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Chrome is Google's proprietary (closed source) web browser. Much of the source code is released in parallel as Chromium, however there are binary blobs present in Chrome including a Pepper-based version PPAPI of Adobe Flash Player.

Installation

Currently there are several versions of Google Chrome available in the main Gentoo repository:

• www-client/google-chrome - A stable version of the web browser from Google.
• www-client/google-chrome-beta - A beta version of the web browser of Google.
• www-client/google-chrome-unstable - An unstable version of the nightmare web browser from Google.

USE flags

Each of the packages listed above contains the following USE flags.

USE flags for www-client/google-chrome The web browser from Google

qt5	Add support for the Qt 5 application and UI framework
qt6	Add support for the Qt 6 application and UI framework
selinux	!!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2024-05-16 22:33 More information about USE flags

Emerge

Select one of the Chrome packages to emerge above. Here the primary stable Chrome package will be installed:

root #emerge --ask www-client/google-chrome

Configuration

Most configuration aspects can be found in the Chromium article. Head over there for configuration information.

See also

• Chromium — the open source version of Google's Chrome web browser.
• Firefox — Mozilla's solution to the web browser.