[Wine] Google Chrome - any luck, anyone?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 04:35:42 CDT 2008


2008/9/3 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> There's a post on the Ubuntu Forums where someone got somewhere
> downloading the zip file from the Chromium page:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=908493&page=3
> At least it starts!
> (So Wine's immediate problem with both the small installer and the
> full installer is getting the installer to work at all ...)


Oh, and see this:

http://digg.com/tech_news/BREAKING_Google_Chrome_Just_Launched?t=18383763#c18387480

Apparently you can build something for Linux or MacOS X but not browse
with it. Anticipated working Linux/Mac version: months.

But the Windows binary in Wine can be beaten into at least starting and failing!

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15106
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15107

Browser share after Chrome's only been out a few hours: 3%. o_0

http://getclicky.com/chrome


- d.



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