Google Chrome could soon integrate happily with Ubuntu: Mark Shuttleworth has explicitly expressed interest in the partnership, which could see its first applications during 2012.
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The Ubuntu development team is following the development of Google Chrome with great interest: this is essentially what Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, revealed in an interview with Network World.
There would therefore be the possibility of testing this union as early as 2012, although a decisive change of course is unlikely to happen with version 11.10, expected in the autumn, probably already in October 2011.
Those working on the constant development of Chrome seem to be paying particular attention to the experience on Linux, and in fact the results are appreciable.
Hence the ever-increasing interest (mutual at this point) from Ubuntu developers.
Up until today, the default browser used on Ubuntu has been Firefox, with the current version 4. However, nothing has ever prevented users from choosing Chrome, which has been available via repositories.
Beyond the purely technical aspect, the implications of this choice could also have indirect repercussions: choosing Chrome, and therefore one of Google’s products, could attract new users to Ubuntu, which until now has still been considered an environment for expert “tinkerers”.
And what if this openness towards Chrome led more “common users” to embrace Ubuntu’s products and philosophy? It’s a hypothesis, a possibility that is probably not at the center of the choice of the teams in question but should not be underestimated.
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