On 12/18/2009 08:48 PM, Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Friday December 18 2009, John Andersen wrote:
Should Opensuse consider making Google Chrome the default browser for KDE?
Its faster than Firefox, and seems at least as capable as Kong.
Drawbacks? Would Google allow it? Would it fit?
Opinions? Flames?
I'm using it, but for exactly one thing: Google Wave.
As far as I can tell, the Linux port does not yet support plug-ins the way the Windows port does. (I've heard contradicting claims, so maybe I just don't know how to find or install plug-ins for Chrome).
Anyway, I don't think Chrome is ready to be a replacement for Konqueror, especially given Konqueror's file manager capabilities, which have no counterpart in any browser I'm aware of. Then again, I couldn't possibly use Konqueror as my Web browser, I use it only for those few occasions when I want to use some of its unique abilities such as its info file viewer.
I would like Chrome to be available via one of the stock openSUSE repositories (if it's not already... is it? If so, for which openSUSE versions?)
I don't think Google could object (not in any way that actually impedes openSUSE's ability to include it), since it is an open-source project.
Randall Schulz
Add this to file /etc/zypp/repos.d/Google_Chrome.repo [Google_Chrome] name=Google_Chrome enabled=1 autorefresh=0 baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386 type=rpm-md keeppackages=0 Refresh zypp and you will be able to add chrome like any other package. You will have to adjust for your kernel flavor. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org