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Chrome canary vs. chrome dev4/16/2023 I definitely encourage you to use those browsers. Those preview releases are not linked to the stable release on your computers, so you can test things without worrying that a nasty bug will cancel your bookmarks or break your main browser experience. If you like testing the latest features that browsers will only get in a few months before anyone else, JavaScript or the last CSS or Web Platform API stuff, this is where you can find them. It’s just another tool at your disposal to do your work day after day. It’s not mandatory and you can definitely do your job on the stable releases of browsers, too. Using /Chrome Beta/, /Firefox Developer Edition/ and the betas of macOS (Apple follows its OS release cycle for Safari) provides a safer experience, since the canary/nightly releases can sometimes break. In short, those releases are put out there so developers and internal people at companies can try out the latest features which will later become part of the stable releases sent to the hundreds of millions of people using them.Ĭhanges in browsers can take months to be part of the stable release, so it makes sense that you, as a developer, feel the need to try out the new features as they are introduced, rather than using them when they are widely available.įor example today I used Canary to test the Intl.RelativeTimeFormat and Intl.ListFormat features coming to ES2019. Wikipedia defines a canary like “something which warns of the coming of greater danger or trouble”. The Google Canary name comes from those poor canaries used in coal mines. Using one of those versions, you are on the bleeding edge. Chrome has 4 release channels: /canary/ - /dev/ - /beta/ - /stable/.įirefox Nightly is the equivalent of Chrome Canary for Firefox (they have /nightly/ - /beta/ - /release/), while Safari has Safari Technology Preview. Via the unofficial Google Operating System blog.Chrome Canary is the version of Chrome that has the latest changes added by Google to their browser. For example, tab-to-search didn't work in my test on Canary.Ĭanary has a significant limitation besides just its availability only for Windows, though, as Chrome leader Darin Fisher asked on the mailing list: "One question: Why can't I make this be my default browser?" However there are apparently some differences. The current Canary build is 6.0.472.0, the same version number as the Chrome developer build. Under development is syn for passwords and some browsing history. Although it runs Linux under the hood, the applications run within the browser, one incarnation of the concept known as cloud computing.Īlthough Canary is installed in a separate area of a hard drive from what's already installed, it can behave similarly through Chrome's gradually expanding synchronization ability.Īt present, Chrome can sync bookmarks, preferences, themes, form data, and most recently, extensions. Google later this year plans to release a browser-based operating system called Chrome OS. With version 5, Chrome arrived in stable form for Mac OS X and Linux as well. The next major version of Google's browser, Chrome 6, likely will arrive in beta form soon since developers recently froze the code base to stabilize it.Ĭhrome has steadily gained usage share since its first beta release in September 2008. Stable versions have arrived roughly once a quarter, and Google wants to double that pace. While Chrome Canary could be updated as often as once a day, Google plans to release stable versions of Chrome more frequently as well. In other words, it's the canary in the coal mine-something that will indicate early signs of trouble. The data we get back from canary users-especially crash statistics-helps us find and fix regressions faster." Successful nightly builds," said Mark Larson, "I recommend it for anyone who wants to help test the latest Chrome features. Of bustage), and we're working on making it update as often as we have "The canary usually updates more frequently than the Dev channel (higher risk Perhaps more interesting to Chrome enthusiasts is that Google plans to update Canary more often than the developer release, new versions of which arrive roughly every two weeks. That lets developers test different versions more easily on the same computer, although Canary is available only for Windows at present. Google has released a fourth version of Chrome called Canary for those keen on the latest features but willing to put up with more bugs and crashes.Ĭhrome Canary installs alongside any of the three existing versions of Chrome-stable, beta, and developer, according to a mailing list message by Google programmer Huan Ren last week.
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