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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.

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  1. Already have Safari, kbyethnx by The+Nipponese · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why would I need this? I already have a webkit browser with tabs on top.

    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. 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).

  2. Re:Wha...? by noundi · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Before commenting on OSS development process you could, I don't know, do something as wild and crazy as perhaps READING how it's usually done. If you would have used your eyes before your itchy fingers you'd understand that OSS development is more often done behind open doors. Naturally the project has to start somewhere, right? Or did you think the stork delivered software as well?

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  3. FpN homo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    problem stems number of FreeBSD GNAA (GAY NIGGEr World will have

  4. 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.