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Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by mattyb » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:36 PM UTC

truebosko wrote: post #25

igorgue wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

take a look in synaptic, searching for "chromium" and you'll find that there is a separate package for the dev tools

Thanks! I will give this a try shortly.

For those installing via aptitude/apt-get, it's called "chromium-browser-inspector".

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by stanley » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:45 PM UTC

keyist wrote: post #10

For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security. Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...

Iron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64).

Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by jsz0 » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:48 PM UTC

tsuraan wrote: post #23

smanek wrote: post #13

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What's the alternative? Even if it encrypts the password before storing them on disk, the encryption/decryption key are necessarily on disk anyways, no?

Every desktop environment that I'm familiar with (OSX, KDE, Gnome) has a built-in password manager to hook into, that stores the data encrypted and prompts the user for a master password in some configurable way. I'm guessing that if the OSX and Linux variations of Chrome get any traction, hooking into the password manager will probably be done. I have no idea if Windows has a password manager, but I don't know why i…

The OSX version seems to use KeyChain.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by pyre » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

stanley wrote: post #32

keyist wrote: post #10

For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security. Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...

Iron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64). Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?

I've been running daily builds of Chrome and Chromium without flash issues. I don't update regularly though. My 'daily builds' are probably 1.5-2 months old. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit though.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by kylemathews » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

stanley wrote: post #32

keyist wrote: post #10

For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security. Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...

Iron works great but has issues with Flash (Ubuntu 9.10 x64). Can anyone confirm if Linux Chrome plays well with Flash?

For the past ~2 months or so, Linux Chrome has worked really well with flash -- as good or better than Firefox. They seem to be running a windows version of flash -- or at least the few times flash has run into an endless loop and I have to kill it via top, the process name is "exe".

Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved. For times like this, I just reopen the page in Firefox.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by pyre » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:53 PM UTC

alec wrote: post #9

Stores passwords in plain text on disk: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25404&#38... I noticed that detail when I was trying out Chromium a while back, and it still hasn't been fixed. It seems like a simple but basic security feature. I don't know what else isn't done yet, but it does make me worry. No guarantees that Firefox isn't doing similar things I'd object to, but I don't know about them, so…

How about just not using the browser to store you passwords?

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by pyre » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:55 PM UTC

truebosko wrote: post #24

drp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To get to the firebug-ish dev tools, right click and select "Inspect Element", or pull down on the "Control" menu (top right) and you should see a Developer menu.

I see the Developer menu, but "Developer Tools" is not listed on my Ubuntu build like it is on my Windows build. :/ I'm pretty sure I can't Inspect Element on my ubuntu build either, but I will try it when I get home.

If you hook into the Google repo, the unstable Chrome builds have "Inspect Element", but the daily PPA builds of Chromium haven't for me. As I stated earlier though, I haven't updated them for a couple of months though.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by pyre » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC

rufugee wrote: post #8

Great...looks slick and runs fast...but with comments like this ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/ ), how can I trust it?

Then run Chromium instead of Chrome. It's an open-source project. Inspect the code if you like.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by hussong » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC

Wait, you can resize the comment field? Quite handy, doesn't work with Gecko-based browsers nor Opera...

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by pyre » Tue, Dec 08, 2009, 9:02 PM UTC

andrewcooke wrote: post #3

just don't use it for anything you'd rather keep private, i guess...

Then run Chromium instead of Chrome. Inspect the code if you are wary about your privacy on the browser.