Google Chrome for Linux goes stable
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Since the initial beta release of Google Chrome for Linux last December, we've been hard at work adding the polish necessary to upgrade the browser to our stable channel.
With continued improvements in plugin support, extensions functionality, and desktop integration, as well as new features such as desktop notifications and bookmark sync, we believe this release of Google Chrome for Linux to be a solid, high-performance, fully-featured, all-purpose browser. From the early porting days of layout test fixing, deep and hairy posix and raw X11 code, to designing a truly native UI and building a host of new and polished features, we’re thrilled to work with the larger community to deliver a fast, stable, secure, and sophisticated browser.
Going forward, we are committed to continuing to deliver all the security, performance, and features (old and new) of Google Chrome for Windows, while integrating as seamlessly as possible with the Linux desktop ecosystem on a variety of popular Linux distributions.
43 comments:
vertex@Symphony said...
Cheers for the Google team !
Chromium became an important part of my desktop, keep up the good work !
The only thing I would like to see (due to similarities and "ease of porting") is a native FreeBSD port ...
Well, let's wait, time will tell, today is an awesome day for Chromium and GNU/Linux !!
May 25, 2010 9:15 AM
Ruben said...
Congratulations! Thanks for this project. "Faster is Better", and chrome is the fastest! I love using it in all my systems. For work, for fun... windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04, Arch Linux... and it always feels like chrome is the best. Once again, thanks google team! I love your way to code!
May 25, 2010 9:37 AM
krishnababu said...
May 25, 2010 9:42 AM
krishnababu said...
Thanks for Chrome-Linux. My desktop feels complete with it.
May 25, 2010 9:42 AM
Lisak said...
How come that linux version of chrome doesn't have the Label field when bookmarking ? It's one of the most important things to add a tag to a bookmark, and we can't :-/
May 25, 2010 9:46 AM
Lazar Laszlo said...
Good work!
The best browser for Linux based netbooks.
It really flies on my old EeePC 701.
May 25, 2010 9:55 AM
Inaimathi said...
Does this mean I can finally type "apt-get google-chrome"
or do I still need to bother with physically clicking on a link somewhere?
May 25, 2010 9:55 AM
Jim Robert said...
Been using chrome as my default browser with ubuntu, great job guys :) keep it up
May 25, 2010 9:56 AM
Jagan said...
Congratulations Google team!! Looking forward to it. Love Chrome. Good work!!!!
May 25, 2010 10:18 AM
Reuel said...
Que ótimo. Mais um ponto pro Linux :D
May 25, 2010 10:20 AM
kpprom said...
I've been using Chrome on Linux from day one and it has been quite stable for a while. A good thing to have a stable release, and chromium is available in the Ubuntu repos now too.
Now if only we could have single click url selection back, triple clicking is annoying.
May 25, 2010 10:53 AM
Allemensen said...
That's great! I really love the browser.
Now the only thing left is the 'truly native UI'. Because currently it is anything but native, and awfully alien compared to rest of my system.
May 25, 2010 11:12 AM
Iuri Fiedoruk said...
Thank you Google and Chromium developers!
Google Chrome (I use Chromium for testing sometimes also) for Linux and QtCreator are the two most important tools in both my desktop and my aspire one.
May 25, 2010 11:28 AM
Yogi said...
My favourite web browser.Can't wait gonna try html 5 features.
May 25, 2010 11:29 AM
Iuri Fiedoruk said...
@Inaimathi - in ubuntu (and probally debian) the .deb package you download from www.google.com/chrome, will add google repository when installed. Or you can add it manually and install chrome via apt-get.
Due to it's non-open-source nature, as chrome is not chromium, I do not expect google chrome in the oficial repositories for a while. But hey, skype just get in, so I supose it is just a matter of time ;)
May 25, 2010 11:31 AM
George Moschovitis said...
Chrome rocks! The latest version on Ubuntu even has the window buttons on the left (now If we had window shadow the integration would be perfect).
May 25, 2010 1:05 PM
kurmen said...
@Inaimathi: chromium-browser is in lucid and sid, as well as a daily ppa since Hardy — sudo aptitude install chromium-browser , eventually preceded by sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily . I don't remember the url of the google-chrome deb, and there's an eula to read beforehand.
May 25, 2010 1:06 PM
lapo said...
Native Chromium/FreeBSD exists... and would probably like to receive a grant to finish the work faster. ;)
May 25, 2010 1:31 PM
Jani said...
chrome for mac is also called stable from now.
info was posted on googlemac.blogspot at 8:59am. i downloaded chrome ca. one hour later and it's still beta, of course.
i've checked a few minutes ago, now the stable version can be downloaded.
