Curiosity question to Linux users from a Linux user

Yep, it is updated every day. Now, if you are using the one from the main repos and it works for you, I would stick with it. There isn't a whole lot of difference in them. The one in the repos will be updated as needed (security and bug fixes, etc). I just like to live on the edge with the nightly builds.

 

TBH, I wouldn't trust the Ubuntu repos with something that's so bleeding-edge and meant to be updated daily.

There seems to be no point in using Chromium if you don't update it on a regular basis, though. Might be more practical to stick with Chrome instead.

 

Why not? Lots of people use the Chromium nightly build PPA.

 

OK, point taken, I only wanted to see how it compares to Opera. Chrome apparently comes with tracker stuff which I don't like - would prefer the open source Chromium.
My current bandwidth constraints will unfortunately not be condusive to daily build downloads. Maybe to counter boredom I will get Opera 10.54 http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/05/12/unix-bug-fixes and compare it to my current 10.10

 

Currently running Chrome and Opera, Chrome excels on Google sites like Youtube whereas overall the Opera beta 10.54 is faster here.

 

That's different from the chromium-browser package from the Ubuntu repos, isn't it?

Personally, I don't see the "tracker" stuff as a practical concern. But that's just me.

Another option, if you don't want daily Chromium updates, is to write your own bash script that wgets Chromium off the Chromium project's snapshot server as .zip packages, then schedule a cronjob to run it as desired (this is what I'm doing now).

 

Looks like a clever way to do things if you don't want a new build every day. Unfortunately for me I have not yet written my own bash scripts and neither have I dabbled with cron jobs. I found this bash script on the net (sans cron job). Is it similar to yours ?

Code:

#/bin/sh
 
echo "Chromium daily build downloader";
echo "-------------------------------\n";
 
STARTDIR=`pwd`
INSTALLDIR="$HOME/Desktop"
CONFDIR="$HOME/.chrome"
 
cd $CONFDIR
OLDVERS=`cat CURRENT`
 
if [ "$1" != "" ]
# Get specific version
then
        CVERS=$1
        echo "$1" > NEW
# Get newest version
else
        wget -q http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/LATEST -O NEW
        CVERS=`cat NEW`
fi
 
if [ "$CVERS" = "$OLDVERS" ]
then
        echo "Got the newest version: $OLDVERS";
        rm NEW
else
        echo "Downloading version: $CVERS, $((CVERS-OLDVERS)) revision(s) difference";
        wget -q http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/$CVERS/chrome-linux.zip
        if [ $? != 0 ]
        then
                echo "ERROR: Build number $CVERS could not be found"
        else
                echo "Unziping...";
                unzip -q chrome-linux.zip -d $INSTALLDIR
                rm chrome-linux.zip
                mv NEW CURRENT
        fi
fi
 
cd $STARTDIR
echo "\nDONE";

 

Mine is much less fancy, with no error/version checks - I know exactly what environment my script is running in so I don't need those.

The script you posted seems to download and extract Chromium to the desktop. It should work well, just modify the INSTALLDIR variable from $HOME/Desktop to point to where you want Chromium extracted.

 

A question: How's Chromium related to OP's questions?
Mrk