OMG Chrome Beta for Linux is available!!11!!…………………….is all I saw on Twitter/identi.ca the other day. So I figured I’d give it a go, knowing it should be much different from Chromium.
It seems that, somewhat surprisingly, I was wrong. I downloaded the 64 bit .deb file from the chrome site and installed it. Easy enough – there’s also RPM’s for any of you using Fedora etc. One thing I liked, though incredibly insignificant, was the Chrome logo – I just prefer the green, red & yellow to the Chromium blueness.
From what I can gather from various bits of info online, and my own personal use of the browser, it’s very similar to the latest builds of Chromium, except it carries the official Google backing. One thing I did notice though, which is a deal clincher for me right now – is that flash (specifically YouTube & BBC iPlayer, I haven’t tried anything else really)….works! Now I have received a Flash Player update today, but it worked before that 
Another thing that seems to have been fixed is the double posting issue a lot of Linux/Chrome users were experiencing over on Ubuntu Forums – thankfully I haven’t had it happen yet, but I’m keeping an eye on it. I just have the privilege of being able to remove my double posts without having to report it first 
All in all – I’d say it’s definitely worth looking into, especially if you’ve been put off trying Chromium
#1 by ethana2 on December 9th, 2009
Firefox didn’t work nicely with gnome globalmenu, so I was using Epiphany, but it has its odd issues. (Now Firefox doesn’t even /launch/ with a global menu..)
Chrome blows them both away. Far, far, away.
I nominate it for Ubuntu’s default browser.
#2 by Josh Holland on December 9th, 2009
+1 on the logo thing. Main reason I switched
#3 by Jonathan Carter on December 9th, 2009
What doesn’t work with flash in chromium? It seems to work fine for me.
#4 by Jacob Peddicord on December 9th, 2009
What made you think it was different from Chromium? All Google does is pull a stableish revision from the tree, rebrand it, and release it.
#5 by cmaglaughlin on December 9th, 2009
I’m no computer expert. Been using Ubuntu 2 years. Thus, Firefox is very familiar. “Familiarity breeds recognition.” Tried Chrome. Found it to be very confusing. Much ado about nothing. Removed it and came back home. I’ve never had Firefox crash, always been simple to operate. Why mess with success?
#6 by Some Dude on December 10th, 2009
This pages tells you the difference between the two, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome
#7 by Vadim P. on December 10th, 2009
Lol. You make it sound like Google isn’t doing all the work in Chromium to begin with.
#8 by gastly on December 10th, 2009
Chromium is pretty nice and fast, but it still has a long way to go to reach to the ’stable’ state as Firefox is.
All in all it’s pretty good, but the thing I miss most is the lack of ‘autoscrolling’, which every borwser to date has! I know there are some issues with it in Chrome, but oh well, I won’t use it until it gets autoscrolling
#9 by Christoph on December 10th, 2009
does anyone have a similar effect with chrome: when i want it to use the gtk+-theme to blend in with my dust-sand karmic desktop, chrome turns purple in it’s titlebar – why the fck? completely ugly!
how can i change that?
#10 by Jack on December 10th, 2009
I’ve been using as my default it for ages! Flash has been working for me since at-least August. Love it
Sauce: http://jack.kingbrick.co.uk/madness/2009/08/chrome-on-linux
I think Ubuntu should brand a release of Chromium for each distro release. If I was king it would be default, but I appreciate a lot of folks (yourself included) are addicted to Firefox. (I personally dislike using it casually, too slow on the poor old machines I use.)
#11 by Wolfger on December 10th, 2009
“One thing I liked, though incredibly insignificant, was the Chrome logo – I just prefer the green, red & yellow to the Chromium blueness.”
No way! The Chromium blueness works so well with the Kubuntu blueness!
#12 by Matze on February 13th, 2010
I really think that Google Chrome OS is an opportunity for beginners. I don’t know what features there are but I have seen several screenshots that convinced me. Altought I will use Windows 7 because is made my computer faster.
#13 by Joel on February 17th, 2010
I don’t have Dust-sand but I made a Dust theme for Chromium
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bmnhkobodnodgeogkjceeheondfmnjmd
hope you like it!