Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux!

[Tadeas]

Well, I've tried the beta (like everybody probably) and I'm not impressed at all. The speed of loading pages might be slightly better than Iceweasel's, however it seems much slower than Konqueror (KHTML) to me and it often freezes the loading of a page for up to a second what makes it pretty slow and laggy - this happens with about every second or third page, even those that have already been visited so the images and all should be cached...
So for now, no, thanks. I'll definitely stay with Konqueror and Iceweasel where there are compatibility problems.

[AdrianTM]

Ok I found out the reason my box wouldn't play WMV files was it was using VLC to open the thing and for whatever the reason that wasn't working correctly. (read not at all).......It appears I'm gonna have to test this browser further. I'm not sure about the speed on my faster debian box but, it' appears to be a little faster and lighter weight on my Old Inspiron 4000 laptop running slackware and only 600 mhz. So as it stands now, it's all working and I'm posting on it here now.

@nadir......Thanks buddy you made me keep at it ...

I'm sorry that I accused you of FUD, but that's how it looked like to me, I haven't had any such problems with Chrome and you suddenly claimed that many sites don't work, video doesn't work, etc. I'm glad you solved your problems.

BTW, couple of additional things that I enjoy about Chrome, when I upgrade it I don't have problems with extensions stop working (even though this is experimental and it attention me that extension might stop working) also when I try new extension I don't need to restart the browser (like you know what browser) extensions just work.

[mojoman]

I've just skimmed this thread so if this has been whined about already, then I'm sorry.

Fonts. Old gripe though I must say I myself rarely have a problem with fonts. I love the way Iceweasel (or any other browser I have installed such as Konqueror, Opera and Midori) renders my fonts. Fact is that just about any program I have installed renders fonts somewhere between beautiful and at least acceptable. Yuk! Horrible is the only word I can think of. I changed the fonts to the setting I have in iceweasel but that didn't do any good.

What do you guys think? Is chrome rendering fonts nicely for you?
/mojoman

[sir fer]

SRWare Iron (for linux) renders very nicely...YMMV with chrome betas tho

[deach]

Ok I found out the reason my box wouldn't play WMV files was it was using VLC to open the thing and for whatever the reason that wasn't working correctly. (read not at all).......It appears I'm gonna have to test this browser further. I'm not sure about the speed on my faster debian box but, it' appears to be a little faster and lighter weight on my Old Inspiron 4000 laptop running slackware and only 600 mhz. So as it stands now, it's all working and I'm posting on it here now.

@nadir......Thanks buddy you made me keep at it ...

I'm sorry that I accused you of FUD, but that's how it looked like to me, I haven't had any such problems with Chrome and you suddenly claimed that many sites don't work, video doesn't work, etc. I'm glad you solved your problems.

BTW, couple of additional things that I enjoy about Chrome, when I upgrade it I don't have problems with extensions stop working (even though this is experimental and it attention me that extension might stop working) also when I try new extension I don't need to restart the browser (like you know what browser) extensions just work.

Thanks. I was honestly having problems with it. Interestingly enough, I just installed it in my old slackware laptop and it's working better there (not faster but better) than on my sid box. (which is much faster). I guess I'll keep digging to try to make it work right. Honestly I like it so far, now that I've got it working better. thanks for the tips!!

[m_l]

I've just skimmed this thread so if this has been whined about already, then I'm sorry.

Fonts. Old gripe though I must say I myself rarely have a problem with fonts. I love the way Iceweasel (or any other browser I have installed such as Konqueror, Opera and Midori) renders my fonts. Fact is that just about any program I have installed renders fonts somewhere between beautiful and at least acceptable. Yuk! Horrible is the only word I can think of. I changed the fonts to the setting I have in iceweasel but that didn't do any good.

What do you guys think? Is chrome rendering fonts nicely for you?
/mojoman

I too had problems with font rendering in Google Chrome. Tried Iceweasel's settings and that did not help. So I will stick with Iceweasel.

[justaguynpc]

jackiebrown:I trust the sidux devolpers as much a I trust anyone I don't personally know. And my respect for them went up when they made it clear they did not support that hack upgrade script that served only to scare new users against using apt.

I suppose you are referring to the smxi script? Just curious, what is it about smxi you don't like? I use it, but am not really aware of any concrete negative influences it may have on sidux. To be fair, I walked away from the whole issue because I really didn't understand the bone of contention sidux had with h2 or his script, would you mind educating me ........ ?

BTW, I am unable to manage quicktime playback on this machine, never have, where should I look to start troubleshooting that? I know this may not be the correct forum, but I am using chromium atm without any other problems. I am sure the quicktime issue is my ignorance, I just hadn't been worried enough to ask.............. I have unstable versions of libquicktime1 and quicktime-X11utils installed.

Thanks

[craigevil]

jackiebrown:I trust the sidux devolpers as much a I trust anyone I don't personally know. And my respect for them went up when they made it clear they did not support that hack upgrade script that served only to scare new users against using apt.

I suppose you are referring to the smxi script? Just curious, what is it about smxi you don't like? I use it, but am not really aware of any concrete negative influences it may have on sidux. To be fair, I walked away from the whole issue because I really didn't understand the bone of contention sidux had with h2 or his script, would you mind educating me ........ ?

BTW, I am unable to manage quicktime playback on this machine, never have, where should I look to start troubleshooting that? I know this may not be the correct forum, but I am using chromium atm without any other problems. I am sure the quicktime issue is my ignorance, I just hadn't been worried enough to ask.............. I have unstable versions of libquicktime1 and quicktime-X11utils installed.

