It would be nice
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| herzeleid Aug 26, 2009 3:46 PM EDT |
Alas, if only chromium would do something, anything, other than to just crash and burn immediately with an error when I launch it, without even drawing a rectangle on the screen. I haven't had the time or inclination to check it out further, but if they did come out with a release that actually runs I would certainly be willing to evaluate it further. |
| flufferbeer Aug 26, 2009 4:30 PM EDT |
Same thing here. The current Chromium is like the GNU Hurd. Supposed to finally run stably "in the next release". Sure it is /sarcasm. |
| krisum Aug 27, 2009 3:15 AM EDT |
I have been using this PPA [url=https://launchpad.net/~fta/ archive/ppa]https://launchpad.net/~fta/ archive/ppa[/url] instead of the chromium-daily PPA which I presumed to be of variable stability. Chromium from this PPA has worked fine for me on hardy and jaunty. As a bonus you also get firefox-3.5/3.6 and thunderbird-3.0 for all of hardy/intrepid/jaunty. IMO chromium looks and feels nice (I use the brushed-metal theme) but after a few days of usage found no particular reason to continue using it specially since it lacks the functionality of addons I have gotten used to in ffox. The tipping point was the observation that it ends up using more CPU and memory that ffox when more than a few tabs are open (probably in absence of adblock etc). Btw, for getting flash to work on 64-bit installations I had to get flash v9 (32-bit) from adobe archive and place in one of the plugins dir (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins worked for me) in addition to starting chromium with --enable-plugins. |
| herzeleid Aug 27, 2009 4:28 AM EDT |
@krisum - I tried google-chrome from the above repo on my 32-bit intrepid box - the results are much the same: jjs@matisyahu:~$ google-chrome [7740:7748:620935623841:FATAL:/b/slave/chrome-official-linux/build/src/chrome/browser/renderer_host/async_resource_handler.cc(145)] Check failed: read_buffer_->data(). Trace/breakpoint trap [7757:7758:620935630346:ERROR:/b/slave/chrome-official-linux/build/src/ipc/ipc_channel_posix.cc(420)] pipe error (9): Connection reset by peer |
| krisum Aug 27, 2009 1:18 PM EDT |
I see no google-chrome in the above repo. All I see is "chromium-browser" package which is what I installed and works for me. Probably you have an installation of chrome dev from google instead of the open source chromium. |
| herzeleid Aug 27, 2009 3:30 PM EDT |
@krisum - Ah, thanks for the sanity check. That will teach me to do package management in the middle of the night. yes, the unstable google-chrome was still lurking around. I must have expected the other repo would have named it the same, not a good assumption. I've explicitly removed the unstable version and I'm all set to put the more stable chromium browser through it's paces. Edit: It makes no difference - The chromium-browser from the repo you suggested crashes immediately on startup :/ jjs@matisyahu:~$ chromium-browser [18948:18951:691308927601:FATAL:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-3.0.198.0~svn20090806r22605/build-tree/src/chrome/browser/renderer_host/async_resource_handler.cc(145)] Check failed: read_buffer_->data(). Trace/breakpoint trap |
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