I’m a new guy to Linux and I have LinuxMint KDE running on my PC as a dual-boot to Vista (still need it for music!). One of the greatest things to ever hit Vista was Google Chrome and for the past year that I’ve used it on Vista, it’s been my primary browser; it’s faster and uses less resources than FireFox or IE does in Windows.
So when I loaded up Linux and saw that there was a Chrome version in testing for this operating system, I jumped on it and downloaded the ‘unstable’ 4.0.249.30 version. Right away, I could tell there were issues, as it was far slower than on the Vista OS and seemed to freeze when javascript ran or when I opened a new tab as a page was loading. Sadly, I stopped using Chrome on Linux and stuck with Opera.
On December 8, Google announced the Beta version for Linux was released and I leaped with joy! I thought “I bet they solved all the issues with the freezing and the bugginess”, and why wouldn’t I believe that? Their email notification even stated:
Google Chrome is go for beta on Linux! Thanks to the many Chromium and WebKit developers who helped make Google Chrome a lean, mean browsing machine. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Linux team:
60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors
Thanks for waiting and we hope that you enjoy using Google Chrome!
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