Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta | Linux Today

Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 9, 2009

“Just like Google Chrome for Windows and Mac, we focused on
speed, stability and security, but we also wanted a
high-performance browser that integrated well with the Linux
ecosystem. This includes tight integration with native GTK themes,
updates that are managed by the standard system package manager,
and many other features that fit in natively with the operating
system where possible.

“Just as important, we’ve had quite a bit of help from the open
source community. More than 50 open source contributors have worked
on Chromium and they’ve been especially helpful on delivering our
Linux version of Google Chrome. For more details on the beta
release of Google Chrome for Linux, check out the Chromium
blog.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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