Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux!

[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.

[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.

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.

Nope, both chrome and chromium from towo's repo just sit there spinning until they give an error about script not working on any Google site including gmail.

Other pages take forever to load, even konq loads faster.

I have removed the config files, reinstalled, purged, reinstalled, no matter what chrome refuses to work for me.

For now I will stick with Firefox and Uzbl. When I get my Touchbook I will try Chrome since it comes preinstalled.

[craigevil]

Hey guess what I am posting from Google Chrome.

$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-beta
google-chrome-beta:
Installed: 4.0.249.43-r34537
Candidate: 4.0.249.43-r34537

No clue how or why it is finally working.

[dbbolton]

First time I tried to run it:

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The program 'google-chrome' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 1238 error_code 8 request_code 12 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Uninstalling, and probably never installing again.

[milomak]

another thing i just noticed, i couldn't copy and paste a picture from chrome to evolution or thunderbird. i was able to do it eith firefox (not iceweasel).

[craigevil]

google-chrome-unstable:
Installed: 5.0.307.5-r37950
Candidate: 5.0.307.5-r37950
Version table:
*** 5.0.307.5-r37950 0
500 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages

Actually seems to work ok, seems to work a bit better than earlier versions. It is one of those beta things that will probably keep getting better.

[kce]

I've had none of the issues that others have had with Chrome. It seems to work fine for me. My only gripe is the fonts but I imagine they'll eventually be addressed.

Chrome runs substantially faster than Iceweasel on my system. The cold load time is about half of what Iceweasel's is.

[milomak]

When I visit a site with multimedia, I get the following (on Sid)

