{"id":7747,"date":"2009-06-05T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2009-06-05T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T06:23:08","slug":"google-releases-dev-version-of-chrome-for-mac-and-linux-but-it-doesnt-want-you-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/05\/google-releases-dev-version-of-chrome-for-mac-and-linux-but-it-doesnt-want-you-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Releases Dev Version Of Chrome For Mac And Linux. But It Doesn\u2019t Want You To Use It."},"content":{"rendered":"
(published in techcrunch<\/a> by\u00a0Jason Kincaid<\/a>)<\/strong><\/h5>\n

\"mac_iconjpg\"Here\u2019s some bittersweet news for those of you eagerly awaiting Google\u2019s Chrome browser for Mac or Linux: tonight Google is publicly\u00a0releasing\"\"<\/a>developer versions of the Chrome browser for both operating systems, and anyone will be able to download them. Unfortunately you won\u2019t be able to ditch Safari or Firefox just yet \u2014 these builds are not close to stable, and you won\u2019t be able to use them on a day to day basis. But you\u2019ll still be able to put something in your Dock that says Chrome, so that\u2019s something, right?<\/p>\n

For those who haven\u2019t been paying close attention to the progress of Google\u2019s browser on platforms other than Windows, you\u2019ve actually been able to download builds of the open-source project behind Chrome, which is called\u00a0Chromium\"\"<\/a>, for quite a while. In our testing these builds have proven to be quite speedy, somewhat stable, but nowhere near ready for prime time \u2014 they don\u2019t yet support plugins (including Flash), and there are a number of options that you\u2019d expect out of a browser that simply aren\u2019t there yet.<\/p>\n

This developer version of Chrome is essentially a rebranded version of the Chromium project, and doesn\u2019t represent a much-improved new branch that Google has quietly been working on. It still doesn\u2019t support plugins, and there are still some other missing key features, like printing.<\/p>\n

My initial impression to tonight\u2019s news was that, while the stable version of Chrome might be a little ways away, tonight\u2019s release might indicate that we\u2019re at least\u00a0getting close<\/em>. Unfortunately, it still sounds like we have a while to wait (or at least, Google doesn\u2019t want to get our hopes up early). This is the first part of Google\u2019s three step\u00a0release channel\"\"<\/a>, which begins with the Developer version, continues to Beta, and finishes up with a build the company is comfortable deeming \u2018Stable\u2019. We\u2019re at step one.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s spokesman went as far as to say that the company doesn\u2019t want us to download this version of Chrome unless we\u2019re ready for frequent crashes and a generally not-so-great experience. But if you\u2019re looking to start testing the evolving browser under the name \u2018Chrome\u2019 rather than \u2018Chromium\u2019, then have at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(published in techcrunch by\u00a0Jason Kincaid) Here\u2019s some bittersweet news for those of you eagerly awaiting Google\u2019s Chrome browser for Mac or Linux: tonight Google is publicly\u00a0releasingdeveloper versions of the Chrome browser for both operating systems, and anyone will be able to download them. Unfortunately you won\u2019t be able to ditch Safari or Firefox just yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,5,6],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-news","tag-techcrunch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}