Google Chrome Beta Officially Released For Linux

By , Published December 8, 2009

No major tech site is currently reporting on this, but (Edit: 45 minutes later the rest of the big tech sites catch up! yet another OMG!Ubuntu! first€¦) The Google Chrome Beta for Linux is now available officially from google.com/chrome. Prior to this Linux users had to use a pre-beta dev version via the chromium.org development site.


Whilst no official statement has been made yet heralding this official release Edit: Announcement has since been made.

It is available now from google.com/chrome in easy install packages for most major distributions.

Dev Channel
Users wishing to remain on the bleeding edge of Google Chrome’s development can still install the dev channel version @ http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Linux

Give Chrome For Christmas?
Eagle-eyed spotters may notice a link at the bottom of the download page titled ‘Give Google Chrome for Christmas’. The link directs to ‘www.givechrome.com’ however this returns a 404…

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/TheSpecs Luke Dixon

    Your link directs to http://oogle.com/chrome ;)

    Although i do like to Oogle at Chrome :)

  • Eddie

    Has anyone else found that this beta build to be much slower than Dev?

  • http://twitter.com/SeifSallam Seif Sallam

    at last

  • yellerKat

    Givechrome now says:

    “We’re working on wrapping your present. Please check again in a few hours.”

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Ooooh!

  • martin

    has bookmark-syncing disappeared in beta for everyone or just me?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It’s not working the dev version either without an –enable-sync flag

    • http://disqus.com/forums/omgubuntu/awn_new_features_download/trackback/ John

      Yup gone for me too :(

    • Anonymous

      mine seems to have worked fine, for everything, although I did not use the pre-beta. Maybe this is why?

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t like Chromium, and I’m sure I won’t like chrome either, Firefox all the way for me. I think it’s a far more stable and secure browser than those I’ve mentioned, also Opera is a terrible browser I found, getting java and flash to work was poor.

  • Anonymous

    Integrates poorly with GTK imo, just due to the horrid blue bar…. Why can’t I select the colour I want to use for it? The GTK theme setting works badly. I’m using dust, yet it makes the bar PURPLE?!?!?!

    Also feels rather “fisher-price” Theres no advanced features easily accessible.

    Still an interesting browser that I’m keeping my eye on, gave up on firefox years ago.

    • http://sharkbaitbobby.blogspot.com/ sharkbait

      Yeah, the top bar color is often hit-or-miss. Having been using the daily Chromium builds for a while, I’ve noticed that the tint and brightness of the top bar have changed without me changing my theme (i.e. the developers changed how it works), so it could be improved in time, especially with more testers.

      Personally, I use and like this theme with the native Gtk doesn’t look so good: https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/theme_glow.html

  • Martini1179

    For anyone who’s downloaded the Beta, does anyone know its version number? If so, is it different from the Chrome dev version that was pushed out to Ubuntu users today (4.0.249.30)?

  • http://www.shirtees.net/ Shirtees.net

    I am really liking Google Chrome and have it installed the past few weeks now. I just installed this official version. I cannot get sound to work in flash videos like youtube and I cannot get java to work at all. At home youtube works fine, but also no java. Any suggestions? Thanks!

    • http://www.shirtees.net/ Shirtees.net

      These problems happened on the beta version before this official beta release as well.

  • http://interesting.co.nz Benjamin Humphrey

    You beat me to it!! Damn time zone differences… I only just got the email :)

  • Prestone

    Google chrome unstable ultima atualização = versão 40.249-30 ok tested
    Google chrome beta = versão 40.249-30 ok tested

  • Rachel

    Is anyone else seeing anything odd with fonts on google chrome?

    I have helvetica (and helvetica neue) installed and helvetica neue is set as my default system font and default font for chrome.

    However on google chrome if the style sheet specifies helvetica, I see arial (which I uninstalled in a fit of typeface-rage). In epiphany-webkit I see something else (looks like a mangling of arial and lucida unicode) and on firefox I see helvetica.

    When there is no font specified and I’m browsing on chrome, I see helvetica neue but the very tops of the letters appear to be chopped off.

    It is driving me slightly batty. Ok,very batty. I have screenshots and other font nerds have verified the oddity. They’re not on linux so can’t replicate it.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Ooooh… That would rive me slightly batty too! I’ll install Helvetica and set it as my system font etc and see if it get the same.

  • Snuff

    Not sure why but i just don’t like the ‘feel’ of it – i will stick with Opera & Firefox for the time being and wait for Midori.