Thanks

gecko-mediaplayer should play quicktime .
mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 0.9.8

Filename /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so
Plugin Version:
Plugin Description: Gecko Media Player 0.9.8
Video Player Plug-in for QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player streams using MPlayer
$ apt-cache policy gecko-mediaplayer
gecko-mediaplayer:
Installed: 0.9.8-1
Candidate: 0.9.8-1
Version table:
*** 0.9.8-1 0
990 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages


BTW smxi rocks. sidux probably wouldn't even exist without it. Or if it did it would be nothing but a bunch of uber geeks using it. But then again considering how it has fallen on distrowatch and that the #sidux channel rarely has more than 80ppl says alot. bad enough they shun aptitude.

[Jackiebrown]

smxi script is a frontend for apt-get usefull to the type of people that would press y to whatever apt-get said without reading.

It helps breed ignoranent users.

I agree with craig about aptitude. I rarley use apt-get anymore. aptitude really does better with dependency resolving for me.

[dbbolton]

smxi script is a frontend for apt-get usefull to the type of people that would press y to whatever apt-get said without reading.

So why not just use the -y option

[justaguynpc]

Thanks craigevil for the gecko-mediaplayer hint, up and running in iceweasel, I guess I was expecting too much to have it work in chromium. I will have to do some research into chrome/chromium plugins, if they in fact exist.

I really don't care for the mplayer/gtk look in KDE, so I installed kmplayer (seems kplayer is depreciated). Now I "see" mplayer with both the gtk AND the kmplayer look. I thought about toying around with gtk-qt-engine, while having read your howto, seems a little too "kloodgy" for something as small as appearance to worry about at this stage of the game.

Appreciate it!

[Jackiebrown]

smxi script is a frontend for apt-get usefull to the type of people that would press y to whatever apt-get said without reading.

So why not just use the -y option

They would still have to read

I think it pushes bad habit and has kept a lot of sidux users with the old windows type mentality (to scared to administer their own machines) which is why a lot of users left sidux simply for the devs officially stating they did not support that script.

On topic, I hope Chrome gets noscript added soon but apparently it will require new calls to the extension api so that may be a while off. (http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopi ... =10&t=1676)

I wonder if Mozilla extensions will still be able to do this one they loose some access to modify the browser... http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ ... 01409.html

[milomak]

have they added the ability yet of blocking cookies except those you have in a whitelist?

[craigevil]

Holy cow batman it works. Seems importing Firefox settings kills it. Might be my huge bookmakrs list.
chromium-browser:
Installed: 4.0.300.0~svn20100116r36447-0
Candidate: 4.0.300.0~svn20100116r36447-0

[Jackiebrown]

Holy cow batman it works. Seems importing Firefox settings kills it. Might be my huge bookmakrs list.
chromium-browser:
Installed: 4.0.300.0~svn20100116r36447-0
Candidate: 4.0.300.0~svn20100116r36447-0

It is not your bookmark. It kills my broweser to. I saved it as a html file and opened it as a web page and manually recreated a my bookmarks (at least the ones that I frequent the most.)

Firefox has the same problem for me when trying to import html saved bookmarks - except that it doesn't crash... It doesn't actually import anything, either. Opera and Konqueror seem to be the best at importing bookmarks.

[craigevil]

Thanks craigevil for the gecko-mediaplayer hint, up and running in iceweasel, I guess I was expecting too much to have it work in chromium. I will have to do some research into chrome/chromium plugins, if they in fact exist.

I really don't care for the mplayer/gtk look in KDE, so I installed kmplayer (seems kplayer is depreciated). Now I "see" mplayer with both the gtk AND the kmplayer look. I thought about toying around with gtk-qt-engine, while having read your howto, seems a little too "kloodgy" for something as small as appearance to worry about at this stage of the game.

Appreciate it!

I went with Chromium, when I installed it there were aslo two plugin pakcges:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree - Non-free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg - Free ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Browser

This package contains the multi-threaded ffmpeg codecs needed for the HTML5
<audio> and <video> tags. In addition to the free ogg, vorbis and theora codecs,
H.264, MP3 and AAC are also included. See chromium-codecs-ffmpeg if you prefer only
the free codecs

[milomak]

craigevil - are you using this chromium?

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chromium-browser:
  Installed: 4.0.304.0~svn20100122r36841-0
  Candidate: 4.0.304.0~svn20100122r36841-0
  Version table:
 *** 4.0.304.0~svn20100122r36841-0 0
        500 http://frickelplatz.de sid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I am finding it crashes or the pages become unresponsive when I try to go to the extensions page or test java here

EDIT: It's happening with the amd64 deb as well

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google-chrome-beta:
  Installed: 4.0.249.43-r34537
  Candidate: 4.0.249.43-r34537

[craigevil]

craigevil - are you using this chromium?

I was , I gave up on Chrome, not matter what one I use it refuses to load pages. Firefox rocks for me.

[Bro.Tiag]

craigevil - are you using this chromium?

I was , I gave up on Chrome, not matter what one I use it refuses to load pages. Firefox rocks for me.

Did you give up on uzbl as well?

[Jackiebrown]

craigevil - are you using this chromium?

I was , I gave up on Chrome, not matter what one I use it refuses to load pages. Firefox rocks for me.

Craig,

there was a bad upload for a while (assuming you were getting the aw snap error.) It's working now. Also, the import feature from firefox works.