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Two reasons: 1) Where can I find official-ish Chromium for Windows? 2) On Ubuntu, Chromium always seems to be behind Chrome wrt updates. I tried Chromium on

• pavanky 14y ago
  > 1) Where can I find official-ish Chromium for Windows? Apparently this is the page to look out for. http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-sna... But looks like the downloading part is not straight forward. Look at the second answer at in the following link. http://superuser.com/questions/203606/where-can-i-get-chromium-binaries http://superuser.com/questions/203606/where-can-i-get-chromi... >2) On Ubuntu, Chromium always seems to be behind Chrome wrt updates. This has to do with an Ubuntu repository (for chromium) vs PPA from Google (for chrome). Ubuntu is always going to be a bit behind upstream. The same way it is a few days behind upstream firefox or other software. If you absolutely need the bleeding edge version of google chrome, either use something like archlinux (where you get updates within a day or two), or continue with Ubuntu, but use a ppa for chromium beta which is available from here (http://askubuntu.com/questions/126092/where-are-the-daily-builds-for-chromium-for-12-04 http://askubuntu.com/questions/126092/where-are-the-daily-bu...).