[Cialug] Google Chromium browser under *buntu: not too bad

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Sat Sep 19 19:40:42 CDT 2009


On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Nathan Stien <nathanism at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lately I have been trying out nightly builds of the linux port of Chrome.
>  It's not quiiiite ready for prime time, but it is definitely fast.  It
> feels a lot more responsive than Firefox, anyway.
> I installed it from this repository and it was pretty painless.  The package
> is called chromium-browser, as there is apparently already a game package
> called chromium in debian/ubuntu.
> https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
> It is more likely to replace Firefox as my main browser once it has an
> Adblock plugin and perhaps something like Vimperator.

I tried it for a while a few months ago and then removed it when I
cleaned up my computer. The font rendering was not good. Is it any
better now?

/me thinks he will give it another shot soon to see

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