Google Chrome has always had multiple channels for it's browser. It has the stable channel, the browser that should never break; the beta channel, the kind-of unstable browser that gets some features the stable doesn't get; the dev channel, the very unstable, near-bleeding-edge browser that gets the early, unfinished features; and finally the Canary build. This build is literally the bleeding edge. It gets features that no one will see in quite a while and don't work very well at all.Up till now, the Canary build has only been available to Windows users. Mac OS X and Linux users have been kept in the dark and have been drooling for the chance to get their hands on this channel. But today, some news makes it look like Canary is making it's way over to OS X very soon. As in, the next few days.
Although the stable is in version 11 (so is Beta, I believe), dev channel is currently at version 12, and Canary is about to hit version 13 - that's the version that will hit Mac OS X. A developer who tracks the project very closely, Peter Beverloo, said the following:
"While it has not been released yet, Google does seem to be ready to release Google Chrome Canary for Mac OS X systems. The browser cannot be made the default browser through the preferences and the release monitor says that the latest version was released today, using the same revision as Windows’ Canary."No one really knows when it'll hit, but it's definitely coming soon. I really hope they bring this build over to Linux; I've been looking forward to running the Canary build on Ubuntu for quite a while now!
Source: TechCrunch
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