install chrome for opensuse 12.1
http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2011/12/at-work-with-linux-looking-around.html
I then turned to the repositories. From the repositories you can either install Chromium or Chrome. Chromium stands at beta version 17, while stable Chrome stands at version 7 (at this point in time). Being lazy I installed the repository version of Chrome from Google first to pick up all the dependencies and then installed the downloaded deb:
Open a Konsole, stay in the home (login) directory
Run command: sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/`uname -i` google-chrome
Run command: sudo zypper in google-chrome-stable
Run command: sudo rpm -Uhv Downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
After that I had the latest stable Google Chrome (version 15 and change). We'll just have to see if it gets automatically updated from the Google mothership. Another experiment...