It’s been a while since I got chance to get my hands on the Ubuntu version of Chrome and Chromium. Netbook is busy changing to latest Chromium OS versions these days and never got a chance to go to Ubuntu and check it out.
I miss Ubuntu .. but you don’t have to worry about getting to know about the latest from Ubuntu .. because OMG Ubuntu is serving the hot stuff there. Latest new is from the 11.04 release of Ubuntu.
The latest daily builds of Chromium come with a neat gift for Natty users – Unity Launcher progress bar and badge support for active downloads., says OMG Ubuntu.
This is interesting, because it’s been only few days since the new version of Ubuntu launched. So, Ubuntu users here, happy  ? 
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You can install/upgrade to the latest Chromium Daily build using the Chromium Daily builds PPA: -
enjoy !!
Chromium daily builds in Ubuntu have a new addition to about:flags page. Experimental support for Ubuntu’s Global Menu. One more step by Google Chrome team towards making Chrome blend will with Ubuntu desktop experience.
Global Menu on Chrome Ubuntu
What Is Global Menu
In a global menu, the application menus like File, Edit, Settings etc. are part of the panel and all applications share this menu. This is one of the steps Ubuntu took to save more screen space on notebooks and netbooks.
Chrome, which has done everything possible to keep things simple to give more browsing space, is on the right direction here ! This feature will eventually be added to Chrome on Ubuntu.
Hope you geeks will enjoy it !
via OMG Ubuntu
There is a new development about Google Chrome for Linux and Mac. ReadWriteWeb found a change in the Google Chrome privacy policy that hints to the release of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac operating systems.
The Change.
OLD:
The Privacy Policy below applies only to Google Chrome for Windows. For the Developer channel releases on other platforms see the privacy policies for Mac OS X and Linux .
NEW:
The Google Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information when you use Google’s products and services
On Google Chrome for Windows, You can configure Google Chrome to not send cookies to Google or other sites as explained here. Google Chrome for Mac and Google Chrome for Linux currently do not allow this level of configuration.
So, we have a strong reason to believe that release date for the stable version of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac is near.
Is it a BIG news ?
It is a big news for people who do not use the development version of Google Chrome for Mac and Linux. However, for those who do not use these, will be really excited to see this news. There is another group who can be happy about this. When they released Chrome development version for Linux, it was only for Ubuntu users. So, users on other Linux distributions like Fedora was left out. This time when the stable version of Linux Chrome is out, we should expect Chrome for all distributions on Linux.
PLUS, I believe that Google will bring the Extensions and Theme support for all platforms Windows, Mac and Linux, to the stable versions. It’s going to be REAL BIG !!