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their nightly builds have always been available and stable enough for normal use.

by catch23 17y ago

boundlessdreamz 17y ago
A comprehensive review of google chrome for mac by me can be found at http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-mac-review/375/ http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-mac-review/375/ [ I used one of the latest nightly builds]
- icefox 17y ago
  "Print has been recently enabled on the mac builds. " I like how you say it as if it was temporarily disabled because it had a bug or something when in reality it wasn't implemented.
  - boundlessdreamz 17y ago
    It was indeed temporarily disabled. From the horse's mouth http://twitter.com/mikepinkerton/status/4906327366 http://twitter.com/mikepinkerton/status/4906327366 (He is a chrome developer) Of course it was implemented just before that :)
cookiecaper 17y ago
I've been using the nightlies on Linux the last few weeks and have had very few problems. Much more stable than Firefox right now due to a packaging error by Arch.
- maxer 17y ago
  Im waiting for the full release- have you tried chromium- is it worth it?
  - bretthoerner 17y ago
    > have you tried chromium That's what he was talking about.
  - cookiecaper 17y ago
    Chromium is the development branch's name; official "Google Chrome" releases are just snapshots of this project perhaps with additional branding installed. That's how I understand it, anyway. So yes, I've been using Chromium the whole time. I think it is worth it. It performs much, much better than even the nightly builds of Firefox. The interface is also exceedingly faster than Firefox's interface (moving tabs around, etc.), and this makes it much more pleasant to use. I switched because Firefox was crashing incessantly because Arch linked it against an incompatible (newer) version of SQLite. When Chromium crashes, just the tab goes down. This is so nice. I haven't experienced much crashing though. The only problems I've had were a one-time bug that snuck into the build where it wouldn't special-case your keystrokes in a text box so it would read out shortcuts while you were typing (meaning backspace made the page go back) but this is expected and it was fixed in the next build (which I downloaded immediately, naturally) and problems with Flash. In the build I'm using now, Flash behavior is erratic; sometimes the buttons will work on YouTube and sometimes they won't. Zoomify's buttons never seem to work. Also, occasionally a video will lose sync with its audio and start playing about five seconds before the audio kicks in. As such, if I want to watch something on YouTube, I often find myself using Firefox to do so. If you're a big YouTube or Flash user you might be too annoyed at this to switch. Otherwise, I heartily recommend it.
    - bobbyi 17y ago
      Chromium is the 100% open source version of Chrome. The branding (including logo) and license is the distinction.
- jsrn 17y ago
  Apart from Chromium, there are also Chrome .deb packages: 32 bit: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_i386_deb http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab... 64 bit: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_amd64_deb http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab... I've used the 32 bit package on Ubuntu (9.10 beta) and Debian testing the last weeks, no problems so far.
the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I will keep using Chromium (and manual updates if necessary) until Google releases an official beta. I do not why but I trust more in the developers in Chromiun that in Google itself.

their nightly builds have always been available and stable enough for normal use.

by catch23 17y ago

their nightly builds have always been available and stable enough for normal use.

A comprehensive review of google chrome for mac by me can be found at http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-mac-review/375/ http://www.manu-j.com/blog/google-chrome-mac-review/375/ [ I used one of the latest nightly builds]

icefox 17y ago
"Print has been recently enabled on the mac builds. " I like how you say it as if it was temporarily disabled because it had a bug or something when in reality it wasn't implemented.
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago
  It was indeed temporarily disabled. From the horse's mouth http://twitter.com/mikepinkerton/status/4906327366 http://twitter.com/mikepinkerton/status/4906327366 (He is a chrome developer) Of course it was implemented just before that :)

cookiecaper 17y ago

I've been using the nightlies on Linux the last few weeks and have had very few problems. Much more stable than Firefox right now due to a packaging error by Arch.

maxer 17y ago
Im waiting for the full release- have you tried chromium- is it worth it?
- bretthoerner 17y ago
  > have you tried chromium That's what he was talking about.
- cookiecaper 17y ago
  Chromium is the development branch's name; official "Google Chrome" releases are just snapshots of this project perhaps with additional branding installed. That's how I understand it, anyway. So yes, I've been using Chromium the whole time. I think it is worth it. It performs much, much better than even the nightly builds of Firefox. The interface is also exceedingly faster than Firefox's interface (moving tabs around, etc.), and this makes it much more pleasant to use. I switched because Firefox was crashing incessantly because Arch linked it against an incompatible (newer) version of SQLite. When Chromium crashes, just the tab goes down. This is so nice. I haven't experienced much crashing though. The only problems I've had were a one-time bug that snuck into the build where it wouldn't special-case your keystrokes in a text box so it would read out shortcuts while you were typing (meaning backspace made the page go back) but this is expected and it was fixed in the next build (which I downloaded immediately, naturally) and problems with Flash. In the build I'm using now, Flash behavior is erratic; sometimes the buttons will work on YouTube and sometimes they won't. Zoomify's buttons never seem to work. Also, occasionally a video will lose sync with its audio and start playing about five seconds before the audio kicks in. As such, if I want to watch something on YouTube, I often find myself using Firefox to do so. If you're a big YouTube or Flash user you might be too annoyed at this to switch. Otherwise, I heartily recommend it.
  - bobbyi 17y ago
    Chromium is the 100% open source version of Chrome. The branding (including logo) and license is the distinction.
jsrn 17y ago
Apart from Chromium, there are also Chrome .deb packages: 32 bit: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_i386_deb http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab... 64 bit: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstable_amd64_deb http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=unstab... I've used the 32 bit package on Ubuntu (9.10 beta) and Debian testing the last weeks, no problems so far.

the_real_r2d2 17y ago

I will keep using Chromium (and manual updates if necessary) until Google releases an official beta. I do not why but I trust more in the developers in Chromiun that in Google itself.