How well is Chrome working in 1.1.9?

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:03 am

I just tried installing Chrome, using the Google stub installer (which
downloads the rest of the app). It gave an Error 0x80070057, which is
apparently a Windows Installer error - often caused by firewalls or
proxies, except this is at home on DSL, with only NAT between me and
the big wide Internet. This is on Kubuntu 8.10. Anyone having this
work better?

- d.

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:21 am

David Gerard wrote:I just tried installing Chrome, using the Google stub installer (which
downloads the rest of the app). It gave an Error 0x80070057, which is
apparently a Windows Installer error - often caused by firewalls or
proxies, except this is at home on DSL, with only NAT between me and
the big wide Internet. This is on Kubuntu 8.10. Anyone having this
work better?

- d.

Its better to use chromium snapshots to avoid the installer problem.
Go to http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snap ... um-rel-xp/ and grab the last chrome-win32.zip.

unzip it and run it like this :

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wine chrome.exe --no-sandbox --new-http

Usurp · Post by **Usurp** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:25 am

Usurp wrote: Its better to use chromium snapshots to avoid the installer problem.
Go to http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snap ... um-rel-xp/ and grab the last chrome-win32.zip.

unzip it and run it like this :
Code: Select all
wine chrome.exe --no-sandbox --new-http

By the way, if you are ok with compiling from source, current linux version of Chromium almost passes the Acid3 test. It means its able to display most web sites correctly, but it can't use plugins like flash at the moment iirc.

David Gerard · Post by **David Gerard** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:36 pm

2008/11/22 Usurp <[email protected]>:

David Gerard wrote:

I just tried installing Chrome, using the Google stub installer (which
downloads the rest of the app). It gave an Error 0x80070057, which is
apparently a Windows Installer error - often caused by firewalls or
proxies, except this is at home on DSL, with only NAT between me and
the big wide Internet. This is on Kubuntu 8.10. Anyone having this
work better?

Its better to use chromium snapshots to avoid the installer problem.
Go to http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snap ... um-rel-xp/ and grab the last chrome-win32.zip.
unzip it and run it like this :
Code:
wine chrome.exe --no-sandbox --new-http

I tried that, it starts, some of the text rendering is a bit wrong,
and I can't actually browse anywhere ... which is pretty much what it
was doing whenever I've tried it over the past several weeks.

- d.