The Lazy Person’s Guide to Getting the Latest and Greatest Chrome Features
Posted on 13. Apr, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome, Tips
I’m not a lazy person. Of course, when certain situations require it I can certainly go into lazy mode just like everyone can. But there are times that this way of thinking can actually help you get things done faster. It’s amazing when the most efficient method actually seems like the laziest option, but who’s to say you’re in the wrong if they are one and the same?
This can be said for seeing what’s new with Chrome. I download the Chromium open source browser on a daily basis so that I can see the latest and greatest changes that are happening to the browser. Sometimes I will download it several times in a 24 hour period. There’s a drawback to that, however, in that this version does not come with plugins such as Flash and does not autoupdate.
You can automate this process to some degree by using the Chromium updater tool. But if you really want to get the best of both worlds it’s best to just get the Canary version of Chrome. Many of people have never heard of it, but it’s the first release out of Chromium that becomes Chrome, meaning that it will autoupdate for you and come with Flash as well as the integrated PDF reader.
You’ll get a new version every day with Canary, and that means as close to the latest and greatest without having to download and run a new executable all the time. On the flip side however that means there will be bugs. If you can handle browser crashes and your scroll bar disappearing as I have had in the past few days with Canary, then you’re a perfect candidate.
One other drawback is that Mac and Linux users don’t have this option yet, since Canary is only available for Windows right now. Otherwise, you’ll need to download Chromium yourself, or that updater is always as available for you as well.
Are you using Chrome Canary? What’s your favorite Chrome Channel?
11 Responses to “The Lazy Person’s Guide to Getting the Latest and Greatest Chrome Features”
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Apha
13. Apr, 2011
i prefer the Devchannel, that way i get both new features and stability
(More or less, but i had no serious bugs so far!)
bob
13. Apr, 2011
beta is better
Chromestory
13. Apr, 2011
uhmm, does canary update on a daily basis ? I dont think so ..
Airworthy
13. Apr, 2011
I am currently using Developer because I enjoy the UI changes and updates. My impression is the Canary build offers additional performance and functionality features.
Is the Canary build of Chrome actually much more advanced than the Developer and Beta builds?
Daniel Cawrey
13. Apr, 2011
Almost daily. Please read the top two posts here http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/bf71d02dae94eb88?pli=1
Gabe Morgan
13. Apr, 2011
What is great about the Chrome Canary build is you can have it installed and still have a separate Dev, Beta or Stable version of Chrome. So if Canary misbehaves you still have a more stable version of Chrome available.
Tom
13. Apr, 2011
I use the stable Chrome and Canary.
Ricardo
13. Apr, 2011
Yes Daniel, that’s probably every other day. At least, I don’t get updates every day on the Canary build. You can call me crazy but my experience tells me that the Canary build is pretty stable! I rarely have a crash with Canary and I already had some crashes with the Beta builds. Most of times it’s because of flash and java.
So, here it’s Beta and Canary.
A340-600
13. Apr, 2011
I LOVE the beta channel! I have the Canary build channel but I keep going to the Beta channel, only because it’s what I’m used to and if I want to use another browser, I’ll launch IE9.
Oris WilliamsF1
30. Apr, 2011
You can call me crazy but my experience tells me that the Canary build is pretty stable! I rarely have a crash with Canary and I already had some crashes with the Beta builds. Most of times it’s because of flash and java.
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