Today Google-Chrome Overtook Firefox

For anecdotal evidence, after Firefox staying above 42% for a long time and Chrome/ium in the 20s, over the recent two weeks this gap has narrowed and today for the first time Chrome is at 38% with 1135 page views and Firefox on 37% with 1094. Read into that what you will, this blog may not be representative.  It's a shame though, Firefox 22 has shaped up to a really nice browser with some great functionality added and memory leaks fixed. At the same time, Chrome belongs to Google and they may be spying on you every step of the way and passing it on. I'll be interested in Opera 15 when it comes out for Linux. Hope it isn't another Flock 'social' browser.

Building Chromium for Slackware64

Chromium, the browser, can sometimes seem a bit evasive on the Slackware64 platform. For a start, the binaries more commonly distributed are either deb or rpm files, and although Slackware with the 13.37 release has gone the extra mile to accomodate a new browser and added a build script for Google-Chrome under extra/ in the repositories, there is none for Chromium.