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Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by sjs »

kylemathews wrote: post #35
stanley wrote: post #32

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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.

That explains a lot! I wondered how Chrome OS got the Linux build of Flash working without X11. I thought they might have a thin X11 lib in their window manager, but I guess they shoe-horned the Windows build into the Linux version of Chrome. Crafty.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by NikkiA »

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...

And for those of us that use xmarks, note that the xmarks alpha support for chrom[e|ium] will NOT work with the 3.0 stable version of iron, but DOES work with the Iron 4.0 beta.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by est »

geocar wrote: post #16
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?

No. You can use a master password to decrypt your encrypted password database. Your operating system might have a keyring service or an encrypted filesystem you can use to store your keys in. You might even use a hardware token, or some specialized on-board hardware for storing your passwords securely.

It's just a matter of time to find the right auto-fill form and replay the HTTP post data.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by mattezell »

jiaaro wrote: post #11

for what it's worth, I've been able to use the chromium daily builds without any problems for about 6 months :)

My experience has been the same.

I have been using the Chromium Ubuntu PPA for about 2 months and have had no issues until this week (details: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=29536 ).

Although crippling to Chromium on my machine, I am sure my newly encountered issues will be resolved shortly, so I am not worried.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by mattyb »

pyre wrote: post #37
truebosko wrote: post #24

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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.

You need to install the "chromium-browser-inspector" package and restart Chromium.

Re: Google Chrome for Linux

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Post by jimmyjim »

I know this isn't 'Chrome Support' - but any idea how I would get the scroll wheel to get working?

edit (i.e., have it be that actually clicking it yields the windows behavior of being in a 'scroll mode' - motioning it down will have me going down the page, instead of actually wheeling it down)

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