CodeWeavers Releases Chrome Package for Linux
CodeWeavers, a company which sells a proprietary version of Wine, has released an easily installable package for running Google Chrome on Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a modified version of Chromium (the open source code which runs Google Chrome) combined with CodeWeaver’s modified version of Wine.
Right now the only advantage running CrossOver Chromium over Chrome with Wine is that HTTPS pages will work. This is where they probably spent most of their time, they needed to implement the winhttp DLL in Wine. CodeWeavers contributes code back to the Wine project, so Wine could soon be getting HTTPS support also.
However, CrossOver Chromium can also save you the time getting Wine set up to
work with
Chrome.
To install it, download and install either the 32 or 64 bit DEB
package. CrossOver
Chromium can be opened by selecting Applications->CrossOver
Chromium->Chromium.
Michel S.
Ah, interesting. Looks like HTTPS works as long as the certificate can be authenticated. I tried connecting to my compsci department’s site on Fedora and OS X and it did not work, but accessing Gmail through HTTPS works just fine.