While Google Chrome Is only in Beta at version 9 for Linux, the upstream project, Chromium, has all the latest features. Spot has provided a repo with packages for some of your favorite platforms.
For development, I run the browser on the same serve that I install freeipa-server on. To get it to run,:
chromium-browser --auth-server-whitelist=`hostname` --auth-negotiate-delegate-whitelist=`hostname`
The unit tests don’t run using the file: protocol, but I’ve run them against the Static site and they run fine.