Comments on: Testing Google Chrome Alpha: Test #1 – Linux

By: 1fastbullet

1fastbullet — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:41:44 +0000

Yes, I think Iron is worth trying to follow the development of and I look forward to the stable version of Iron for Linux.

Meanwhile, I will take your advice and look at your other alternative browsers. I thank you for that.

Finally, it has come to my attention, only today, that there is also portable applications of Iron available, albeit not for my usage (yet). More information about the portable version(s) may be found at the following two links.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php

and

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1657/update-portable-iron-browser-the-easy-way/

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:18:22 +0000

You can also check out my previous article 12 worthy alternative browsers for Linux/ for many other alternative browsers that you can use in Linux

By: Damien Oh

Damien Oh — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:15:48 +0000

Iron seems good. I will definitely keep a close watch on it.

By: 1fastbullet

1fastbullet — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:15:19 +0000

Apologies that this is somewhat (also) off-topic.

In response to Stepenella’s comment, I’d like to say Thank You for the reminder that Epiphany is an option I had forgotten about. I’m thoroughly sick of Firefox’s habit of suddenly crashing for no apparent reason and would dearly love to find a quick, secure, stable browser that is readily customizable to my needs. I will definitely give Epiphany a try.
Too, if Chrome or Iron (Opera?) ever approach the same criteria I’ve mentioned, I have no qualms about using any particular one of them.

By: Stapenella

Stapenella — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:22:23 +0000

I use Chrome on all of my computers, but since it isn’t finished I’ve switched my default browser from Firefox to Epiphany. This was completely based upon speed, and Epiphany is a quick and native Gnome browser. That’s what I will be using until Chrome is usable as an exclusive browser on Linux.

By: 1fastbullet

1fastbullet — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:53:06 +0000

It’s google. It has inherent google invasiveness built in, or at least, it will.

Already, google’s invasive nature and some other privacy/security concerns have become such an issue in the Windows version of Chrome that another browser, something of a Clone Chrome has been introduced. This browser’s name is Iron.

Regarding Chrome as a whole, and the introduction of Iron, you might find the following link of interest.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/the-geek-blog/iron-browser-is-a-privacy-conscious-version-of-google-chrome/

Regarding Iron for Linux, specifically, it is currently in pre-Alpha. More information about this is available at the following link:

http://www.srware.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=382&sid=686edbadb12bcae35f5904841e670f65

By: Scott Beamer

Scott Beamer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:24:49 +0000

It’s not even a beta yet. That’s par for the course.

By: Scott Beamer

Scott Beamer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:23:39 +0000

So you produced the debian packages that can be found here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

By: Scott Beamer

Scott Beamer — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:20:44 +0000

pfft. Yeah right. And after that I’ll produce a cure for cancer.

By: Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Mohamed Marwen Meddah — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:09:03 +0000

I tested Chrome on OpenSUSE and as you said, it’s very good and fast, and quite stable for an alpha. I still fall back to Firefox though for the more complex stuff and whenever I need to read/use Arabic.

Will be trying it on Ubuntu today, but I don’t expect my experience to be any different really.

Looking forward to this moving forward and me being able to use Chrome as my default browser for everything just as with the Windows version.