Dan Kegel and Evan Martin: Google Chrome for Linux is finally ready for beta
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-unstable sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
Looks like a clean substitution: icon in my gnome panel still works, history is preserved, etc
Dan Kegel and Evan Martin: Google Chrome for Linux is finally ready for beta
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-unstable sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
Looks like a clean substitution: icon in my gnome panel still works, history is preserved, etc. I’ve not noted any significant issues with the “unstable” version, but perhaps this beta will be updated slightly less frequently the unstable version.
Biggest miss for me is PDF viewing. Like others, about:plugins
shows Adobe Acrobat, but actually visiting a PDF gives me a black window.
Admittedly petty issues: with Firefox: I’m accustomed to typing in part of an address in the Navigation Toolbar, hitting tab and then enter. With Chrome it is down then enter. Finally, entering a /
starts a search on the page with Firefox, with Chrome it does nothing.
Sam — not really an answer to what sounds like a Chrome Linux bug, and I admittedly haven’t tried it out yet, but I noticed the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google) on the Chrome Extensions site earlier today:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhgmkedmbmedengocbn
From the description:
Automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.
Seems to be well liked by the reviewers.
Re the beta, I’m staying on the dev channel myself. It’s stable enough for me for daily use (and has been for months), and I like the subtle incremental improvement over time.
-DeWitt
Wait. Is that Ubuntu? Which repository are you getting google-chrome-beta
from?
Using Chrome on Windows, I type part of the address in the Navigation Toolbar, then if the complete address I need is the first one found by Chrome I just need to press Enter; no Tab, not even Down required. Has this behaviour on Linux changed? Weird.
DeWitt: I have a PDF which is generated locally on a machine that I would like to view inside the browser. As it is for a book I am writing, I really don’t want to upload the whole thing each and every time I fix a typo.
Giulio: if you installed the alpha, the following is added to your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/:
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable main
I have a local homepage. If I type “home” in the address bar, I see it as the first hit. If I hit enter, I go to this page. Frustrating.
Indeed I didn’t get the alpha; thanks for the tip.
Also, I stand corrected: my comment above should read "I type the initial part of an address." Otherwise, Chrome does react as you describe.