Chromium has changed by leaps and bounds and now a strong contender for your daily browsing needs

Alas, if only chromium would do something, anything, other than to just crash and burn immediately with an error when I launch it, without even drawing a rectangle on the screen.

I haven't had the time or inclination to check it out further, but if they did come out with a release that actually runs I would certainly be willing to evaluate it further.

Same thing here. The current Chromium is like the GNU Hurd. Supposed to finally run stably "in the next release". Sure it is /sarcasm.

I have been using this PPA [url=https://launchpad.net/~fta/ archive/ppa]https://launchpad.net/~fta/ archive/ppa[/url] instead of the chromium-daily PPA which I presumed to be of variable stability. Chromium from this PPA has worked fine for me on hardy and jaunty. As a bonus you also get firefox-3.5/3.6 and thunderbird-3.0 for all of hardy/intrepid/jaunty.

IMO chromium looks and feels nice (I use the brushed-metal theme) but after a few days of usage found no particular reason to continue using it specially since it lacks the functionality of addons I have gotten used to in ffox. The tipping point was the observation that it ends up using more CPU and memory that ffox when more than a few tabs are open (probably in absence of adblock etc). Btw, for getting flash to work on 64-bit installations I had to get flash v9 (32-bit) from adobe archive and place in one of the plugins dir (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins worked for me) in addition to starting chromium with --enable-plugins.

@krisum -

I tried google-chrome from the above repo on my 32-bit intrepid box - the results are much the same:

jjs@matisyahu:~$ google-chrome [7740:7748:620935623841:FATAL:/b/slave/chrome-official-linux/build/src/chrome/browser/renderer_host/async_resource_handler.cc(145)] Check failed: read_buffer_->data(). Trace/breakpoint trap [7757:7758:620935630346:ERROR:/b/slave/chrome-official-linux/build/src/ipc/ipc_channel_posix.cc(420)] pipe error (9): Connection reset by peer

I see no google-chrome in the above repo. All I see is "chromium-browser" package which is what I installed and works for me. Probably you have an installation of chrome dev from google instead of the open source chromium.

@krisum - Ah, thanks for the sanity check. That will teach me to do package management in the middle of the night. yes, the unstable google-chrome was still lurking around. I must have expected the other repo would have named it the same, not a good assumption. I've explicitly removed the unstable version and I'm all set to put the more stable chromium browser through it's paces.

Edit: It makes no difference -

The chromium-browser from the repo you suggested crashes immediately on startup :/

jjs@matisyahu:~$ chromium-browser [18948:18951:691308927601:FATAL:/build/buildd/chromium-browser-3.0.198.0~svn20090806r22605/build-tree/src/chrome/browser/renderer_host/async_resource_handler.cc(145)] Check failed: read_buffer_->data(). Trace/breakpoint trap