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Williamlweaver bookmarked on 2008-11-13 chrome google linux

Hooray! I would much rather wait for a native application built from the ground up, rather than use a hasty hack that is simply a crude port...

  • Aaron Boodman, who works on Chrome and Gears and spotlighted the Linux accomplishment, had this explanation in his blog post about the Linux Chrome milestone: "The test shell is a very simple browser that the Chromium development team uses for testing our integration with WebKit," the engine that decodes HTML to render a Web page in the browser. "It is the first step of porting Chromium to a new platform."

This link has been bookmarked by 1 people . It was first bookmarked on 13 Nov 2008, by William Weaver.

  • 13 Nov 08
    williamlweaver
    William Weaver

    Hooray! I would much rather wait for a native application built from the ground up, rather than use a hasty hack that is simply a crude port...

    chrome google linux

    • Aaron Boodman, who works on Chrome and Gears and spotlighted the Linux accomplishment, had this explanation in his blog post about the Linux Chrome milestone: "The test shell is a very simple browser that the Chromium development team uses for testing our integration with WebKit," the engine that decodes HTML to render a Web page in the browser. "It is the first step of porting Chromium to a new platform."