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Google Rolls Out Chrome 7

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bright-and-shiny dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released a new stable version of its internet browser, Chrome 7. The latest update is part of Google's promise in July to release a new stable version of Chrome about every six weeks. Chrome 7 comes with hundreds of bug fixes, an updated HTML5 parser, the File API, and directory upload via input tag. It is available in the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 'The main focus was the hundreds of bug fixes,' Jeff Chang, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post."

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  1. Every 6 weeks by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So by the time we reach the end of 2011, we'll be on Chrome 16???

    What's the point of all these frequent releases? Maybe I ought to give this browser a try... but Firefox and seaMonkey have served me well since I quit Mozilla Netscape, so I'm inclined not to change. ("If it ain't broke...")

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  2. Re:7.0? Really? by fermion · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I said this before and I will say this again. Google, just like MS, is playing the version game so they make an immature browser seem equal to other browser, at least to the unsophisticated portion of the customer base.

    This is not to say that Google is not catching up fast, just that they are focusing on version numbers in their add copies, while primarily fixing bugs in actuality.

    Compare this to firms that are actually trying to deliver a useful feature set to customers, rather than just focusing on metrics that have long been shown to be meaningless. Firefox is happy at 3.6 Safari is happy at 5. Opera, which may have been around longer than google itself, is only at 10.63. These are people who deliver useful browser.

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  3. Re:7.0? Really? by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But even if there was a Chrome X 10.whatever, the other browser Opera 11 will still "beat" them. ;-)

    And poor seaMokney is only on 2.
    That must be a lousy browser. ;-)

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    "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall