Developer Version of Google Chrome for Linux available

[hybrid]

In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software. 

How incomplete? So incomplete that, among other things , you won't yet be able to view YouTube videos, change your privacy settings, set your default search provider, or even print.

 

Meanwhile, we'll get back to trying to get Google Chrome on these platforms stable enough for a beta release as soon as possible!

 

At the moment, there are only .deb packages available (for x86 and x86-64), but if you have a Debian or Ubuntu installation, you should check out this really quite speedy new browser.

 

Source

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And it certainly looks good (well, if the rest of the system was blue themed) and feels signficantly more snappy than Firefox on the same system.

 

Far from done, but it looks like incredible progress has been made towards it being a finished browser on this platform.

 

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[anyweb]

looks nice except for that brown stripe at the top

 

:P

[hybrid]

Heh :P

 

The interesting thing is that Chrome on both Windows and Linux can put the tabs up in the top of the window title bar, but X11 doesn