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- CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu Linux
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- CrossOver Chromium on Mac OS X
The folks over at CodeWeavers (of CrossOver fame) have managed to create a working port of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac using WINE. The port is available for free on the CodeWeavers site. Most of the Google Chrome functionality has been implemented, the biggest missing feature seems to be auto updates.
Jeremy White writes on the CodeWeavers blog:
[On] Thursday, September 4th, I called a company Fire Drill. I said I wanted to ship ported versions of Chromium for Mac and Linux, and I wanted to do it as fast as possible. By Friday, we had a first working build. But it had a major problem – you couldn’t do https sites, so logging in to Gmail, for example, was right out. Unfortunately, supporting that required that we finish the implementation of a nearly brand new DLL in Wine – the winhttp dll. Luckily for us, Hans Leiddeker had recently joined CodeWeavers, and in a bit of a hazing ritual, we asked him to scramble madly to implement what we needed. A little more than a week later, and he had done it. Of course, there were many other people who pitched in and tuned Wine to make Chromium just that much nicer.
NB. The CodeWeavers implementation is “free as in beer” but not “free as in speech”.
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- CodeWeavers blog
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