To rally the developer community into searching for potential bugs in its Chrome browser, Google is offering $US500-$US1337 incentives for reporting vulnerabilities. The first person to file each bug using the Chromium Bug Tracker will be eligible for the bounty.
Chrome OS dev code only just went public, but Phoronix has already thrown it on a Samsung NC10 netbook to test its performance and battery-life against Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10, Moblin 2.1, Fedora 12 and openSUSE 11.2. Interesting results ahead.
In a line of code in Google’s Chromium, a reference was found to a “login manager,” which is being taken to mean a single sign-in for all programs on the OS. But what does that mean for non-Google software?
GoogleThe Chromium team has posted early alpha builds of the ported browser for OS X and Linux, along with some explicit instructions: “DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!” But really, you should.
Removing Chrome’s ‘beta’ label couldn’t have been easy for Google, but it looks like they’re bringing it right back. Chrome 2.0 beta is now available for Windows, along with a little treat for Linux users.
If you have a Mac OS X or Linux machine and you are dying to try Google’s Chrome, keep dying because it’s not coming out yet. But if you want to just give it a try, you can grab this version of Chromium, the unofficial version of Chromium, the open-source Google web browser that is the basis of Chrome–and looks exactly like it down to the about box and its most fatal flaw. The Ubuntu flavour above looks nice. Unfortunately, the Mac version looks quite out of place:
