Re: Re: [opensuse] Google Chrome - Default Browser?

If you want Flash to work you also have to see this page:

http://en.opensuse.org/HOWTO_Install_Flash

For x86_64, you have to do:

Don't forget to edit your KDE menus to add the "--enable-plugins" bit.

Super! Made my life easier! Dave ------------- root@crankyadmin.net cranky@archlinux.us On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Sorry for the repost, but I am totally flummoxed.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject:        Re: [opensuse] Google Chrome - Default Browser? Date:   Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:45:16 -0800 From:   John Andersen To:     opensuse@opensuse.org

On Friday 18 December 2009 06:16:58 pm Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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On 12/18/2009 08:48 PM, Randall R Schulz pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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On Friday December 18 2009, John Andersen wrote:

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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.

If you want Flash to work you also have to see this page:

http://en.opensuse.org/HOWTO_Install_Flash

For x86_64, you have to do:

$ su - # cd /opt/google/chrome/ # mkdir plugins # cd plugins # ln -s /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so

(The last line differs from the web page on above.)

Don't forget to edit your KDE menus to add the "--enable-plugins" bit.

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