Google Upgrades Chrome To Beta For OS X, Linux

wkurzius writes with this nugget from Mac Rumors: "As anticipated, Google has finally released an official beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac. The initial beta version, termed Build 4.0.249.30, requires Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, and is only compatible with Intel-based Macs." And hierofalcon writes with word that Chrome has also been made available as an official Linux Beta.

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Re:Adblock

[clone53421]

... and per-tab processes for Firefox are also currently in development.

I don’t think I’ll be switching any time soon, since I see per-tab processes as a nicety and adblock as a necessity.

Beware Google's penchant for auto-updates...

[courcoul]

Beware that the first time you run Chrome, it will install their Keystone auto-update facility, with which Google feels free to update whatever they want, whenever they want and however they want. Even when you're not running the browser, as the Keystone agent will launch itself automatically at system boot.

You have been warned.

Re:Beware Google's penchant for auto-updates...

[psocccer]

The OP might not be completely wrong, according to a dpkg-query -L google-chrome-beta it installs some stuff to /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome which apparently adds an extra source to your apt sources then updates google chrome based on some settings in your /etc/default/google-chrome. It also adds the source to /etc/apt/sources.list.d. Seems a bit invasive to me.

Re:Beware Google's penchant for auto-updates...

[clone53421]

The complaint is that it is a separate updater process, it runs itself at boot time, and it is difficult to prevent it from doing so.

Firefox, by comparison, updates itself when it starts up, and periodically checks for updates while you are online.