TOPIC: CHROMIUM
A late "advance" sighting?
6th June 2009Somewhat infuriatingly, Google released its own browser, Chrome, into the wild near the end of last year, though only for Windows. My experiences with it on that platform are that it works smoothly, albeit without many of the bells and whistles that can be got for Firefox. While an unofficial partial port was achieved using Crossover Chromium and there is the Chromium project with all its warnings and the possibility to add a repository for its wares to Ubuntu's software sources, we have been tantalised rather than served so far. However, that was recently bettered by the release of early access versions. In reality, these can be said to be alpha versions so not everything works, but it's still Chrome and without the need for Windows or WINE. The rendering engine, most importantly, seems to be the equal of what you get on Windows, while ancillary functions like bookmark handling seem incomplete. In summary, the currently available deb packages are a work in progress, yet that's better than not having anything at all.