Chromium: Google’s Browser on Linux and Mac!

Published on September 28, 2008 in Apps by Rami Taibah



I am sure a lot of Linux and Mac users were a bit disappointed on September the 2nd, they were shut out in favor of their more popular counterparts; Windows users. Google’s browser, Chrome, took the Internet by storm. Everybody was talking about it, Digg got swamped with Chrome submissions, Tech blogs were buzzing about it, theories were thrown left and right. Everybody was in for the action, except for Linux and Mac users! :(

However Jeremy White, the CEO of Codeweavers, decided to take matters into his own hands. So on September 4th he summoned his army to get Chromium (which is the open source project behind Chrome) ported to Linux and Mac ASAP. Long story short, they achieved that in only 11 days! Boy Wine has matured! :)

Anyways enough talk, if you want a piece of the action you just simply need to download Chromium from Codeweaver’s servers:

Google Chrome for Apple Mac OS X:
1. CrossOver Chromium for Apple Mac OS X

Google Chrome for Linux:
1. CrossOver Chromium for Ubuntu and Debian (32 bit)
2. CrossOver Chromium for Ubuntu and Debian (64 bit)
3. CrossOver Chromium for Red Hat, Mandriva, and Suse
4. CrossOver Chromium for all other Linux distros.

Warning: Chromium should not be used as a main browser, it is not stable enough. From Codeweaver’s Faqs:

Q. Should I run CrossOver Chromium as my main browser?

A. Absolutely not! This is just a proof of concept, for fun, and to showcase what Wine can do. Chromium itself is just beginning. As the Chromium project progresses, they will be providing more compelling support for Mac OS and Linux, particularly with process security and memory management. Those future versions from Chromium will be better suited for daily use than this version.

About Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.

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  • unlimited
    Chromium's good but why now download the mac version directly : http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac

    Cheers!
  • tim
    Any support for asian fonts?
  • Not working for me, I don't understand :-((((((
  • Tried it...I'm sticking with SeaMonkey.
  • Tried it...I'm sticking with SeaMonkey.
  • web
    Lame, just the windows version wrapped up in wine..
  • web
    Lame, just the windows version wrapped up in wine..
  • Caron
    Trouble running it on Linux, try from a terminal:

    /opt/cxchromium/bin/wine --cx-app chrome

    or

    ~/cxchromium/bin/wine --cx-app chrome

    You may need to add:

    --no-sandbox --in-process-plugins

    Trouble on a Mac? If it's a PowerPC (G3, G4, G5) CrossOver Chromium will not run. If it's an Intel Mac and on 10.5.5, it may have some issue.

    Chromium (Chrome) runs on Wine, but has issues with https. I believe the fix for this has been submitted to Wine already. No reason to keep it secret.
  • Caron
    Trouble running it on Linux, try from a terminal:

    /opt/cxchromium/bin/wine --cx-app chrome

    or

    ~/cxchromium/bin/wine --cx-app chrome

    You may need to add:

    --no-sandbox --in-process-plugins

    Trouble on a Mac? If it's a PowerPC (G3, G4, G5) CrossOver Chromium will not run. If it's an Intel Mac and on 10.5.5, it may have some issue.

    Chromium (Chrome) runs on Wine, but has issues with https. I believe the fix for this has been submitted to Wine already. No reason to keep it secret.
  • This is a neat tip. Would you consider posting any more tips you write to http://ubuntukungfu.org? This is a Digg-like site where people can submit and vote for Ubuntu tips, tricks etc. Cheers!
  • This is a neat tip. Would you consider posting any more tips you write to http://ubuntukungfu.org? This is a Digg-like site where people can submit and vote for Ubuntu tips, tricks etc. Cheers!
  • jack
    I'm so not impressed by Google's Chrome and even less impressed that it'll run on Wine. Wine has come a long way no doubt and this shouldn't be unexpected. While it may not have worked initially with Wine it was bound to work eventually. Chrome isn't even out of beta so who cares? Had Wine supported it out of the box it would have been more interesting. I did try Chrome and I'm not touching it.
  • jack
    I'm so not impressed by Google's Chrome and even less impressed that it'll run on Wine. Wine has come a long way no doubt and this shouldn't be unexpected. While it may not have worked initially with Wine it was bound to work eventually. Chrome isn't even out of beta so who cares? Had Wine supported it out of the box it would have been more interesting. I did try Chrome and I'm not touching it.
  • Wow, great PR for the Wine/CrossOver projects and something to play with for us Linux/Osx types!

    But, for me, it's not working yet:
    First hist of trouble is no new menu item to run it. Assuming:
    /opt/cxchromium/support/chromium/drive_c/chromium/chrome.exe &
    is right, it still fails with two warnings:

    Google Chrome does not support Windows 2000. Some features may not work.

    Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?

    Agreeing to Restart just repeats the same warnings.
    I'm running it on 32bit Ubuntu hardy on new hardware with 4gig Ram. I've had other apps working under Wine for awhile, so could that be conflicting with CrossOver?
  • Wow, great PR for the Wine/CrossOver projects and something to play with for us Linux/Osx types!

    But, for me, it's not working yet:
    First hist of trouble is no new menu item to run it. Assuming:
    /opt/cxchromium/support/chromium/drive_c/chromium/chrome.exe &
    is right, it still fails with two warnings:

    Google Chrome does not support Windows 2000. Some features may not work.

    Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?

    Agreeing to Restart just repeats the same warnings.
    I'm running it on 32bit Ubuntu hardy on new hardware with 4gig Ram. I've had other apps working under Wine for awhile, so could that be conflicting with CrossOver?
  • Birdy...
    Well...This doesn't work on my MAC. I dowloaded it twice and I keep getting the same message that says "Application is damaged or incomplete."

    Can you tell me what operating systems is this suppose to run on?

    Thanks,

    Birdy...
  • Birdy...
    Well...This doesn't work on my MAC. I dowloaded it twice and I keep getting the same message that says "Application is damaged or incomplete."

    Can you tell me what operating systems is this suppose to run on?

    Thanks,

    Birdy...
  • yttrx
    Wrapping "wine chromium.exe" in a one line script is not "porting". What the fuck is the matter with you?
  • yttrx
    Wrapping "wine chromium.exe" in a one line script is not "porting". What the fuck is the matter with you?
  • Cesar Negrete
    That's cheating, Chrome almost runs in Wine 1.1.5, it took eleven days for them to create the remaining code to make it run. Let's see how much time they will wait before they commit this code to Wine :)
  • Cesar Negrete
    That's cheating, Chrome almost runs in Wine 1.1.5, it took eleven days for them to create the remaining code to make it run. Let's see how much time they will wait before they commit this code to Wine :)
  • Jim Watson
    LOL thats cool. Kinda like Chrome on crack! LOL

    Jiff

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  • This is an alternative solution, no doubt; I would still prefer to have a pre-compiled package of Chrome in Linux distribution or a Macintosh version binary.

    I believe Wine can be used as opposed to Crossover.
  • This is an alternative solution, no doubt; I would still prefer to have a pre-compiled package of Chrome in Linux distribution or a Macintosh version binary.

    I believe Wine can be used as opposed to Crossover.
  • Can this run on Wine as opposed to CrossOver?
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