Google's Chromium project ported to N900

Web browsing fiends of the world already have enough reason to envy N900 owners on account of the built-in browser's excellence and the availability of an official Firefox release -- both with full Flash support -- but if that's enough, there's now another name-brand option in the works. Well, sort of. You see, Chromium for Maemo isn't an official port -- but the Maemo community is filled with tinkerers, and that has inevitably led to the availability of a hacked version of the Debian release that apparently works quite wonderfully on the N900 (yes, including Flash) with a 100 score on the elusive Acid test. It's said to be a little buggy at the moment, so hopefully that'll improve over time; you've got to download and install the package manually rather than going through a repo, but as an N900 owner, odds are pretty good that you're familiar with the tactic already. Perhaps Google wants to take this little project over?

[Thanks, Sp4mer]

[JFH Posted Apr 9th 2010 8:59PM]

@Atlantian

Can you spell idiot? I - D - I - O - T.

[JFH Posted Apr 9th 2010 9:06PM]

@CtrlBurn

AT&T's 3G is hardly a reason to chose one over the other, and my personal take is that, from the point of view of a single user, does it really matter whether there are 10,000 or 50,000 apps? Do I need 50 twitter clients when there are 5 or 6 good ones?

[pankomputerek Posted Apr 10th 2010 6:05AM]

I need N900!

[kenjiru Posted Apr 10th 2010 7:03AM]

I need one of these things!

[baG Posted Apr 11th 2010 8:08AM]

There's also a video demo of Chrome on N900, here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6C3t_UmwyQ