How to Install Chromium 12 in Ubuntu (11.04, 10.04 and 10.10)?

In truth it was Chromium which is the basic foundation behind the most successful (recent that is) web browser of Google Chrome. And few hours ago Chromium developers released the 12 th stable version and the cool Ubuntu launchpad geeks have released a PPA, already!.

Although personally I don't like Chromium or Chrome that much because, I'm a bit of a freak and I certainly don't like their simplicity. Plus, beware if you use Chrome because sometime ago a certain rumor got out saying that the big G is using Chrome to collect our personal data!, my mother warned me about this :P.

Few of the main improvements in this Chromium 12th release...

*. Better security (especially concerning Flash "objects", now you can clear Flash "cache" easily from your browser as you would do with clearing the usual web cache).

*. Hardware accelerated 3D CSS -

The HTML5 3D "Sheep Experiment", Google says "no animals were harmed" :)...

This means that whenever you go into a web site with 3D CSS animations, etc now Chromium will use your GPU (VGA) to generate those 3D effects thus minimizing the CPU load + enhance the power usage as well since a GPU is especially designed to deal with graphics rather than a CPU thus they are almost always more efficient while dealing with graphics.

There is the Chrome (not Chromium) 12's little 3D adventure with few animals if you like, oh it's only for MS Vista or Mac OSX 10.6 or above users, bugger :/.

*. Better protection against Malicious files -

Now, any fool can warn you about a malicious website before you enter if they already know about it. But with Chromium 12 (Chrome 12 also have it) now the web browser has the ability to analyze certain "patters" when it comes to URLs thus having the ability to foresee "the danger". Of course this does not mean that we're 100% safe yet it's more than welcome feature to have around, don you think? :).

*. No more Google Gears support.

*. Enhanced screen-reader support added.

These are of course a very few to mention. Anyhow, if you use Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, 10.04 or 10.10 then you can install Chromium 12 by using the official PPA channel. To do that, open your Terminal and enter the below command.

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

That should do it for you!. Enjoy.

Chromium 11 Is Released, PPA (Stable) Channel is ready for Natty Narwhal!

Chromium has released the version 11 few hours ago and according to Ubuntu developer Fabien, the official packages for the recently released Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal should be available within the next few (2-3) days.

But if you can't wait for the official release for the Chromium 11 for Ubuntu... then the packages are already in this Stable Chromium PPA channel. If you subscribe to this channel, you'll receive the updates when the official channel for Chromium 11 is released automatically.

Before you're using the "Stable PPA"...

The developers advice you to completely remove the current daily added stable PPA channel (if it's something other than this PPA) and downgrade Chromium using this PPA (you can read more information from the above link).

The Chromium 11 also bring few major features such as the ability to completely remove adobe flash videos cache from your web browser easily via the usual "clear browsing data" command + many more bug fixes as well.

Single App Dock Icon Showing Bug for Multiple Chromium Windows in Unity Is Fixed

Unity is a bit new and as a result not everything would work perfect for a little while. If you like Chromium (which is the "real" power behind Google Chrome) and use it in Ubuntu 11.04, then until recently, when using multiple windows the dock did not show separate icon for the each window.

Basically you couldn't control multiple windows separately via the dock in Unity desktop interface due to a bug.

Via:castrojo

But according to developers this actually has been fixed!. Now the dock automatically figures out that each window should receive a separate icon of its own (eeh!, stupid computers :P). So if you've updated your Unity desktop or already using the Ubuntu 11.04 beta 1 (released few hours ago) then this will be automatically fixed!.