Google Chrome isn't ready
 

Others have probably noticed this already, but I just tried the Google Chrome beta, and wish to share my results. Unless my system has its own proble, Google Chrome definitely needs more work. It made my system extremely slow, almost freezing it, until I gave up and uninstalled it. Besides, only the browser--which is decidedly ugly--works in Linux. A friend wanted to talk with me on the chat application, but I found that it's still Windows-only.

I had a similar experience. If you are a KDE user, Rekonq (once developed, may be a better alternative.

Doesn't do any of that but at least half the time I get a "Aw snap" because pages refuse to load in it , including things like gmail. The pages it does load it loads slower than Firefox.

At least Google is bothering. I understand that the Linux community begged it to, and felt that it was obligated to make Linux software because it has benefited from open-source code.

Same thing with my Chrome... Annoying as heck that it can't load Google's own pages.

Running latest alpha of firefox, much faster tab-switching and page rendering and uses less memory. More stable than the "stable" Firefox.

Hi,

I'm using Google Chrome 5.0.360.5 dev and have not encountered those problems. I'm all the time using it and haven't had any problems yet with pages not loading. Only had some troubles a while ago because of DNS not correctly resolving which resulted in 'freezing'. I also use the dev version on Windows XP laptop I use at work with the same level of satisfaction. I recently switched to Xfce on my Slackware 13, coming from KDE and have used Chrome in both. In KDE Chrome seemed slower.

Kind regards,

Eric

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I have just tried Chromium this week on my xubuntu installation; and it is refreshingly clean however firefox, and midori (and certainly rekonq in my slackware-kde setup) responds better.

Rekonq would be an excellent default browser for slackware once it reaches full stability. Between Konqueror, Seamonkey, firefox and rekonq I still find there are websites that do not work with all but firefox.

I have tried both the 6.0.408.1 dev and the beta 5.0.375.53. With any version if I import Firefox settings Chrome refuses to load any webpages. Just sits there wit the activity thing spinning.

if I install any extensions it does the same thing.


If I leave it alone, no importing, no extensions, with default settings it works for a while. But even then after a few hours it stops loading webpages.

Meanwhile Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100513 Firefox/3.6.4 flies

I've been using google chrome since the linux betas came out and using the current-unstable for the last 2 months. I don't have any of the problems listed above. It doesn't work with gecko-media plugins installed and there is occasional weirdness with buttons on various web pages, but other than that it works just fine for me. I'm currently on 5.0.396.0 dev. It's definitely still beta, but I use it almost exclusively for everything on 3 machines with what I would call only minor annoyances. It's definitely faster than any other browser for me, and for what it's worth, the futuremark peacekeeper benchmarks double firefox and epiphany. Your mileage and opinions may vary of course.

Same experience as damgar with currently google-chrome-6.0.401.1-x86_64. Have been using Chrome for awhile now. I know the history file goes back to 01/01/2010. In the beginning there were quite a few aw-snaps. Sometime in the 5.x series these became almost non existent for me. There is still the occasional extremely annoying bug when center clicking on a link, a new tab does not open. This happens on www.SlackBuilds.org and www.dslreports.com - perhaps others? Also, adblock loads the ads first, then blocks them. Which is quite different and slower on some sites compared to adblock in Firefox/Seamonkey.

Could boil down to the plugins I have (only flash player and jre), or the websites I visit are mundane enough to not trigger the bugs others see. My girlfriend and our room mate are both into that social networking crap. If Chrome on Linux did not work properly with Facebook, Myspace, TMZ, E! .... I'd have two females demanding a fix by now ;)

Between Chrome, Opera, Konq, Firefox, Seamonkey, and the other Mozilla + Webkit browsers, if you are not able to find a web browser to suite your needs, your just being too damn picky :p (IMO)

I'm using Chromium 5.0.342.9, and it works nice.

Pages sometimes load a bit slowly, though.

I am not sure what the relationship between Chromium and Google Chrome is.

I'd never heard of Chromium.

Chromium is chrome without the google branding.

Oh. Like Iceweasel is Firefox without the Mozilla branding (if I recall, not being an Iceweasel user)?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

What distros are you people USING? It works just fine under Fedora 11. I still use Firefox most the time, but Chrome does run.

surprise surprise version 6.0.408.1 dev actually works. rather than screw it up by importing my Firefox settings, I installed the Xmarks extensions to get my firefox bookmarks.


$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-unstable
google-chrome-unstable:
Installed: 6.0.408.1-r47574
Candidate: 6.0.408.1-r47574
Version table:
*** 6.0.408.1-r47574 0
500 http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status