I have been using CentOS on my laptop for a few days now and it works great! Great work-around for the Fedora GNOME 3 debacle.
But I'm starting to miss Google Chrome pretty seriously. Firefox is just not what it once was. It's slow. Spell check is weak. Sometimes it straight up fails to display pages after going "back". There are numerous details like this that just make FF almost intolerable. And based on current browser usage statistics I don't think I'm the only one who sees the difference which means the problem is only going to get worse.
Unfortunately Chrome is not available for CentOS 6.4:
Error: Package: google-chrome-stable-31.0.1650.57-1.x86_64 (google-chrome) Requires: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.15)(64bit)
This page [http://www.muktware.com/2013/02/google-says-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-is-ob...] claims:
"Chrome, the browser in question here, is based on the open source project Chromium. Chromium developers seems to prefer the new C++11 for the obvious security reasons and ease of maintenance but it also means adopting a new toolchain and upgrading to GCC 4.6. This makes it hard to support those operating systems that ship with older C++ standard libraries. RHEL 6, among many others, is one such operating system."
What is the safest path out of this problem?
I am not particularly excited about running a package from a small third party. Particularly a browser.
Is this situation really that bad?
Mike