May 25, 2010 1:57 PM
Umbra said...
i'm running #! linux, it's based off Ubuntu (for now), and you can sudo apt-get chrome or use synaptic. i did download the .deb first tho, and un-installed the beta first tho. then when i initially opened the .deb (prior to actual install), it said "available in software channel" so i just went back to synaptic and poof, there it was! def gotta get the repo recognized on the system first tho, but it's a cakewalk any way you do it, esp if it's a fresh install. btw, didn't completely remove the beta (which was stable anyway), just uninstalled, and it carried my bookmarks, pref, etc. over to my shiny new officially stable version.
May 25, 2010 3:00 PM
Anthony Fox said...
I love Chrome, thank you very much.
May 25, 2010 3:26 PM
Rich said...
Awesome - will we ever see a ChromiumTK? I'd love to have a fast, google-made tool kit to use in my apps.
May 25, 2010 3:35 PM
s.gopal said...
A suggestion- With such regular updates/revisions can you please provide the current version number on the download page or download link.
May 25, 2010 5:56 PM
O Editor deste Blog said...
Thanks Google team!!!!
May 25, 2010 7:12 PM
Ujjwol Lamichhane said...
Still there are many issues in chrome regards encoding of complex (Indic) Scripts in Linux, which is fine in Windows.
May 25, 2010 7:51 PM
wyclif said...
I'm currently running Chromium 5.0.342.9 on Ubuntu. What is the difference between Chromium and stable Chrome for Linux? Do I need to delete Chromium before installing Chrome stable?
I ran apt-get upgrade chromium just now, and I'm told "apt apt-transport-https apt-utils" upgraded, not Chromium. What am I missing?
May 25, 2010 9:45 PM
Paul Weiss said...
Omg, so has auto-scroll been finally added?
May 25, 2010 10:20 PM
Manuel said...
Thank you for both your and the whole community hard, fantastic work: i really enjoy this browser from the early days and it really is a great piece of software.
Congratulations to all the coders that made it possible!
May 26, 2010 3:31 AM
Mitch074 said...
Does Chrome(ium) supports alternate stylesheets now?
No?
Well then, not for me.
May 26, 2010 4:02 AM
Lev said...
sweet! Chrome has been solid for me for months already. It's way faster than any other mainstream browser.
May 26, 2010 3:11 PM
Andy said...
thanks for supporting linux google, you rock! Chrome by far is the best browser on linux. Its stable, fast and sexy :D
May 26, 2010 6:19 PM
Eugene said...
Big thanks! Google Chrome Team for releasing the stable version... downloading now to change my beta version with my GNU/Linux.
May 27, 2010 2:15 AM
Jim Ramia said...
Big up Google Team!!
May 27, 2010 4:47 AM
John said...
Only thing I would like in a future update would be a RSS reader right in the browser. One stop shopping!!
Thanks Google!!!
May 27, 2010 6:56 AM
Stony said...
Again Thanks Google for such a fast stable COMPATIBLE as near of standard compliance that I have ever used in native under Linux !
Great job (and thanks for the extra pressure on adobe to update theyr flash plugin)
May 27, 2010 8:26 AM
Dennis I. said...
Downloading it as soon as I get home!
May 27, 2010 11:21 AM
Theinvisibleman said...
Please Make Portable Google Chrome Auto Update!!
Google chrome portable
download portable Google chrome
thank you for new update
just make the portable version
auto update!
thx
tal
May 27, 2010 12:06 PM
Manojr Tiwari or mannuforall said...
Thats great I'm waiting for it from a long time.
Thanks team.
May 27, 2010 8:50 PM
Richie v said...
*Sings*
I love you gooooogle, oh yes I doooo-ooo.
With the new iteration of the developer tools, FireFox may now R.I.P.
May 28, 2010 11:41 PM
Matias said...
Any ideas where to get prepos and packages for newest Chromium (6.0.xxx.0)to PCLINUX 2010? I have already installed Chromium 5.0.388.0 via package manager but still looking forward the newest version.
May 29, 2010 4:07 AM
Pat said...
On May 30, I used the Ubuntu Update Manager to install several updates, inlcuding the Google Chrome stable version.
But when I launch the browser and click "About Google Chrome," it still says "beta" (even after rebooting) -- even though the version number seems to be correct ("5.0.375.55 beta").
What gives? I thought this was supposed to be the stable version?
May 30, 2010 10:24 AM
Slavoljub Krisan said...
@Pat You need to deinstall beta then repeat procedure via Update Manager to install stable version.
May 30, 2010 10:40 AM
V-Pills said...
Why not combine the Go button with the refresh button?? For example let's set a function that check the last hash of an address bar, if the hash of the "new" address is the same as the last one (meaning it is the same address then the button is the "refresh" button), if someone for example puts in a new address thus changing the hash which then differs with the last one then the refresh button changes to Go button!! If we open the new tab then hash is naturally zero? so ANY change will trigger the appearance of the Go button. Vpills
September 23, 2010 12:19 PM
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