Google later this year plans to release a browser-based operating system called Chrome OS. With version 5, Chrome arrived in stable form for Mac OS X and Linux as well. The next major version of Google's browser, Chrome 6, likely will arrive in beta form soon since developers recently froze the code base to stabilize it.Ĭhrome has steadily gained usage share since its first beta release in September 2008. Stable versions have arrived roughly once a quarter, and Google wants to double that pace. While Chrome Canary could be updated as often as once a day, Google plans to release stable versions of Chrome more frequently as well. In other words, it's the canary in the coal mine-something that will indicate early signs of trouble. The data we get back from canary users-especially crash statistics-helps us find and fix regressions faster." Successful nightly builds," said Mark Larson, "I recommend it for anyone who wants to help test the latest Chrome features. Of bustage), and we're working on making it update as often as we have "The canary usually updates more frequently than the Dev channel (higher risk Perhaps more interesting to Chrome enthusiasts is that Google plans to update Canary more often than the developer release, new versions of which arrive roughly every two weeks. That lets developers test different versions more easily on the same computer, although Canary is available only for Windows at present. Google has released a fourth version of Chrome called Canary for those keen on the latest features but willing to put up with more bugs and crashes.Ĭhrome Canary installs alongside any of the three existing versions of Chrome-stable, beta, and developer, according to a mailing list message by Google programmer Huan Ren last week.
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