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$ google-chrome                                                                             
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/google-chrome: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x00000000040050e0 ***       
======= Backtrace: =========                                                                                   
/lib/libc.so.6[0x7fc4fd0c7d16]                                                                                 
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6c)[0x7fc4fd0cc9bc]                                                                     
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_connection_handle_input+0xe3)[0x7fc4fa9c5af3]                                    
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0[0x7fc4fa9e29a6]                                                                       
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x22e)[0x7fc4fffae90e]                                           
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0[0x7fc4fffb22c8]                                                                          
/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_iteration+0x80)[0x7fc4fffb23f0]                                           
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(giop_recv_buffer_get+0x5c)[0x7fc4fa9c541c]                                            
/usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0(ORBit_small_invoke_stub+0x165)[0x7fc4fa9c9d85]                                        
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(ConfigDatabase2_lookup_with_schema_name+0xaf)[0x7fc4feba635f]                         
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(gconf_engine_get_fuller+0x20f)[0x7fc4feb9d8af]                                        
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(gconf_engine_get_entry+0x8c)[0x7fc4feb9dc4c]                                          
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4[0x7fc4feba12de]                                                                       
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4[0x7fc4feba14a1]                                                                       
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4(gconf_client_get_bool+0x93)[0x7fc4feba2173]                                           
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so(gm_pref_store_get_boolean+0x43)[0x7fc4ed16c4a3]              
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so(_Z18GetMIMEDescriptionv+0x39)[0x7fc4ed162399]                
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x1527262]                                                                              
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x14fea18]                                                                              
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x150007b]                                                                              
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x15041ba]                                                                              
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x15009d9]                                                                              
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x1501246]                                                                              
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x7d290a]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x98b67e]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x98c568]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x98c771]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x975e4a]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x98ca74]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x9a315a]                                                                               
/usr/bin/google-chrome[0x9971da]                                                                               
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0x7fc4fefd473a]                                                                           
/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x6d)[0x7fc4fd12269d]                                                                     
======= Memory map: ========                                                                                   
00400000-02a2e000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 1310759                            /opt/google/chrome/chrome             
02c2d000-02c45000 rwxp 0262d000 08:01 1310759                            /opt/google/chrome/chrome             
02c45000-02cbf000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                                                        
03c95000-0403f000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]                                
7fc4e8000000-7fc4e8095000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4e8095000-7fc4ec000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4ed15a000-7fc4ed170000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 60767                      /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so                                                                                                    
7fc4ed170000-7fc4ed36f000 ---p 00016000 08:01 60767                      /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so                                                                                                    
7fc4ed36f000-7fc4ed371000 rwxp 00015000 08:01 60767                      /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so                                                                                                    
7fc4ed371000-7fc4ed387000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 61648                      /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so                                                                                                        
7fc4ed387000-7fc4ed586000 ---p 00016000 08:01 61648                      /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so                                                                                                        
7fc4ed586000-7fc4ed588000 rwxp 00015000 08:01 61648                      /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/gecko-mediaplayer.so                                                                                                        
7fc4ed588000-7fc4ed972000 rwxs 00000000 00:04 5931028                    /SYSV00000000 (deleted)               
7fc4ed972000-7fc4ed973000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4ed973000-7fc4ee173000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4ee173000-7fc4ee175000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 51904                      /lib/libnss_mdns4.so.2                
7fc4ee175000-7fc4ee374000 ---p 00002000 08:01 51904                      /lib/libnss_mdns4.so.2                
7fc4ee374000-7fc4ee375000 rwxp 00001000 08:01 51904                      /lib/libnss_mdns4.so.2                
7fc4ee39d000-7fc4ee3bb000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 29041                      /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf                                                                                             
7fc4ee3bb000-7fc4ee3fc000 rwxs 00000000 08:05 392451                     /home/debian/.cache/google-chrome/Cache/index                                                                                                        
7fc4ee3fc000-7fc4ee3fd000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4ee3fd000-7fc4eebfd000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4eebfd000-7fc4eec01000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 281929                     /usr/lib/libcanberra-0.22/libcanberra-alsa.so                                                                                                        
7fc4eec01000-7fc4eee00000 ---p 00004000 08:01 281929                     /usr/lib/libcanberra-0.22/libcanberra-alsa.so                                                                                                        
7fc4eee00000-7fc4eee01000 rwxp 00003000 08:01 281929                     /usr/lib/libcanberra-0.22/libcanberra-alsa.so                                                                                                        
7fc4eef6d000-7fc4eef75000 rwxs 00000000 00:0e 325510                     /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.LXHF0V (deleted)                                                                                                          
7fc4eef85000-7fc4eef8d000 rwxs 00000000 00:0e 325562                     /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.GkGEdQ (deleted)                                                                                                          
7fc4eef8d000-7fc4eef95000 rwxs 00000000 00:0e 325544                     /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.veUvVY (deleted)                                                                                                          
7fc4eef95000-7fc4eef9d000 rwxs 00000000 00:0e 325560                     /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.0lqkjs (deleted)                                                                                                          
7fc4eef9d000-7fc4eeffd000 rwxs 00000000 00:04 5767189                    /SYSV00000000 (deleted)               
7fc4eeffd000-7fc4ef01d000 rwxs 00000000 00:0e 324609                     /dev/shm/com.google.chrome.SeNUPz (deleted)                                                                                                          
7fc4ef01d000-7fc4ef01e000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4ef01e000-7fc4ef84c000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                                                
7fc4ef84c000-7fc4ef8ac000 rwxs 00000000 00:04 5701651                    /SYSV00000000 (deleted)               
7fc4ef8ac000-7fc4ef8fb000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 29036                      /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf                                                                                              
7fc4ef8fb000-7fc4ef91d000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 28806                      /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf                                                                                                  
7fc4ef91d000-7fc4ef91f000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 6367                       /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so                                                                                                       
7fc4ef91f000-7fc4efb1e000 ---p 00002000 08:01 6367                       /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so                                                                                                       
7fc4efb1e000-7fc4efb1f000 rwxp 00001000 08:01 6367                       /usr/lib/pango/1.6.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so
7fc4efb1f000-7fc4efb3d000 r-xs 00000000 08:01 29041                      /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
7fc4efb3d000-7fc4efb5f000 r-xs 00000000 08:01 28806                      /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
7fc4efb5f000-7fc4efb8d000 r-xs 00000000 08:01 20604                      /var/cache/fontconfig/365b55f210c0a22e9a19e35191240f32-le64.cache-3
7fc4efb8d000-7fc4efb92000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 28873                      /lib/libnss_dns-2.10.2.so
7fc4efb92000-7fc4efd91000 ---p 00005000 08:01 28873                      /lib/libnss_dns-2.10.2.so
7fc4efd91000-7fc4efd92000 r-xp 00004000 08:01 28873                      /lib/libnss_dns-2.10.2.so
7fc4efd92000-7fc4efd93000 rwxp 00005000 08:01 28873                      /lib/libnss_dns-2.10.2.so
7fc4efd93000-7fc4efd95000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 51905                      /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
7fc4efd95000-7fc4eff94000 ---p 00002000 08:01 51905                      /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
7fc4eff94000-7fc4eff95000 rwxp 00001000 08:01 51905                      /lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2
7fc4eff96000-7fc4eff98000 rwxs 00000000 08:05 392455                     /home/debian/.cache/google-chrome/Cache/data_3
7fc4eff98000-7fc4eff9a000 rwxs 00000000 08:05 392454                     /home/debian/.cache/google-chrome/Cache/data_2
7fc4eff9a000-7fc4eff9c000 rwxs 00000000 08:05 392453                     /home/debian/.cache/google-chrome/Cache/data_1Aborted

anything stand out to anyone why it might be crashing?

[milomak]

it seems that my problems were because chrome doesn't play nicely with gecko-mediaplayer