As you may know, Google Chrome is among the most popular, cross-platform internet browser on the market.
Recently, Google Chrome Dev (unstable) 44 (44.0.2403.9) has been added to the default repositories, bringing a bunch of interesting changes. From the changelog:
“Implement all resolution change policies for desktop and tab capture. Prior to this change, desktop/window capture would emit frames of any size, regardless of the resolution change policy, and tab capture would always emit frames of a fixed resolution. This change allows the client to specify capture constraints that configure the capture pipeline to do (or not do) the scaling/letterboxing,”
Google Chrome is developed on three branches, all the new features get implemented on the dev (unstable) channel, after enough tests are performed they get moved to the beta channel and some of the new features from the beta channel get implemented in the stable branch, the branch recommended for regular users that want a stable experience.
Installation instructions:
Google Chrome is available via the Google repositories for all the popular Linux systems, so installing and keeping Chrome up to date will be easy.
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Dev) on Ubuntu, Debian and derivative systems:
Instructions for bot 32 bith and 64 bit systems:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-unstable
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Dev) on Fedora, CentOS and derivative systems:
Instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems:
Add the repository to your system:
$ sudo su
$ cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - \$basearch
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/\$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
EOF
Update the local repository index and install the google-chrome-stable package:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install google-chrome-unstable
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo yum remove google-chrome-unstable
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Dev) on OpenSUSE and derivative systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-unstable
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-unstable
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo zypper remove google-chrome-unstable
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Dev) on Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_i386 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-unstable
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_x86_64 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-unstable
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo urpme google-chrome-unstable