I neglected to include this info in last nights post.

To enable plugin-ins, simply place them in: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins and also modify your launcher for chromium to include the --enable-plugins options.

Flash is working perfectly for me.

I have been Firefox fan for many years, in fact, I was a Mozilla and Netscape fan before that. I’ve tried many different browsers, but nothing, to me ever came close to what Firefox could offer. Although many people like Firefox for all of the available add-on’s, I’m more of a simple user…there have been a few small addon’s I’d adopted over the years, but nothing I couldn’t live without, and honestly I’d forget about them most of the time. I simply liked Firefox because it was an excellent browser that was available on all of the platforms I used and it just worked – plain and simple.

When Google first announced Chrome for Windows, I was pretty skeptical. In fact, I hated the initial build that I installed. However, I warmed up to it quickly and it has become my browser of choice on my Windows boxes, while continuing to use Firefox on my Linux boxes.

I recently found out about the PPA repositories for Ubuntu and since then I’ve been doing as much browsing as possible on my Ubuntu laptop with Chromium (the open source browser behind “Chrome”). These are all daily builds, and can be unstable, and may change from day to day. As of right now, there are still some things that simply do not work as expected (such as plugins and add-ons) but I kinda like browsing the web w/o Flash every once in a while

If you would like to experience the awesomeness of this light-weight Webkit browser follow the instructions below.

Bear in mind that there are no x86_64 builds as of yet, so if you are running 64-bit Ubuntu as I am, you must have the ia32-libs installed.

First you’ll need to add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu [version] main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu [version] main


Where [version] equals the version of Ubuntu you are on in it’s “codename” format, so you can choose between:

• Hardy (8.04)
• Intrepid (8.10)
• Jaunty (9.04)
• Karmic (9.10)

After adding the repositories to your sources.list you’ll want to add GPG key for the repo to your apt keyring by executing the following command in a Terminal window:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 4E5E17B5

Finally simply run sudo apt-get update to update your sources. Bear in mind for Chromium to work, you must have the package msttcorefonts installed or no text will render, so before installing Chromium, install the MS Core fonts by executing sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts once they are downloaded and installed, you can install Chromium with sudo apt-get install chromium-browser.

Now you can Chromium in all it’s glory. Be sure to see this page for more information. Also, be sure to check out the Chromium Project page in Launchpad as well as the official web-site of the Chromium project.

Thanks to all of the hard work that have made this browser, and this repository possible.

See Part II for info on plug-ins.