Google’s Chromium project ported to N900
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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]
Google’s Chromium project ported to N900 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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