On May 20th, 2021 with 32 comments
Linux on Chromebooks is finally coming out of beta with the release of Chrome OS 91, Google said at its developer I/O conference. From a report: The company...
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On November 3rd, 2020 with 33 comments
Mint's programmers, led by lead developer, Clement "Clem" Lefebvre, have built their own take on Google's open-source Chromium web browser. ZDNet reports: ...
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On October 25th, 2020 with 52 comments
"No one asked Microsoft to port its Edge browser to Linux," writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet, adding "Indeed, very few people asked for Edge on...
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On November 7th, 2019 with 15 comments
The latest version of Chrome OS, version 78, adds separate browser and device settings, click-to-call, and picture-in-picture support for YouTube. It also...
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On October 5th, 2019 with 93 comments
Microsoft appears to be porting its Edge browser to Linux, reports ZDNet:
"We on the MS Edge Dev team are fleshing out requirements to bring Edge to Linux,...
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On May 13th, 2019 with 406 comments
"2019 is truly, finally shaping up to be the year of Linux on the desktop," writes PC World's senior editor, adding "Laptops, too!"
But most people won't know...
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On May 8th, 2018 with 106 comments
Google today announced Chrome OS is getting Linux support. "As a result, Chromebooks will soon be able to run Linux apps and execute Linux commands," reports...
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On March 6th, 2018 with 94 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's Chrome browser is now built using the Clang compiler on Windows. Previously built using the...
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On March 23rd, 2017 with 114 comments
Iain Thomson, reporting for The Register: Plenty of Linux users are up in arms about the performance of the OneDrive web app. They say that when accessing...
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On December 16th, 2016 with 164 comments
An anonymous reader writes: It's the year of the Linux desktop getting pwned. Chris Evans (not the red white and blue one) has released a number of linux zero...
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On July 2nd, 2016 with 249 comments
LichtSpektren writes: W3Counter's stats for June 2016 are in, and Linux desktop accounts for 2.48% of all web visits from tracked websites... (Android is...
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On December 17th, 2015 with 44 comments
An anonymous reader writes: VideoLAN today launched VLC, the world's most used media player, for Chrome OS. You can download the new app, which is a port of...
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On December 1st, 2015 with 175 comments
prisoninmate writes: Google announces that its Google Chrome web browser will no longer be available for 32-bit hardware platforms. Additionally, Google Chrome...
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On March 8th, 2015 with 338 comments
An anonymous reader writes Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser does not support slightly older versions of the Linux kernel anymore. Linux 3.17 is now the...
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On March 4th, 2014 with 295 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Citing 'code we consider to be permanently "experimental" or "beta,"' Google Chrome engineers have no plans on enabling video...
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On February 11th, 2013 with 231 comments
sfcrazy writes "Google has declared Red Hat's RHEL 6 obsolete, showing a notification which says, 'Google Chrome us no longer updating because your operating...
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On March 31st, 2012 with 426 comments
dartttt writes "Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is the final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward...
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On June 13th, 2011 with 204 comments
jbrodkin writes "Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth is a big fan of Google Chrome, and says the browser could replace the standard Firefox in future versions...
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On December 29th, 2009 with 223 comments
omlx contributes this link to LinuxCrunch's short review of Google Chrome on Linux, writing: "The summary of it is that although Google Chrome is in a beta...
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