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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. Wha...? by pHus10n · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quote: "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."

    What the hell did they release? A box of crayons where you have to draw the Internet manually? :)

    1. Re:Wha...? by SchizoStatic · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was waiting for a car analogy.

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      https://www.speakservers.com/
  2. Re:Already have Safari, kbyethnx by arodland · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Because you want one that doesn't suck.

  3. Beta? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll just wait for the final release.. can't take to long.