Ben Gooder from Google has revealed that the Linux version of Google Chrome will be using the Gtk+ developer libraries.
This is partly the cause of the delay with both Mac and Linux versions of Chrome, as using native GUI libraries for each version of Chrome requires a large amount of extra time.
Gooder explains “that using these frameworks also limits what you can do to a lowest common denominator subset of what’s supported by that framework on each platform”.
In the long run, this means that Chrome for Linux will look like Chrome for Linux, instead of having a foreign interface.
A release date for Google Chrome Linux is still to be announced.