Comments on: How to install Chromium (Google Chome) on Gentoo Linux

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:31:51 +0000

Thanks Jeff for the heads up. I’ve edited the article to make note of this.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:33:41 +0000

FYI .. As of yesterday Aug 27 2009, it appears the Build Bot is building native 64-bit linux builds:

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux-64/

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:47:14 +0000

@Ryan: haha, looking back at it I guess it isn’t French. I’m not sure what made me say it was :)

…always a good sport to poke fun at the French nevertheless.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:05 +0000

Why do you call the THE overlay a French? There is nothing French about it :D

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:58:16 +0000

I recently tried out Google Chrome on my Macbook. The Mac OS X version ran fairly well, but there were a few small glitches and disappointing things that made the experience not as enjoyable as it might otherwise have been.

Overall I think that the Google developers have a decent start on a browser, but it needs more than fancy new tab effects to make it work. It needs more addons, and in that respect it really can’t compete with good old Firefox. :)

Nathan

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:31:43 +0000

@p.: I agree with .yankee on this one. Google Chrome is still relatively a very new browser whereas Mozilla Firefox’s development has spanned back quite a while. It isn’t right to compare them – obviously Firefox is a lot more mature: as can be seen by all the plugins, themes, tweaks, mods, patches, etc. Chrome being fresh is introducing a lot of new ideas (eg: google gears, one process per tab) but lacks Firefox’s maturity.

Which one do I prefer at the moment? That I can answer. At the moment I prefer Chrome.

It’s funny how leaving IE behind raises your expectations of browsers. I personally now find Firefox quite bulky.

By: .yankee

.yankee — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:26:30 +0000

@p.:
I think you might as well ask “a pine seedling vs. full-grown oak?”

By: p.

p. — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:01:49 +0000

Google Chrome vs. Mozilla Firefox?what do you think?

By: Dion Moult

Dion Moult — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:13:08 +0000

@balkira: whoops – I approved the commend as “not spam” before checking your newer one ;) Oh well.

By: balkira

balkira — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:23:46 +0000

ahh don’t bother publishing the previous post, I realized I jumped inadvertently the relevant section.

too much coffee