[olug] Google Chrome on Linux

[Todd Wittenmeier]

do any of you remember how buggy the first Mozilla was when it came
out? It would barely even open! I'm hoping these things get resolved
quick you know? I'd love to have sleek little browser again.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that the popup blocker still loads the popup and renders the content.  If the popup contained flash, you'd hear the flash video, and it would stop if you closed the popup blocked notification box.
>
> Also, seems rather CPU intensive at times.  Even without flash.
>
> -Dave
> ------Original Message------
> From: Todd Wittenmeier
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> To: Omaha Linux User Group
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> Subject: Re: [olug] Google Chrome on Linux
> Sent: Dec 18, 2009 12:23 PM
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> I've been using it, and sometimes it's great, sometimes it's been a
> little slow to pull up pages believe it or not if they have flash on
> em just like Eric said.
>
> I can't wait for it to get done tho.. I love my firefox, but everyone
> is right it's a little bloated.. but maybe thats what you get when try
> to be as cross platform as that app is right?
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Eric P <eric.maillist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Charles Bird wrote:
>>> Hey yall,  I havent been around much to observe discussions much latley, my
>>> email changed as a result of terminating my own employment, so I dont know
>>> if you guys and gals have been talking about Chrome on Linux latley or not.
>>>
>>> It Rocks, except I cant close it. lol, even killing in term via pid doesnt
>>> work all the time, but as far as resource usage, its really nice, and fast.
>>> I like this beta they got going on so far.
>>
>> I've been using Chromium for 4-5 months which I believe is even a newer build than the Chrome beta.   And updates come
>> through regularly.
>>
>> Flash is a little clunkier than in Firefox (I have a 1.5 Ghz machine), but everything else is much, much zippier.  I use
>> it for 90% of my regular browsing now.
>> E
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-Todd