0 Google Chrome becomes the most popular web-browser

It’s official now. Google Chrome has finally become the most popular web browser. According to web analytics website StatCounter, for the first time in the history of internet, Google’s Chrome web-browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the most used internet browserworldwide. Interestingly, Asia and South America has contributed most to the Chrome traffic share, while Internet Explorer and Firefox are more popular in North America and Europe respectively. However in India, Chrome is the most popular webbrowser with Firefox on second place.

0 Google Chrome On Fedora 15

Installing Google Chrome on Fedora 15 64-bit is relatively simple, once you add the Chrome Repo to the Repos directory.

As root user, change directory to /etc/yum.repos.d.

Use Emacs, Vim, or any other editor and add the following:

[google64]
name=Google - x86_64
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Save the file as google.repo

This adds the 64-bit Chrome repo.

Next run the following yum command:

yum install google-chrome-stable

When quizzed, press 'y' to answer 'yes'.

Yum install will run to completion.

Click 'Activities' > 'Internet' > Google Chrome

You got Chrome.

If you want 32-bit add the following repo instead:

[google]
name=Google - i386
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub

Then run the yum command:

yum install google-chrome-stable

You have Chrome 32-bit installed.