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I have been playing around with Chromium recently. There are a few sites that seem to run better with it (a couple of free online-games for example). If you don’t know, Chromium is basically the ‘unbranded’ version of Chrome, and is usually a fraction ahead. Think of it a bit like a stable beta. Bad analogy I know, but it’s sort of like that.

There are various ways to get the Chromium version, but there is a PPA set up for Ubuntu with the daily stable builds (and for daily unstable builds). To install the daily stable:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chromium-daily/stable

Just like Firefox, you can add plugins and some of the ones I like are:

• Adblock – not quite as good as the Firefox version, but good
• Button for Adblock – gives a button for the above plugin
• Ghostery – blocks websites from tracking you
• Google Voice – notifies you when you get a call and lets you make calls
• Day Hiker – Google calendar button / reminder

There is no proper noscript yet that I have found though, but these are a good start