“ERROR: /b/slave/chromium-rel-mac/build/src/chrome/browser/browser.cc(1009)]
Not implemented reached in void Browser::Print()”
Meaning that in Chromium 4.0.219.4 (27360) on Macintosh you still can’t print anything. :(
I tried to install Flashblock, a Chrome extension which (supposedly) works on Windows.
Unfortunately the Mac version of Chromium refuses it, answering with a "Bad version number" message.
I finally managed to download and try a bit a copy of Classilla on a Powerbook G3.
Not only it’s a free, open source browser aimed at making (again) the world wide web a bit more usable for Mac OS 9 (and Mac OS 8.6) Macs but it’s also a project with a strong sense of humor as you can see from this screenshot.
In the future I plan to keep using it and will try to report. In the meanwhile, what can I say other than.. welcome on my hard disk, Classilla! :)
Here’s an error from the Chromium for Mac build 4.0.208.0 (25971) (when launched in the Terminal, with the —enable-sync flag which still has no effect, by the way):
“[556:267:4696610131638:ERROR:/b/slave/chromium-rel-mac/build/src/chrome/browser/cocoa/bookmark_editor_controller.mm(77)] Not implemented reached in void -[BookmarkEditorController awakeFromNib](BookmarkEditorController*, objc_selector*)”
Which by the way contradicts what MG Siegler of TechCrunch wrongly stated at the end of www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/31/builds-of-chrome-get-updated-to-show-off-their-snow-leopard-spots/ about the bookmark manager being available on Macs.
No such thing here, yet.
Now similar to the one introduced a while ago in Chromium, the new Google Chrome "About" box also informs (bottom left, here in Italian, sorry) the user whether he is running the latest version of the browser or not.
If you want to follow closely the development of Google’s browser for the Macintosh or you just want to be up to date with your Chromium version the url to go is the “LATEST” directory at build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/mac/LATEST/
This directory always offers the freshest automated build from the current day (which sometimes includes more than twenty builds).
If you consider this tedious and you don’t want to manually download, unzip and replace your copy of the browser in /Application there are two handy scripts that can help you automatically doing that.
The first is Chromium Updater, an AppleScript by Dom Barnes, now at version 0.2.
The second is the similarly named Chromium Updater, a faceless app done with Automator, provided by a developer working for TechCrunch.
Looks like Flash support is present in the Chromium builds and actually has been around for a while.
On the Macintosh version it’s available since version 3.0.195* and pretty much works (although with problems) and is present also in the Google Chrome beta, recently upgraded to 3.0.196.
To use the Flash plugin you have to start the browser with the –enable-plugins (two dashes, regardless of what you see here) option from the command line.
This is how you do it on a Mac if you have copied the Chromium app into your Applications folder:
/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-plugins
While if you have a recent release of Chrome use:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --enable-plugins
Also, with newer builds of Chromium for Mac, such as the one from August, 2, 2009 there’s no need to use the command line to have Flash support
* I have tried launching version 3.0.194 (yes, I have kept around older releases for testing): Flash doesn’t work and using the –enable option returns a list of errors such as
4773:267:177542292698971:ERROR:/b/slave/chromium-rel-mac/build/src/chrome/browser/cocoa/location_bar_view_mac.mm(119)] Not implemented reached in virtual void LocationBarViewMac::OnInputInProgress(bool)
Here’s why it doesn’t work: 3.0.194 it doesn’t include three AV libraries which were added with 3.0.195 and are also present on recent Linux versions.
