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   ethana2
   December 9th, 2009 - 20:29

   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.
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   Josh Holland
   December 9th, 2009 - 20:36

   +1 on the logo thing. Main reason I switched
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   Jonathan Carter
   December 9th, 2009 - 20:44

   What doesn’t work with flash in chromium? It seems to work fine for me.
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   Jacob Peddicord
   December 9th, 2009 - 22:27

   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.
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   cmaglaughlin
   December 9th, 2009 - 23:36

   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?
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   Some Dude
   December 10th, 2009 - 04:30

   This pages tells you the difference between the two, http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome
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   Vadim P.
   December 10th, 2009 - 05:25

   Jacob Peddicord :
   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.

   Lol. You make it sound like Google isn’t doing all the work in Chromium to begin with.
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   gastly
   December 10th, 2009 - 05:50

   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
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   Christoph
   December 10th, 2009 - 08:08

   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?
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    Jack
    December 10th, 2009 - 10:34

    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.)
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    Wolfger
    December 10th, 2009 - 13:59

    “One thing I liked, though incredibly insignificant, was the Chrome logo ‚Äì I just prefer the green, red & yellow to the Chromium blueness.”

    No way! The Chromium blueness works so well with the Kubuntu blueness!
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    Matze
    February 13th, 2010 - 23:15

    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.
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    Joel
    February 17th, 2010 - 01:44

    Christoph :
    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?

    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!
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    Ethan Jones
    October 1st, 2010 - 14:24

    Chrome OS is at par with the current GUI release of Linux..`

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