Monday, March 23, 2009

Download Google Chrome for Ubuntu Linux (Pre-Alpha Chromium Build)

Ubuntu Chrome Logo

Google chrome popularity has been increasing day by day even though it is only available for Windows and Users are eagerly waiting for Google chrome to be made available for Mac and Linux. Now here is good news for Linux users.

A Working Pre alpha build of chromium browser for Linux is available in PPA repository, chromium is open source engine behind google chrome. Chromium for Linux has GTK based interface which looks and work like windows interfaces.

Being in Pre Alpha build, chromium for Linux missing many features like bookmarks manager, tab etc. however like google chrome, chromium too renders each website in its own process which can be killed separately

Screenshot of Pre–Alpha Build Chromium for Linux

Chromium For Linux Ubuntu

Run following command to Install Chromium package on Ubuntu

Sudo apt install chromium-browser

PPA for Ubuntu Chromium Daily Builds maintains Ubuntu daily builds of the Chromium browser which is maintained by a bot, so it contains completely untested builds.


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