[wplug] Google Chrome?

Joshua Solomon jdsbluedevl at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 21:09:47 EDT 2008


Maybe Epiphany has switched, but it hasn't shown up in the Ubuntu repos yet.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Patrick Wagstrom <patrick at wagstrom.net>wrote:

> Joshua Solomon wrote:
> > On the other hand, it'll be nice to have a WebKit option for GTK
> > desktops without having to run Qt libraries.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Ed Stewart <edstewart1 at verizon.net
> > <mailto:edstewart1 at verizon.net>> wrote:
> >     Zach Uram wrote:
> >     > Has anyone tried it? I hope it is ported to Linux soon. Wonder if
> it
> >     > will eat into Firefox's market share? I hope FIrefox and Chrome can
> >     > work together to eat away at Internet Explorer's 80% market share!
> >     >
> >     > Zach
> >     >
> >     I want to give it a try also. I have XP pro running in Innotek
> >     Virtualbox and downloaded IE8 to have a look. Nothing impressive
> >     with it. Ed
>
> This actually has nothing to do with providing a GTK webkit option.  Such
> an option has been around for a while, Epiphany switched to webkit a while
> back.  OpenedHand has been doing some interesting hacking with WebKit/GTK
> too.  Much of the great work has been done by Alp Toker.  In fact, the GTK+
> port of webkit scores 100/100 on the Acid3, while the current QT version
> does not, although Holger Freyther has made some good progress toward that
> goal.
>
> --Patrick
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