Just when I was beginning to believe that Chromium’s source was somehow (purposely?) crippled to prevent its compilation on Linux, the Chromium dev blog has announced developer only binaries for Debian/Ubuntu compatible x86 and x64 systems. The only problem? Read this quote from the post:
In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for
Mac OS X[wtf is Mac?] and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.
So yeah… don’t download it.
Anyway, here’s some decidedly unscientific benchmarks for performance comparison. I ran Peacekeeper on Firefox 3.0.10 x86_64 on my Mint 6 install (what’s the holdup with 7 guys?), Firefox 3.0.10 on Vista x64, and IE8 64bit on Vista 64.
Looks pretty good to me, though I quickly uninstalled it afterward. I just don’t get why ALL the privacy features were disabled on the Linux build…
