Pre alpha Google chrome available for Linux users

[d0b33]

Ubuntu users (or users of a Ubuntu-based distro) who have been waiting patiently for the chance to play with Google Chrome, there's now a dead simple way for you to do it. Thanks to the PPA (personal package archive) for Chromium daily builds team, getting the pre-alpha Chromium browser running on your system is about as painless as it can be at this stage.

You'll need to add repositories, of course. They are (substitute jaunty or hardy if needed):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

Once they've been added, running sudo apt-get install chromium-browser in a terminal window will take care of the rest. After the package has finished installing, just type chromium-browser [enter] to fire it up.

While it's still in its early stages, Chromium on Linux runs as it does on Windows - fast and smooth. Some important features aren't working yet, like the tab and bookmarks bars and options menu, but nearly everything else is. Incognito, history, download manager, and the new tab view are all functional, and every web page I tested rendered beautifully - and fast.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/03/17/google-chrome-on-linux-progressing-screenshots-inside/

Not to be confused with the crossover chromium browser which is the windows version of chrome running on wine and not natively on Linux.

Edit:
Title should be Ubuntu users.

 

[Mavix]

Hmm... I wonder if it has the new V8 javascript engine... I doubt it though.

 

[Swift-wp]

It should contain it, I don't think it would still be Chrome without that Javascript engine.

 

[Mavix]

I can confirm that it does have the V8 engine. I downloaded it and headed straight to the chromeexperiments.com site, and the Google Gravity demo ran like a dream.