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Chromium web browser

Fedora does not include Chromium web browser in the official repository due to problems outlined in

http://ostatic.com/blog/making-projects-easier-to-package-why-chromium-isnt-in-fedora

Tom 'spot' Callaway maintains his own packages of Chromium at

http://fedorapeople.org/~spot/chromium/

To use this repo, create a chromium.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d as root user with the following content 


[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/$releasever/
enabled=1 
gpgcheck=0

Use PackageKit or run the following command as root user 

yum install chromium

Google Chrome

Fedora does not include Google Chrome because is a proprietary product and bundles other proprietary software such as Adobe Flash plugin however Google does maintain a yum repository at

http://www.google.com/chrome/

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