Comments on: Chromium on Ubuntu ! [HOW TO]

By: tgdesign

tgdesign — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:00:55 +0000

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 5A9BF3BB4E5E17B5

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:30:54 +0000

Stefano, your instructions worked like a champ for Ubuntu 9.10. Chromium is running perfectly… Thank you…

By: stephan

stephan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:18:25 +0000

These sources also work now already:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

By: dougz

dougz — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:27:18 +0000

More credit where due. All of the pages that *never* rendered for me have been working since my last post. Yahoo!, latimes, etc.

Blast from the past — “Aw, Snap!” error today on page http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2009/07/kindle_gets_company_with_barne.html?wprss=fasterforward

That page is fine on Firefox 3.5. Chromium fails on page reload.

One hundred steps forward, one back. Not bad.

By: tomas

tomas — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:26:32 +0000

@ethnopunk
Do you have libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 in /usr/lib? If not, reinstall libgtk2.0-0 .

By: ethnopunk

ethnopunk — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:07:16 +0000

chromium-browser
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

By: dougz

dougz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:51:33 +0000

Credit where due — used Chromium heavily all day with ***zero*** rendering failures.

Only changes on my system today were the daily updates of Chromium and Firefox 3.5 Shiretoko (including Ubuntu Firefox branding and xulrunner)

By: tomas

tomas — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:08:15 +0000

Just for info: to use netscape plugins now enable-plugins command line switch is required:
chromium-browser –enable-plugins
The list of currently known plugin bugs can be found here -> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list?can=2&q=os:linux+label:plugins

By: dougz

dougz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:48:32 +0000

@Tomas
msttcorefonts 2.6 & ttf-mscorefonts-installer 2.6 are installed.

As I said, it was very intermittent. I browsed 10+ tuxmachines.org pages successfully today before I got a fail. At that point, the fail page was a consistent fail. Same pattern on another site I visit regularly. Also got a fail on a site I visited for the first time. At that point, I’m pretty much done with Chromium for the day. I’ll try again tomorrow.

Rendering used to be better; never got tuxmachines.org fails. It will get fixed. It’s alpha and bugs are to be expected.

By: tomas

tomas — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:24:11 +0000

@dougz
Hmmm… Latest daily build and still can’t see anything wrong with tuxmachines. Tried with adsweep and without – everything seems to be ok, google text ads work too when not using adsweep. Maybe you should try to install msttcorefonts?