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Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the ooh-shiny dept.

ddfall writes "Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux — the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms. Chrome 5.0.375.55 is available to download from google.com/chrome. Users who currently have Chrome installed can use the built-in update function."

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  1. Re:stable? by MiniMike · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's available for Windows. It can't legally say "stable".

  2. Re:Google is catching on fast by fermion · · Score: 0, Troll
    Kind of reminds me of IE. IE1-IE5 were released in a four year time period, mostly to play catchup to Netscape version 4. After that development all but stopped (relatively speaking) and 10 years later we only at IE 8.

    One hope that in a year or so when Chrome is at 9.0, even with the new release of MS they will stop release a major version every time they fix a bug. I don't think any of us want to have to say Chrome version 10,257 every day. Of course at that point they will likely drop the other numbers and we will just cycle through version 0-9 every year.

    An an up note, if they have flash and java and HTML 5 working, I will likely use it on Windows machines instead of IE. MS is so concerned with promoting their business structure that each update of IE becomes less useful.

    --
    "She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
  3. Re:Google is catching on fast by poetmatt · · Score: 0, Troll

    please. IE8 isn't about options. That's why bing is set as the default search engine.

    see? It makes your job easier!