Of course, Google has been trying to downplay the version numbers now that they’re upgrading the browser every six weeks or so. For example, Google has just released Chrome 11, but Canary is already on Chrome 13. This means that you could keep the stable version on your system for your real work, and load up Canary when you want to play with the new Chrome features that won’t be released for weeks or months. Plus, the entire point of Canary is that you can install it and run it alongside another version of Chrome. And plug-in and codec support can often be lacking. Sure, you could just download Chromium itself, but that is far less stable as it’s updated many times a day. Technically, Canary is a pre-Dev build of the software that gets automatically updated daily (or so) with the best stuff from Chromium. Why care about Canary? Well, if you want to absolutely be on the bleeding edge of Chrome, it’s the place to be. For example, here you can see a screenshot of the Canary welcome screen on OS X - you’ll note the all-yellow icon, the key visual cue to let users know which build they’re using. But there are even more clues that this in the case tucked away inside threads on the development forums. We’ve reached out to Google about the possibility of Canary finally coming to OS X, but have yet to hear back. And yes, it’s 13.0752.0 - just like the Windows branch. Sure enough, looking over the “ OmahaProxy” numbers that Google uses to keep track of Chrome progress across all platforms, there is now a “mac canary” build. The browser cannot be made the default browser through the preferences and the release monitor says that the latest version was released today, using the same revision as Windows’ Canary. While it has not been released yet, Google does seem to be ready to release Google Chrome Canary for Mac OS X systems. Peter Beverloo, a developer who tracks Chrome and Chromium closely (and appropriately will soon be working at Google on the Chrome team) pointed out this morning that Chrome version 13 should be the first one to gain Canary status on OS X. In fact, it looks to already be working, they just need to add a download link somewhere so that people can actually get it. Given the talk in the Chromium development forums, it looks as if Google is just about ready to push out a Canary build of Chrome for OS X as well. But it looks like that’s about to change. Sadly, it has been a Windows-only build until now. But ever since last year, there’s actually been a fourth channel as well that’s less publicized: Canary. Users of Google Chrome are probably aware of the three channels you can use depending on how cutting edge you want to be (and how much you mind bugs): Dev, Beta, Stable.
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