CodeWeavers Package Google Chrome For Linux and Mac

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 15, 2008 @07:34AM from the not-to-be-forgotten dept.

jfbilodeau writes "The fine folks at Codeweavers performed an 11 day experiment in getting Google Chrome working on Linux and Mac. Their efforts resulted in the Chromium proof of concept. 'Not only does this give Mac and Linux users a chance to see what all the hype is about, it also lets the world see just how far Wine has come and how powerful it truly can be. In just 11 days, we were able to bring a modern Windows application across to Mac and Linux.' Caveat: their implementation is free as in beer but not free as in speech."

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For those of you using Firefox on linux.... by gardyloo · 2008-09-15 07:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Here's a link to their download location: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?hl=en . I tried getting there using Firefox---excuse me: Iceweasel---on a debian installation, and it wouldn't direct the browser to a place to download. Konqueror kept crashing on their "save as" button. So I copied the link location from Konqueror to Iceweasel, and was able to get it that way. Now I'll try it in the latest Wine...