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2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the ooh-shiny dept.

AlienRancher writes "Google launched this morning a new beta version of Chrome 2.0: 'The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.' Other enhancements include user script support (greasemonkey-like) and form auto-fill." And reader Lee Mathews adds news of the open source version, Chromium, on Linux: "Not only has Chromium gotten easier to take for a test drive thanks to the personal package archive for Ubuntu Chrome daily build team, but development on the browser is also progressing nicely. Despite being a very early build, Chromium on Linux feels solid and boasts the same blazing speed the Windows users have been enjoying for months."

3 of 258 comments (clear)

  1. Still waiting... by egcagrac0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Chrome on Linux. Any decade now. (Chromium isn't quite the same.)

  2. Re:FANTASTIC! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    u need to apt-get waaaaambulance

  3. Just installed chromium on Intrepid... by booyabazooka · · Score: 2, Funny

    time chromium
    WARNING: could not read config file (/home/chris/.chromium)
    WARNING: could not read score file (/home/chris/.chromium-score)
    randomizing.
    SDL initialized.
    X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
        Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
        Minor opcode of failed request: 19 (X_GLXQueryServerString)
        Serial number of failed request: 11
        Current serial number in output stream: 11

    real 0m0.221s
    user 0m0.088s
    sys 0m0.012s

    That's SO FAST! I've never had a browser run less than a second before!