Shekhar Govindarajan's Blog » SuSe http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com My Notepad on the Web Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Run Google Chrome on Linux – The easy way http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/google/run-google-chrome-on-linux-the-easy-way/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid=&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=run-google-chrome-on-linux-the-easy-way http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/google/run-google-chrome-on-linux-the-easy-way/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:17:14 +0000 Shekhar http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com/?p=342 As per my earlier blog post, Chrome (Google’s home grown web browser) is not available for Linux. Its release status for Linux, as stated at Google Chrome’s download site is – “Google Chrome for Linux is in development and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible.” But seems Linux had not to wait!.

With Wine ( a Windows emulator for Linux), one can run Chrome on Linux. Several HOWTOs started floating around which required upgrading or downloading/installing specific version of Wine. While I was about to get carried away by one of these, CrossOver Chromium made its debut yesterday.

The download page offers Crossover Chromium for various flavors of Linux which includes Ubuntu, SuSe, RedHat and Mandriva.

I’m running Fedora 9 on my laptop. Since Fedora is based on RedHat (actually vice versa), I opted to download the CrossOver Chromuim for RedHat from here. It was an RPM (Linux installer) which installed like a charm.

On Fedora’s Gnome desktop, a menu item (Application>CrossOver Chromium>Chromium) got created. Clicking on it launched Google Chrome! Though it took some time (about 10 seconds) to launch.

Chrome running on Linux desktop (Fedora 9)

Chrome running on Linux desktop (Fedora 9)

Note:

  • With desktop effects enabled, I was not able to maximize the Chrome window. Disabling the desktop effects (System>Preferences>Look and Feel>Desktop Effects) worked.
  • It did not render my blog well. The top portion was screwed up. Chrome on Windows renders my blog well. Even while browsing Yahoo.com, it did not show the advertisement on the top and the Yahoo logo was cut off form the top. Bottom line: some very peculiar issue in rendering.
  • Create application shortcut (Control the current page (icon)>Create application shortcuts) did not work – i.e. it did not create a shortcut on the GNOME desktop.

Crossover clearly states that Crossover Chromium is a proof of concept. Hence use it for a light weighted test drive of Chrome on Linux.

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