{"id":26556,"date":"2009-05-31T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/31\/google-chromium-browser-for-li\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T14:08:06","slug":"google-chromium-browser-for-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/google-chromium-browser-for-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chromium browser for Linux is now Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and Ars has a look at it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The latest alpha build of Chromium provides basic browsing functionality and a few of Chrome&#8217;s other features. I was able to load pages, open new tabs and windows, use the browser&#8217;s full-page zoom, download files, view and manage history, and run the Incognito privacy mode.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the features were only partially implemented. It is possible to reorder tabs in each window, but you can&#8217;t snap out a tab yet or move tabs between windows. Bookmarking basically works, but with several limitations. Clicking on the bookmark star icon doesn&#8217;t pop out the bookmark editing bubble. The bookmark manager is also not implemented yet. Users can, however, toggle the visibility of the bookmark bar and edit its contents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember:  With baboons, Alpha is good.  With software, Alpha is not.  This sounds better than the hacked up version I last tried, but it is not there yet.  But perhaps it is just arond the corner.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/open-source\/news\/2009\/05\/hands-on-google-chromium-browser-alpha-for-linux.ars\"><br \/>\nars technica review is here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and Ars has a look at it. The latest alpha build of Chromium provides basic browsing functionality and a few of Chrome&#8217;s other features. I was able to load pages, open new tabs and windows, use the browser&#8217;s full-page zoom, download files, view and manage history, and run the Incognito privacy mode. The rest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/31\/google-chromium-browser-for-li\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google Chromium browser for Linux is now Alpha<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Uk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}