So new series of Spooks tonight (excellent viewing) and as I was just catching up on my feeds I noticed a thread on Google Chromium on Linux and it's speed.
Being a bit of a browser junkie I thought "I have never run it on Linux, why? It's my default windows browser". So a quick...
AurGet chromium-browser-bin
(AurGet being an excellent AUR grabbing script which I think I found on Arch Wiki)
... And I was watching a really smart installer whizzing along.
Five minutes later and I was sitting playing with Chromium. This is the open source version that Google released based on the initial Chrome browser.
My god it is fast!! As usual I set it up with Keyboardr.com and it flies. It is so fast I keep retrying things because I can't believe what I am seeing. The two things which I find I don't like is the GTK++ toolkit. I know, I know..... there is nothing wrong with it, it is just personal taste (and being a KDE only kinda guy!). The second is that I am at present unable to disable path searching. Whenever I type an address it wants to use the default search engine. I have only been playing for a 30 mins or so.
No comments:
Post a Comment