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The Chromium package in Ubuntu is several major versions behind, and I would definitely not suggest using it. Debian has up-to-date versions in sid. Firefox on Ubuntu gets timely (within a couple days of upstream) updates, and the official Chrome PPA (from Google, installed when you use their .deb package) is kept up to date.

Edited for correctness, thanks xfs.



"effectively unmaintained"? It has 21 updates till now in this year, probably just one release behind chromium stable channel. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/chromium-b...

Of course you need sid, because of too many bugs.


I'll edit my post, you're absolutely right.


Is the "official Chrome PPA" the same thing as the APT repository that the Chrome .deb (downloaded from google.com/chrome) adds to your sources.list?




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