Hi.
Yesterday evening i was just browsing around and something made me notice, that Chromium browser’s latest builds support flash. Finally. Great. Coders say that “it’s very unstable and causes lots of crashes”, but i spent about an hour viewing stuff on youtube. No crashes, stalls nor any trouble whatsoever. I think that if i really try, i can kill the plugin, but that’s not really anyting new. After all i’ve been using latest builds of so many different softwares, that some crashes are familiar. And shiretoko’s (that i build myself) flash-plugin dies every now and then. I guess i should install “official” 3.5.2…
After more googling i found out that there’s “adsweep” plugin for chrome/chromium. It installed without any difficulties. You don’t even need to use userscript to get it working.
Let’s take a look of my last night’s Futuremark Peacekeeper results…

As you can see, Firefox 3.5.2 keeps getting better on every update. Opera 10 is in RC-state, which means that there’s not much radical changes ahead considering final 10 release. Nightly build (24734) of Chromium 4.0.204.0 runs over it’s earlier builds as easily as i drink coffee in the morning.
Chromium, with 2294 points, beating it’s old score of 1924. And now there are working implementation of flash-plugin and adsweep, which make this much more usable than earlier builds. That’s when i decided really to give chromium a go.
But. Not that fast! – You’ll need to start chromium with these options:
chromium-browser --enable-greasemonkey --enable-user-scripts --enable-extensions --enable-plugins
instead of just:
chromium-browser
Then you should copy plugin file to chromium folder:
sudo cp /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins
Lastly, check out http://www.adsweep.org/, download adsweep.crx and install it wit answering “yes” :). Restart chromium and check back adsweep site, to confirm that plugin is in use.
Let’s go through few cons of these operations.. Pros we know. The fastest browser available. Frankly, it loaded our band’s myspace page with ads much faster than firefox 3.5.2 did with adblock running…
- Unstable! Don’t ignore this, if you don’t want crashes. This software is not ready for stable “granma proof use” yet.
- Fonts. Somehow chromium renders fonts differently, than (for example) FF. So don’t be surprised, if your pages look “a bit” different than what you’ve used to.
- Themeobientlessness. Awful word (not exactly even sure if it is a word). You can choose to “use GTK theme”, which just uses your button images. You’ll still have min:max:close buttons on the right top corner of the window.
I’m going to give it a go for week or two as my main browser. We’ll see how it manages everyday use. I guess i’ll have to figure java out…
Sorry FF & Opera. You rule, but you’re just a bit behind. Personally i can’t wait for FF3.7/4 to come out. Then we’ll see who’s who in modern browser wars.
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