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Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds

Posted by timothy on from the for-greater-shininess dept.

Dan Kegel (who admits to being a Chrome developer) writes to point out a post from Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg, Product Managers for Google Chrome, with some good news for non-Windows users who want to play with Chrome: "In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux (for a couple of different Linux distributions), but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software." (The announcement continues below.) "How incomplete? So incomplete that, among other things , you won't yet be able to view YouTube videos, change your privacy settings, set your default search provider, or even print.

Meanwhile, we'll get back to trying to get Google Chrome on these platforms stable enough for a beta release as soon as possible ..." The downloads are available through the Chrome developer's channel.

3 of 251 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Already have Safari, kbyethnx by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Webkit + tabs on top. Those are the only important factors to you? No wonder you bought a Mac.

  2. So what is this in KDE speak? by QCompson · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Final release 2.3?

    But seriously, this is how it's done KDE. Note that people still want to download it and test it despite the fact that it is not labeled a .0 release.

  3. Re:Already have Safari, kbyethnx by Cowmonaut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Imposter! You are not Captain Obvious because he would of taken *context* and *tone* into account. He was replying to a humorous counter-point to the pro-Safari poster in a manner which indicates he was in support of Safari. This much is obvious to most English readers (most because, apparently, you are one of the few exceptions).