On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote: > 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-obsolete-updated/3970 > ] > 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? > If the Chromium builds that Johnny packaged still work, those are what you'll want to use. There may be a more recent source than is detailed here however: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-June/135238.html http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2013/install-chromium-on-centos-red-hat-rhel/ > > I am not particularly excited about running a package from a small > third party. Particularly a browser. > > Is this situation really that bad? > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //