Google Chrome for Linux Becomes stable

By , Published May 25, 2010

Google Chrome for Linux has finally become 'stable'.

The first pre-alpha release was made almost one year ago on June 4th and the development since then has been breakneck.

In an announcement on the official Chromium blog, Chrome engineers Evan Stade & Elliot Glaysher said:-

€œWith continued improvements in plugin support, extensions functionality, and desktop integration, as well as new features such as desktop notifications and bookmark sync, we believe this release of Google Chrome for Linux to be a solid, high-performance, fully-featured, all-purpose browser.

From the early porting days of layout test fixing, deep and hairy posix and raw X11 code, to designing a truly native UI and building a host of new and polished features, we're thrilled to work with the larger community to deliver a fast, stable, secure, and sophisticated browser.€

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Users can download the first stable release of Google Chrome via the link below.image

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    that made me laugh when i read that it’s Stable – it’s been stable as a rock for me since i began using ubuntu in November

  • http://twitter.com/ZisisMaras zisis maras

    I think i will stick with chromium for now,maybe in the future

  • http://twitter.com/ZisisMaras zisis maras

    I think i will stick with chromium for now,maybe in the future

  • http://twitter.com/syanide1 Syanide

    One question though, will we see a Chromium Stable PPA anytime soon (the way we now have daily ppa and daily beta ppa that mirror dev and beta channels of Chrome)? Not that I’m THAT obsessive over pure FOSS, I just like it more without the Google stuff.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Chromium via the Ubuntu repo’s will be as stable as you’re likely going to get due to the nature of what Chromium is (essentially the testing arm of Google Chrome).

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Chromium via the Ubuntu repo’s will be as stable as you’re likely going to get due to the nature of what Chromium is (essentially the testing arm of Google Chrome).

  • http://twitter.com/syanide1 Syanide

    One question though, will we see a Chromium Stable PPA anytime soon (the way we now have daily ppa and daily beta ppa that mirror dev and beta channels of Chrome)? Not that I’m THAT obsessive over pure FOSS, I just like it more without the Google stuff.

  • Anonymous

    Stable? On Ubuntu? I’ve tried EVERYTHING to get flash video to work in Chrome to no avail. The regular release, dev release, building flash from source, and on and on. It’s crazy because flash is freakin’ packed with Chrome and simply won’t work. It works on Opera and Epiphany and Firefox just fine…I really like Chrome, so it’s too bad :(

    • badhat

      download a tar.gz of flash and extract the libflashplayer.so plugin and put it in /usr/lib/chromium-browser (or whatever the directory for chrome is).

      you can also download the pre-release of the 64-bit flash player for linux if you google it

    • badhat

      download a tar.gz of flash and extract the libflashplayer.so plugin and put it in /usr/lib/chromium-browser (or whatever the directory for chrome is).

      you can also download the pre-release of the 64-bit flash player for linux if you google it

    • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

      No offense, but maybe it`s not working because you HAVE tried everything. Something got stuck in the middle so to speak..i never had to go big lengths to get it working with Chrome.

      • Anonymous

        I know exactly what you mean. However, the things I’ve tried are, generally speaking, pretty simple. Moving files around and so on. Nothing to lose track of really.

        I know what it likely is – rgba transparency. It’s buggy at best. If I blacklist Chrome and Chromium flash works a little (no picture with sound on youtube, etc) on Chrome and not at al on Chromium. But when I uninstall rgba and remove all configuration files for it (including the entries in ~/.profile) and reboot, flash is still a no go.

        So you’re probably correct in a sense: I likely have to much crap installed and something somewhere is conflicting.

        Still though, this shouldn’t be the case since Chrome is completely self-contained in its own directory, /opt/google/chrome. *sigh*

      • Anonymous

        I know exactly what you mean. However, the things I’ve tried are, generally speaking, pretty simple. Moving files around and so on. Nothing to lose track of really.

        I know what it likely is – rgba transparency. It’s buggy at best. If I blacklist Chrome and Chromium flash works a little (no picture with sound on youtube, etc) on Chrome and not at al on Chromium. But when I uninstall rgba and remove all configuration files for it (including the entries in ~/.profile) and reboot, flash is still a no go.

        So you’re probably correct in a sense: I likely have to much crap installed and something somewhere is conflicting.

        Still though, this shouldn’t be the case since Chrome is completely self-contained in its own directory, /opt/google/chrome. *sigh*

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    • http://cldx.blogspot.com/ Joern Konopka

      No offense, but maybe it`s not working because you HAVE tried everything. Something got stuck in the middle so to speak..i never had to go big lengths to get it working with Chrome.

  • Anonymous

    Stable? On Ubuntu? I’ve tried EVERYTHING to get flash video to work in Chrome to no avail. The regular release, dev release, building flash from source, and on and on. It’s crazy because flash is freakin’ packed with Chrome and simply won’t work. It works on Opera and Epiphany and Firefox just fine…I really like Chrome, so it’s too bad :(

  • http://neureau.com Carl

    odd. i installed a chrome update a few days ago and it still doesn’t work on some sites. more specifically, googles own sites! google analytics and android market publishing don’t work as expected. guess i can try this version and hope for the best

  • http://neureau.com Carl

    odd. i installed a chrome update a few days ago and it still doesn’t work on some sites. more specifically, googles own sites! google analytics and android market publishing don’t work as expected. guess i can try this version and hope for the best

  • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

    So what’s better Chrome or Chromium ?

