News Chrome hits beta for Linux, Mac

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    CardJoe, 9 Dec 2009
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  2. scrimple3D

    scrimple3D What's a Dremel?

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    Yes.
     
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  3. samkiller42

    samkiller42 For i AM Cheesecake!!

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    Had a play with Chrome on OSX, and i made the mistake of importing bookmarks from Safari and now i can't get rid of a couple, on matter what i try, a tad annoying, thus, i made sure i didn't make the same mistake with Firefox. One thing i have noticed in my quest to rid of my Bookmarks, is there is no Bookmarks manager like there is in the Windows version, but i guess i will have to wait for Google to develop it a bit more.

    Sam
     
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  4. Farting Bob

    Farting Bob What's a Dremel?

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    ill get this for my netbook with ubuntu on, simply for the slightly larger viewing area it offers over FF for what i use it for.
     
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    [- pio -] Minimodder

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    The extensions thing on Mac sucks. I've been using the official developers preview of Chrome (not Chromium) on my MacBook for a few months now, and they only took out(!) the extensions-functionality a couple of builds ago :( As far as I could see, it worked perfectly! (Even though there was no way to access the extension manager without going to chrome://extensions, which you can still do, btw)

    Meh.. And I hope they bring back fullscreen soon as well.
     
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  6. riggs

    riggs ^_^

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    How substantial is the extension library for Chrome? I mean, I'm on a Mac anyway so it doesn't really matter at the moment, but my main FF extensions (that I can't live without) are;
    Xmarks - bookmark sync/backup
    Downthemall - download manager
    linkification - turns non-href urls into clickable links

    I'd be tempted to convert if anything like the above exists. Well, eventually convert...if/when extension support becomes available.
     
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  7. docodine

    docodine killed a guy once

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    Firefox works better than any other browser in fullscreen, try that out.
     
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  8. Techno-Dann

    Techno-Dann Disgruntled kumquat

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    Chrome + linux = cheesecake. I'd been running Iron (another Chromium port) for a while, but the official Chrome build is a lot smoother.
     
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  9. scawp

    scawp What's a Dremel?

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    I'll be sticking with Opera
     
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  10. Ziegfried

    Ziegfried What's a Dremel?

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    Does anyone knows how to make Flash and Java works on the linux version? I'm using OpenSuse 11.1, both plugins are working on Firefox but not in Chrome. And I can't find the plugins directory...
     
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