We barely ended the discussion on Chrome's sandboxing feature and how hard or easy it is to implement such functionality on Mac OS X and Linux, and we have the Chromium project releasing the first builds of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X "officially". Nightly builds for these platforms have been available since earlier this year, but this is the first time the project puts out actual releases for Mac and Linux.
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Member since:2008-06-26
Is it me, or is the URL autocompletion feature completely broken on Linux?
For example, whenever I type "go" I get "google.com" suggested. No problems there. But as soon as I add another "o" the whole word is autocompleted automatically and whatever I add after it gets in the way. It's a weird behavior, and it doesn't happen just with "google.com".
The options menu is completely blank and displays a big "TODO" message, and it doesn't play nice with kwin (doesn't integrate the tab bar with the window bar)--but at least kwin lets you remove the window bar. I don't know how metacity handles that.
It's still alphaish, and I'm still wondering how the hell are they going to deal with the window manager behavior in Linux (since there are so many window managers and it's impossible to jump around all of them), but at least the rest works pretty well.
Edited 2009-06-06 04:04 UTC
Member since:2005-07-11
For example, whenever I type "go" I get "google.com" suggested. No problems there. But as soon as I add another "o" the whole word is autocompleted automatically and whatever I add after it gets in the way. It's a weird behavior, and it doesn't happen just with "google.com".
The options menu is completely blank and displays a big "TODO" message, and it doesn't play nice with kwin (doesn't integrate the tab bar with the window bar)--but at least kwin lets you remove the window bar. I don't know how metacity handles that.
It's still alphaish, and I'm still wondering how the hell are they going to deal with the window manager behavior in Linux (since there are so many window managers and it's impossible to jump around all of them), but at least the rest works pretty well.
Gee, wow, really? Could that be why there's a big "DO NOT DOWNLOAD" message, with all kinds of warnings like "this is an alpha preview for developers"?
Were you expecting it to work correctly?
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2005-11-12
Oh, well, I guess I have to wait more for a Fedora version. Too lazy to compile from source.
I installed the latest nightly build from a Debian package. It is nice to see it working but don't bother downloading for Linux yet. It is *way* too rough. Put it this way: open a new tab, load an URL, crash, reload Chrome. It would drive you mad by the end of the day. There is no possibility even a usable beta for Linux is coming out in the next couple of months. My guess, about 6 months until it is sort of usable on Linux, based on the missing functionality compared to the Windows version.