Sunday, March 22, 2009

Chromium on Linux

So I decided today to make a shot at compiling google chrome on Linux... aaand after a number of compile errors, it works! Here's a screenshot of what you see when you start it up:



Some things I noted about it:
  • It took a long time to connect to many web sites.
  • It crashed a lot
  • There was no tab interface... opening a new tab worked, but you couldn't close it or get back to any old tabs.
  • It caused google to block me
  • No dialog boxes worked... couldn't open the options pane, no about pane, etc...

In short, the browser is not usable yet.

P.S. As you can see in my screenshot, there is a big disclaimer that this browser is NOT READY YET, so DON'T judge the quality of the linux port of chromium using any information you can get about it today!