Native Google Chrome (Chromium) pre-alpha release

Well I'm going to take the Chromium teams advice, and not make any silly rash claims about this release, apart from the fact then when installed from PPA repositories that it works fine with Ubuntu 8.10 - fully patched.

There are ,as the team tell you from moment one, many things that don't work, and it is nothing more at this stage than a proof of concept , and to show how far along the trail the developers have come, a big thank you by the way to those guys.

To show just how raw this is, when you have installed the browser, a terminal window opens in the background, so you can see any/all the errors as they happen, obviously for debugging.

The one overriding impression is just how fast this is, it is worth trying just to look at for this reason alone. Many buttons don't work, as don't the tabs, but then you were warned, and it is pre-alpha, and should not be judged on any of these issues.

Give it a test run, just to see were it is at, and look at the speed , and ignore the issues , which are there.

Simply add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

# added for Chromium support

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

Then add this repository key to your software-sources

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Then just run these commands to install.

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

Have fun ;-)