By: Tyler Jordan

Tyler Jordan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:40:48 +0000

Opera is better than all of them!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 07:26:03 +0000

And that everything you do, search or touch will be recorded by google,

IE9 and firefox are at least coming out with do not track me thingies.

I’d be suprised if google does as their business relies on tracking peoples business

By: sophie

sophie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:11:18 +0000

Why is Google Chrome faster in Linux than in Windows or Mac?

By: gio

gio — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:25 +0000

yes chromium is fast and nice browser. and it’s open source,too. but firefox is the biggest free movement for me. that’s not only reason of course. simply i love firefox. and it will be my default browser forever. because it’s mine and yours.

By: Cedara

Cedara — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:09:00 +0000

@ cudjoe: Well said.

By: Cedara

Cedara — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:08:31 +0000

Sorry, I’d rather stick with Opera.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:38:25 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. Now I have both on our desktop, Jaunty Jackelope! It’ll be up to the hubby to decide if they stay… I’m the FF user, he’s Chrome.

By: areYouKiddingMe

areYouKiddingMe — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:20:36 +0000

i mostly agree with, it’s really fast but on the other hand it’s EMPTY.

By: Ahmad Amr

Ahmad Amr — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:14 +0000

@d0od: Seems you’re the one who is not reading anything, It’s still a development version, not even in beta stage.

By: Arkadi

Arkadi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:09:38 +0000

I used, using and will be using Firefox.
Because it’s open source and has a great community that I can trust.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:25:44 +0000

I’ll get it when there’s an up-to-date, maintained ad blocking system. To me, no browser is even worth opening if it doesn’t have an advertisement blocking system. I see that there are many in development, but until they finish those, Firefox is all I’m going to use.

By: cudjoe

cudjoe — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:28:28 +0000

Google Chrome is fundamentally dangerous for individual liberty, data protection and privacy.

Google does not protect your private data against governments.

If you really like Chrome features and speed, you better have a look at Iron browser, based on Chromium, without Big Brother.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php

There is a Linux Alpha Version :
http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=561

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:45:16 +0000

This is the last time i’m going to say this

Google Chrome exists on Linux.

If you read MY article that this post links to then you will see this.

From the dev pages itself: -

Note: Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Chrome up to date. If you don’t want Google’s repository, do “sudo touch /etc/default/google-chrome” before installing the package.

Download and install the package appropriate for your system (just clicking on it should do the right thing):
Dev channel (for 32-bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb
Dev channel (for 64-bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

Honestly people - READ before commenting next time! This is the last article from my site I’m allowing here.

By: Ahmad Amr

Ahmad Amr — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:29:57 +0000

1 Reason Why Google Chrome SHOULDN’T Be Your Default Web Browser:

ONLY AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS!!!!

By: Dmitri Minaev

Dmitri Minaev — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:54:32 +0000

Google Chrome for Linux does not even exist yet, how could it be my default browser? And that piece of code they position as the “beta version” is so clumsy that it won’t be able to compete with Opera for at least a year.

By: d0od

d0od — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:32:56 +0000

I wrote the article above (it comes from my blog omgubuntu.co.uk) and i can assure that pre-beta builds of Google Chrome are available (they’re nothing more than stable snapshots of Chromium with Google Branding, sure.)

By: sajesh

sajesh — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:11:14 +0000

i dont like the way fonts are rendered in chrome. fx seems much smoother. besides, in fx if i have set a page zoom for a site, fx remembers it when i open the site next time. chrome doesnt. that makes some fonts on website huge and fugly. and i hate doing the zoom unzoom every single time.

By: jdouglas50

jdouglas50 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:01:36 +0000

Wow…. really fast!

By: e

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:32:44 +0000

Here is the link to download chrome for linux:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/linux.html

By: van

van — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:18:18 +0000

@Dierk and @d0od: I understand the confusion, I think they mean that *Chromium* is available for Linux. Google Chrome is closed source and is run through Wine…Chromium is open source, and yes, native!

However…I still think time is needed. I have given Chromium a very good play and find that there are still many bugs and missing items for anybody other than a really low-level user. For example: Chromium does not have an MIME application chooser. I want it to open videos with VLC - no dice, it will only open them with mplayerplugin and I cannot seem to change this. Also, I installed the adblock add-on above, however there is no add-on manager, so I can’t readily figure out if it’s actually installed.

There are some bugs that I notice too, but seeing as this is an alpha build of Chromium I won’t get into them - they are minor and one should expect these things.

That said, when I go to the Google’s “V8 Benchmark Suite”, Chromium (v4.0.221.7 (Ubuntu build 28103)) scores a whopping 3573 when Firefox (v3.0.14) - on the same connection and computer - scores a modest 228…

I WANT to use Chromium…but it just doesn’t fit my needs yet.