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Google Chrome review on Linux

[ Thanks to omlx for this link. ]

“I would like to share with you my short experience
with Google Chrome on openSUSE 11.2. Although it is in a beta
stage, it is stable and fast. I like many things in it and I even
tried to emulate them in Firefox (thanks to Firefox add-on). In
this post, I will state my personal thoughts about Google Chrome
and I will refer to Firefox in any comparison. I am using version
4.0.249.43.

“As you know Google Chrome is a close-source (although Chromium
is an open source). This issue can cause inconveniences to
distributions and end user. First, from Google Chrome Terms of
Service “Subject to section 1.2, you may not (and you may not
permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of,
reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the
source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is
expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been
specifically told that you may do so by Google, in writing.”
which means that you cannot distribute Google chrome. Therefore, do
not expect to see Google Chrome as the default web browser in any
Free GNU/Linux distributions. However, Chromium will be there.”

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