This is the dev page for Chrome. The unstable but wonderful linux version can be obtained here. Just download, double-click the awesomely convenient .deb package you’ve obtained and give it permission via your password and you are ready. Go to Application_> Internet and click the snazzy Chrome icon and you are in business.
On first run you get a few questions/options. Do I want to send usage stats to Google? Well, this is a dev version and we want to see a full on alpha sometime soon so I hope you said yes. Otherwise you’re kinda being a leech and those aren’t looked upon favorably in the open source multi verse. This is the dev page for Chrome. The unstable but wonderful linux version can be obtained here. Just download, double-click the awesomely convenient .deb package you’ve obtained and give it permission via your password and you are ready. Go to Application_> Internet and click th
Next you have the option to make Chrome your default browser. I chose yes. I don’t care what you choose. If you’re end-user-y, the difference is that when you open any file or application that needs to be viewed or in any way utilize a browser,it opens your default. So if you want only the Chrome browser to be used then click yes or uninstall every other browser on your system.
Finally, do you want to import faves, cookies, passwords, etc from another browser? This is up to you. I didn’t because I am using a fresh install and have nothing to import.
Your browser should have now opened and to your amazement it has Google set as your search engine (makes sense) and a simple “Get Started with Chrome” tab. I immediately have two stops to make on a new browser; flash and Java. Easy enough since the Get started tab has a video I can click that and be prompted to get adobe saving me from using the keyboard. So I click the video, am taken to a page that offers more videos and click the topmost because I am a lazy animal. No fancy drop down, no flashing warning. Simple linked text stating “Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe’s Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.” So I click this lined text. I choose the .deb package (because I waited long enough for them and I am going to use them despite the terminal snobs tirades).
See the download box/tab/button that appears art the bottom of your browser? Click that and you get a tab for your downloads page. Nice! So I click the .deb and.. sadness. Adobe assumes I have 32 bit and has supplied the i386 version of flash 10 when i in fact require 64-bit. So I grab it here (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html) even though I am back to the old-school tar.gz.
My first step is.. You know what? Let’s cheat. Forget all the other stuff regarding flash and do this.. Open Firefox (or whatever browser you were subjected to prior to this life-changing article) and go to Google search page. Click Videos at the top of the page. Follow the prompt to install flash. Shut down all browsers and restart Chrome. Go back to Google videos and your flash plug-in should work. That’s less complication than the erudite method but you’re flashing now and you don’t have a headache (I hope).
So how about a review after a week or so of use? I’ll get right on that. Until then I trust you to be able to come to your own conclusion as to how it serves your needs. You are intelligent after all.
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