Chromium on Ubuntu 8.10 / 9.04

Google Chrome?

No. Chromium. Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code. Google Chrome is built with open source code from Chromium.

Right off the bat, Chromium wanted to import all my settings (Bookmarks, Saved Passwords, ect) and i was able to dig through some of the new options, like setting the theme to match your GTK+ theme! Also, as you may already know, this thing is blazing fast. Pages load into individual processes as well, so if a pages freezes up and crashes on you, just that tab goes away - not your entire browser!

In this article, i will walk you through installing the open source Chromium web browser on Ubuntu Desktop Linux 8.10 and 9.04.

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1) Add the Chromium PPA to your repository

# sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

For Ubuntu 8.10 users, add:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

For Ubuntu 9.04 users, add:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

2) GPG Key

# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0C713DA6

3) Update and Install

# sudo apt-get update

# sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

4) Launch Chromium

Note: Make sure Firefox is closed before this step if you plan on importing all your settings into Chromium

Browse to: Applications -> Internet -> Chromium Web Browser

Enjoy!