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Running the Chromium browser on Ubuntu 8.04 with CrossOver Chromium (HowtoForge)

[Posted October 9, 2008 by cook]

HowtoForge presents a tutorial on running the Chromium browser under Ubuntu 8.04. "Chromium is an open-source browser project that is the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Right now, Chromium doesn't support Linux natively, but Codeweavers has created a Linux port called CrossOver Chromium that can be installed free of charge. This guide shows how to install CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu 8.04."

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Posted Oct 16, 2008 14:09 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]

Chromium is quite nice but I found some of the fonts used were horribly pixellated, and it doesn't include any security updates, so it's best used on friendly sites only - see http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/. Google really needs to get the Linux version done...

Running the Chromium browser on Ubuntu 8.04 with CrossOver Chromium (HowtoForge)

Posted Nov 7, 2008 3:31 UTC (Fri) by npj (guest, #4267) [Link]

Yeah, there's something odd happening with the fonts or text rendering, which means that lines of text don't come out straight. Instead of the bottom of the characters forming a neat line, it's like the letters are resting on a slightly wavy line, which looks quite strange. Anyway, it's fun to play with this Wine version to check it out, but if Google made a native Linux version with DEB/RPM/etc packages for AMD64, then I'd certainly install that.