Chrome on Ubuntu: Install it now, show interest in promoting companies to write Linux software!

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Tue Jun 9 17:47:29 UTC 2009


Orders of magnitude faster? That's blatant fanboyism. It may be somewhat
faster than firefox nightlies, but it's somewhat slower than webkit
nightlies. I run these tests myself.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:09 AM, marc <gmane at auxbuss.com> wrote:

> Dotan Cohen said:
>
> > This post shows how to install the official Chrome 3 Alpha from Google
> > on Ubuntu:
> > http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/06/install-google-chrome-on-linux-and-why-
> you-should/<http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/06/install-google-chrome-on-linux-and-why-%0Ayou-should/>
> >
> > Do it. Let Google see how much interest there is in Linux software.
> > Trust me, it will trickle down.
>
> I've been using it for a few weeks. It's a few orders of magnitude faster
> than firefox - which is so slow on Ubuntu it hurts.
>
> However, I use the daily build Ubuntu ppa:
>
>  https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Echromium-daily/+archive/ppa>
>
>
> --
> Best,
> Marc
>
> "Change requires small steps."
>
>
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