The Linux version of Chrome has been coming along fairly quickly, the latest development build of Chrome (Chromium) for Linux now works with Flash and has extension support. It is also possible to configure the options (although there are still some TODO stubs so setting a proxy isn’t possible, EDIT: Try the –proxy-server argument). Tested under Ubuntu 9.04 64bit.
Update (05 Mar 2010): Google now have a proper version of Chrome with flash, themes, greasemonkey and extensions. Including .deb packages for Ubuntu (And packages for Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE). Simply grab them from the the Chrome site, no other setup needed. They will also install repositories to keep things up to date. They are ‘beta’ but there more likely to be stable than grabbing the bleeding edge ones from the chromium-team repo (there is an ‘unstable’ packages too). I was running into issues with Chromium freezing up (mainly Flash related) which are not an issue with the official Google Chrome build.
There is also a fairly good Adblock extension. It includes the same filterlists as the Firefox one. If you need to block something extra hit ctrl+shit+k and you get a handy wizard where you can just click on whatever you want to nuke.
I also recommend giving the HTML5 version of YouTube a try. It seems faster than the flash one and things like seeking are quick. Full screen has a few issues. In order to activate it you need to first popout the video using the icon up the top right of the video, although it’s much faster to popout and Flash since it doesn’t need to rebuffer the video like Flash often does. I did have some sluggishness of the controls in full screen but the video playback works fine. Also for some reason it goes back to the Flash player when I am logged into YouTube with a user account, but works fine without a login.
/update
Old instructions:
To install under Ubuntu:
sudo su
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main #chromium-browser" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
To enable Flash support:
cd /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
sudo ln -s ../../flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
For extensions:
Start browser with the following:
chromium-browser --enable-plugins --enable-greasemonkey --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions
Clink on a crx link (such as adsweep) and browse to chrome://extensions/ to check installation.
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If you are using 64bit get the 32bit libflashplugin.so for Chromium
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I never succeed using the extensions.. the browser doesn’t even ask me if i want to install or not, it just install, and nothing happenes…
any idea why? it works for you?
*using ubuntu 9.04 32bit.
FWIW, you don’t need –enable-greasemonkey.
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hi
I’m on ubuntu hardy. For the flash plugin to work, I had to modify the last instruction this way:
ln -sf ../../flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so . (note in the directory name: “-nonfree” instead of “installer”)
cheers
TheTilde
Would have been nicer if you said “Chromium” rather than Linux Chrome. Save people some time.
The latest chromium seems to require “–enable-plugins” as an option for flash to work.
You can set the proxy server on the command-line with –proxy-server
You can also set the proxy server by setting the system proxy settings in Ubuntu
This is Chromium, and not Chrome, as a someone already stated.
Chromium = upstream Open Source project
Chrome = the google spin on the same project
They are not the same. Flash does not work yet with ‘google-chrome-unstable’
I
after the last update, flash stopped working 😦
I follow this instructions, but it doesn’t work
Chromium still doesn’t load flash videos
Someone else had the same problem?
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The latest versions of Chromium require this new way to start with Flash support. Everything else in the walkthrough is still correct, except start Chromium with this line instead:
chromium-browser –enable-greasemonkey –enable-user-scripts –enable-extensions –enable-plugins
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Google Chrome for linux DOES support setting a proxy.
I use Google Chrome 3.0.194.3
This works for me:
google-chrome –proxy-server=10.0.0.60:8080
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Was that with 32 bit system or 64 bit? I can’t seem to get it running under amd64 (the flash player does not work, extensions do work indeed)
seems that if you set your proxy in the gnome-settings fashion, then you are still required to use the –proxy-server parameter in order for it to honour the settings in gconf :
chromium –proxy-server
google-chrome –proxy-server
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i followed the instructions, but it doesn’t work at all…
it says “E: malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/chromium.list (dist), E:The list of sources could not be read”
How do I get rid of this?
I’m using linux ubuntu 9.04
Extensions don’t seem to work: I click on a crx, refresh chrome://extensions/, Chrome crashes, I reopen Chrome and chrome://extensions/ and it tells me that there are NO extensions installed. It did however make folders in /home/vincent/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/.
Wtf? Automatically submitted my comment…
Anyway, once, it didn’t crash and instead told me there was some sort of version mismatch (extension was FlashBlock).
Pretty cool post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed browsing your posts.
Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post
again soon!
Does anyone have success on enabling flash on 64-bit Ubuntu? I’m using 32-bit flash plugin from Adobe, it shows as enabled on “about:plugins”, but if you go to Youtube, it reserves space for the video but nothing happens. Any ideas?
nice..
Hi there,
may I translate this to german and post it on my block?
Greets,
digitalSeb
oups… blog noch block. sorry
hmm ok.. I published it without waiting for your answer, Im a very impatiently person, sorry … if you want I delete it
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@JD: Thanks, added to flags.
@nick: Thanks 🙂
@anon: If you want to get technical sure, but there arn’t any Linux Chrome releases so it should be fairly obvious. In anycase I added a Chromium to the post.
@ilzar: Check what’s in the file.
@Bartosz Radaczyński, @Anderson Supriano: It’s 64bit Ubuntu but it is probabbly using the32bit flash (this is the default Ubuntu 64bit way). Havn’t tried with 64bit flash, don’t really see much point (although I have had some issues with 32bit flash stopping under Ubuntu).
@Brad: Good to know, added note.
@digitalseb: Go for it.
With the latest alpha DEB, the extensions I mentioned earlier now work. Awesome.
thanks! for me, i’m using the adobe-flashplayer package in ubuntu for my flash support, so the directory to make the link to isn’t
sudo ln -s ../../flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
but instead
sudo ln -s ../../adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so
you could make note of this, since i think we’re going to see a lot of people starting to use the adobe-flashplayer package instead of the flashplugin-installer package, since it doesn’t have to go through the extra download (i think adobe recently lets ubuntu distribute, hence the new adobe-flashplugin package…)
man chromium is fast!!!
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very good information. thanks.
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i want to try google chrome
how do i reset chrome … plz suggest
As in, make it completely clean, including history, cache, themes and extensions?
Delete the ~/.config/chromium directory. (~ means your home dir btw, and dirs starting with a period are hidden by default so be sure to press ctrl+H to show hidden files in your file manager.)
Great, kinda great subject. I’m goin to write about it also!
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New here, from Toronto, Canada
Just a quick hello from as I’m new to the board. I’ve seen some interesting comments so far.
To be honest I’m new to forums and computers in general 🙂
Mike
Very cool, i have ubuntu on my laptop so i’ll have to give it a try. Thanks for the info!
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good list. thanks.
For those who is having trouble with 64bit and Google Chrome on linux, be sure to check this out!
http://www.high-on-it.co.za/2011/01/flash-player-for-google-chrome-on.html
wow, that took a long while…
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