    • Tom

      There’s only one way to find out…. FIGHT!

    • Tom

      There’s only one way to find out…. FIGHT!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Chromium is more bleeding edge than Chrome; stuff that is tried out in Chromium and works well filters down to Chrome Dev channel, passes through that to Chrome Beta and then to Chrome stable.

      • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

        Then it’s Chromium for me, cause I live on the bleeding edge…

        • Anonymous

          YouTube HTML5 works in Chrome, but not Chromium (Lucid repo)

          • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

            that’s interesting…

          • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

            that’s interesting…

          • Anonymous

            you can get html5 to work in youtube by opening synaptics and downloading the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package which includes the h.264, aac and mp3 codecs

          • Anonymous

            you can get html5 to work in youtube by opening synaptics and downloading the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package which includes the h.264, aac and mp3 codecs

        • Anonymous

          YouTube HTML5 works in Chrome, but not Chromium (Lucid repo)

      • http://olympusdigitalpen.blogspot.com/ dr. watson

        Then it’s Chromium for me, cause I live on the bleeding edge…

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Chromium is more bleeding edge than Chrome; stuff that is tried out in Chromium and works well filters down to Chrome Dev channel, passes through that to Chrome Beta and then to Chrome stable.

  • Anonymous

    I’m puzzled: what’s the difference between Chrome and Chromium?

    • Anonymous

      chromium is the developers build, all the new features are put in chromium first to test bugs out and then once its stable enough its called chrome unstable. if theres no bugs in the unstable build of chrome then its called chrome stable. also chromium doesn’t by default comes with the h.264/mp3 codecs for html5 though in ubuntu you can get the codecs by going into synaptics and downloading the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package which includes them.

      • Anonymous

        Ah, thanks a lot!
        In that case, I’ll stick with Chromium, then :)

      • Anonymous

        Ah, thanks a lot!
        In that case, I’ll stick with Chromium, then :)

      • Anonymous

        If it is so, what are google-chrome-beta and google-chrome-unstable doing?
        As of now, google-chrome-unstable from “http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main” has a version no: 6.0.408 while the Chromium from the lucid/universe has version no. 5.0.342.. Alright, chromium dev-channel has 6.0.423, but I don’t buy what you are saying.

    • Anonymous

      chromium is the developers build, all the new features are put in chromium first to test bugs out and then once its stable enough its called chrome unstable. if theres no bugs in the unstable build of chrome then its called chrome stable. also chromium doesn’t by default comes with the h.264/mp3 codecs for html5 though in ubuntu you can get the codecs by going into synaptics and downloading the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra package which includes them.

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha! Stable browsers!!! Who needs those boring things! Chromium is the way to go even when Google’s own pages don’t work, or when you can’t comment on Facebook!

    I get bored when things work! That’s why Lucid is so boring right now… I want Maverick!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/syanide1 Syanide

    So I just checked, the version in the Chromium “Daily Beta” PPA corresponds to Chrome Stable channel now (5.0.375.55). So that’s the Chromium you want to install if you want Chrome without the Google stuff. I hope they now add another PPA to correspond to each of the existing Chrome channels.

  • http://twitter.com/syanide1 Syanide

    So I just checked, the version in the Chromium “Daily Beta” PPA corresponds to Chrome Stable channel now (5.0.375.55). So that’s the Chromium you want to install if you want Chrome without the Google stuff. I hope they now add another PPA to correspond to each of the existing Chrome channels.

  • http://computergyan.wordpress.com/ Sayantan

    All said and done yet Gmail video chat does not work on Chrome stable!!!! Come on Google!

    • http://twitter.com/syanide1 Syanide

      That’s a Linux issue, afaik video chat is coded to work only on Windows.

  • http://twitter.com/syanide1 Syanide

    So here it is, for all Ubuntu users that want Chromium instead of Chrome:
    https://edge.launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/stable – equivalent of Chrome’s stable channel
    https://edge.launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/beta – equivalent of Chrome’s beta channel
    https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa – dev channel (not sure if it’s equivalent to Chrome, this one might be a bit ahead even, newest stuff here)
    Enjoy.

  • Anonymous

    General-purpose yes. All-purpose no. Sophisticated, not in the way they are implying, maybe nifty would be a better word.

  • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

    Chrome is already stable, Google plays safe by putting the word ‘Beta’ after it, but I guess in this version if we catch any crash, then we will be reward :P

  • http://ksergey.com/ Сергей win0err Колесников

    Where can I download the font that you use the image ‘Download Google Chrome’? Sorry for bad English:)

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    Google Chromium is good working…

    Download to this site: http://freeallsoftwares.com/2010/11/chromium-browser-download/

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