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My friends over at Techcrunch released a Chromium updater for OS X today (disclosure, I guess, I currently admin the Techcrunch sites). I’ve been using Chromium on Linux for a while and am starting to really like it. It just so happens I have a shell script that sort of does the same thing. Namely, figures out what the newest build is, cleans out my current build, and replaces it with the new one. Chromium isn’t as polished by a long shot on Linux as it is on OS X, but it’s still cool to play with.

Anyway, if you want the script, here it is: get_chromium.

You’ll need to set executable permissions on it of course. It will download the newest release, and unzip it into your home directory. You can run it from a shell as follows:

chl@melian:~$ ~/chrome-linux/chrome --enable-plugins

This works for Ubuntu Jaunty, 32bit. Haven’t tried it out elsewhere.