Comments on: Install Google Chrome on Linux (and why you should)

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:03:38 +0000

Just a quick way to get Chrome running (with flash support) on Ubuntu Karmic

1. Go to System > Administration > Software Sources.

2. Open the TAB, Third Party Software. And click on add.
Enter the following APT lines to the dialog:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

3. Clicka add again and enter :

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

4. In the terminal, type:
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keryserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 4E5E17B5

5. Install Chrome by entering the following (still in the terminal) :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Easy as pie and since you now got the key updating Chrome will be a breeze.

By: The Viking

The Viking — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:09:39 +0000

Over on Ubuntu 9.10, Pentium 4 with 512Mb, it works very well. Hasn’t crashed yet. On a similar Kubuntu, doesn’t work with some flash sites. I haven’t picked up why not, given the Kubuntu is of a similar vintage (the latest at this time), though it could be that I’m running it on a Pentium 3 with 384 Mb. Flash works on Firefox fine for the same site, so I don’t know what’s going on.

Love the speed. Only 4 seconds to start, now that’s how programs SHOULD behave!

By: Jack H.

Jack H. — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:16:49 +0000

Blazing speeds. Here are my specs:

Dell Precision M70
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Method of Internet Connection: Wifi
Password Protected Netowrk?: Yes

By: Keith Smith

Keith Smith — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:56:51 +0000

Installed amd64 on Ubuntu 9.04 on a whim.

Memory Footprint blows FF3’s leaky setup. I used to restart FF3 once it gobbled a gig or two (ps -elf). The only thing I would like to have is a mozplugger type setup. Flash worked great for me. There is no question this is MUCH faster than FF3, and much more capable than Midori or other light weight browsers. The nice thing is closing a tab reduces the memory footprint. What an amazing concept. :)

By: gerald

gerald — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:59:43 +0000

pete,
you’d rather fear that a brick out of the blue sky hits your head than that google finds and mis-uses your data!
while this sounds like a short sweeping statement, it can be proved. by arguments. want tom hear them here?
or via ggamauf@gmail.com

By: pete

pete — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:52:58 +0000

Well, i rather stick to browsers like midori or opera or ff… and i actually wonder how many people also in the linux-world simply don’t think about googles data-colleting-habits…, which keep me away from them and their search engine: i want my screen ad-free, and other search-engines are also fine…

By: none

none — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:09:12 +0000

Works Great on Linux Mint 7 Gloria. Just installed the deb and voila, functions perfectly. There’s an odd bug here or there, sometimes when i log onto my college internet through chrome, it doesn’t load any pages (perpetual loading sign) until i restart it. Other than that though, very smooth.

By: Mihir Patel

Mihir Patel — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:02:45 +0000

Hello,

I read your post it’s very nice but i would like to suggest one link to Installing Google Chrome for Linux It’s Applied for Ubuntu and Fedora

Visit this link :- http://blog.ask4itsolutions.com/2009/10/19/installing-google-chrome-on-linux-fedora-ubuntu/

Hope you all like it….

Regards,
Mihir
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By: David

David — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:49:12 +0000

Installed on Ubuntu 8, celeron 700mhz fresh install
Downloaded and opened with package installer, installed the lib3 automatically, opened, and no flaws yet, a little lagey when opening options, by probably my cpu speed.

It is much faster IMO then FF3 on a 700 mhz machine.

Cheerio

By: gerald

gerald — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:10:33 +0000

the functions are there. but it’s much slower than firefox (3.0)

By: Vlad

Vlad — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:07:18 +0000

I would love to use Chrome on Linux, but currently it lacks a lot of functions

By: gerald

gerald — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:06:08 +0000

this is not my experience. installing chrome slowed down my machine considerably. i continue to use firefox 3.x. with the google toolbar i get what i love most from chrome.

By: Deitrich

Deitrich — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:42:03 +0000

Installed it on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit version. It is much much faster than Firefox. For so many computer programs I wonder ‘with processors able to do so many calculations per second why does this program run so slow.’ If it takes one second to bring up a web page how many thousands of calculations must a computer be doing to justify that time delay?

Well, with Chrome I wonder ‘What did they do, over at Google, to make this so much faster than the competition.’

I really want to know how they made it so fast and why no-one else did the same thing sooner. It is not even done and it works great, except for flash. Thank you Google for not being lazy and rewriting old slow code. No doubt Chrome saved me many many seconds waiting for pages to load.

Chrome should be a lesson for the entire software world. Rewrite old slow code where it matters.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:23:53 +0000

Easy to install? That’s not the Linux way! You should make everything as needlessly complicated as possible because it’s so poorly designed (patched?) that it requires hours of hacking just to run a program. Now THAT’s the Linux way!

By: gerald

gerald — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:22:45 +0000

mike,
and now chrome is installed?
where do i find it?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:00:22 +0000

Hi gamauf,

on Debian Lenny I had the same issue.

Try running
‘apt-get -f install’
which should delete the partially installed google-chrome package and update libnss3* to version 3.12.3.1
Or, you can manually install the packages libnss3-1d and libnss3-dev.
Again, I’m on Debian Lenny, YMMV.

By: larzc

larzc — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:38:30 +0000

i am using kubuntu 9.04 kde exspansion, and it works perfectly for me. hasnt crashed once and my flash is working unlike the dev’s said it wouldnt work.

By: Enable flash and use themes in Google Chrome Linux

Enable flash and use themes in Google Chrome Linux — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:01:53 +0000

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By: g a gamauf

g a gamauf — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:23:55 +0000

(Reading database … 46137 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace google-chrome-unstable 4.0.203.2-r24690 (using google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb) …
Unpacking replacement google-chrome-unstable …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of google-chrome-unstable:
google-chrome-unstable depends on libnss3-1d (>= 3.12.3); however:
Version of libnss3-1d on system is 3.12.0.3-0ubuntu0.8.04.4.
dpkg: error processing google-chrome-unstable (–install):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
google-chrome-unstable

By: BroknDodge

BroknDodge — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:00:51 +0000

Posting from Chrome on Ubuntu 9.04. Has worked flawlessly for the last month. Tried to install on my Slackware based VectorLinux laptop. Had to crack open the .deb and copy over the contents by hand. After making to appropriate simlinks, Google Chrome will run, but it crashes very early. Sometimes on the first page visited, sometimes on the third. But certain pages always crash chrome. This may be related to CSS, but i have noticed a problem with the SSL provided by Firefox. Still working on it tho, I’m sure I just missed some critical simlink from the .deb package.