How to Use Google Labs in Chromium
Posted on 28. Aug, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Tutorials
Google’s calling the ability to use “crazy experimental stuff” within the browser Google Chrome Labs. Here’s what you need to do to enable Labs right now.
The ability to use Labs is only available in Chromium right now. So the first thing you need to do is get the most recent version. Head over to here to find the platform you use.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the list to get the newest build. You can see here that there are already several new builds for today, just pick the newest one.
Once you have installed the latest copy of Chromium using the appropriate installation files for your system, go ahead and enter in about:labs in the omnibox.
Right now the only Chromium Lab available is using side tabs. If you’re using Chrome, you can already use this feature, and I’ve already written a guide on how. According to ReadWriteWeb, Mac users will see something called expose-for-tabs, and right now Linux does not have any Lab features available.
I would expect to see some pretty cool stuff in labs, but it will usually require one to have the updated version of Chromium to get the newest features. We’ll keep you posted when new ones pop up.
