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

By: FFF

FFF — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:55:43 +0000

your the best dude, it works just perfect!!
Better than firefox… //Firefoxfanboy

By: k3mist

k3mist — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:47:06 +0000

Can’t believe how much faster and just overall better chrome is on linux than firefox. The difference is noticable immediately. I’m a web developer and pretty sure at this point with google’s developer tools now on linux, I’ll never be going back to firefox. Running Karmic 9.10

By: deblo

deblo — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:40:22 +0000

I started following the Chrome install instructions on my LinuxMint distro, as detailed above. I clicked the “Try Chrome by Google” button at the end of the article, and I clicked the 32bit debian-ubuntu button. The browser installed automatically. I didn’t even need a command prompt.

Wow, Chrome is way faster than FF.

By: Ryan Northrup

Ryan Northrup — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:48:44 +0000

Just installed the Ubuntu/Debian beta (x86). So far works like a charm, but I’ve noticed a couple of little things:

1) In order to select the entire URL in the top bar, you have to click and drag. In the Windows version, you just have to click.

2) I was going to report that as a bug (since I don’t think Google would purposely drop things like that), but there is no bug report option in the Page menu; likewise, all the support Google provides is for the Windows version, so us Linux users (and the Mac users, too, as far as I can tell) are on our own.

Otherwise, it’s working great, with the same awesome speeds compared to Firefox as it does compared to Internet Explorer on Windows.

By: Zsolt

Zsolt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:40:41 +0000

Well this browser really rocks. Ridiculously fast when loading pages. With low-performance hardware you get troubles when scrolling in linux browsers, but this one is awesome. Install the smoothscroll extension and you will have the most beautiful browsing-experience. You can set the speed and the reaction time. Thanks for this, it’s the first 100% linux browser.

By: eric

eric — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:39:24 +0000

Installed google-chrome on Debian Lenny, but it’s only showing a empty window.
No display of any website. Any solution ?

By: geminijim

geminijim — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:43:27 +0000

I just installed it on a Karmic Xubuntu qemu VM running in Slackware and it seems fine so far. I’ve only given the VM 512MB of memory and it’s otherwise a bit sluggish, but Chrome is faster than FF.

By: cane

cane — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:22:43 +0000

Installed on Debian Lenny 64 bit – works great. Also on Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit on 7 yo machine – works twice as fast as opera / ff. Amazing!

By: prharcopos

prharcopos — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:19:07 +0000

I totally agree!

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
ask4itsolutions.com

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