[BNM] Chrome: it's not a browser...

Antony Jones antonyj at gamesys.co.uk
Wed Sep 3 10:57:46 BST 2008


Hah. Got it running.

It wont render pages though. I get an OH SNAP page.

http://i34.tinypic.com/29fqbye.jpg

I left BNM up at the top there just for proof ;)

Ant

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 10:45 +0100, Antony Jones wrote:

> Heh! Cheers for those!
> 
> This page is very promising:
> 
> http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux
> 
> I give it a day or two before somebody has it up and running natively -
> I don't really want my browser to run through wine!
> 
> Ant
> 
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 10:35 +0100, Alex Farran wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Antony Jones <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >
> > > Hoping the linux version won't take too long...
> > >
> > > Yeah. damnit, I even installed a VM so that I could try it out, but it wont
> > > even install on my pre SP1 copy of XP.
> > 
> > I'm following this thread
> > 
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=908493
> > 
> > and this bug
> > 
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15106
> > 
> > Hopefully someone will get it working on wine soon.  I can install and
> > run it, but it doesn't render any pages.
> > 
> > There are some links in the forum thread that bypass the installer.
> > That might help you install it on your copy of XP.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alex Farran Web Development
> > http://www.alexfarran.com 01273 474065


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