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Canary Builds are only available for Windows user for the moment, but Google says Linux and Mac versions will be made available if there is interest in them. In total, Google Chrome now comes in five flavours based on their stability, Stable, Beta, Dev, Canary Builds and Chromium.ĭue to their experimental nature, Canary Builds can be installed alongside any of the regular versions of Google Chrome. Canary Builds will be somewhere between Chromium and the dev channel releases. It must be noted that Google has an even more experimental branch the Chromium builds which are released several times a day, where the active development is done.
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This won’t be the case with Canary Builds as they will be released more often and normally without any manual testing. Any long time dev channel user will tell you that, even though the builds are buggy at times, overall, they’re stable enough for regular use. While the dev channel builds are considered experimental, they go through a rather rigorous testing phase. These features need to be tested and this is where the Canary Builds come in. Google is in the process of preparing for a beta build right now, with the latest Google Chrome 6.0.472.xx the likely candidate.īut, even as part of the team is ironing out the bugs, the rest of the developers are plowing ahead building new features. Regularly, when the team is ready to move the dev branch builds to the beta channel, it starts releasing bug fixing updates until Chrome reaches a stable enough stage. This meant that the testing releases, the beta and the dev channel builds, would also have to come faster. Stable releases are about three months apart and, while this is several time faster than most browsers or any other app out there, Google believed it could do better, two times better in fact, so it’s now pushing for about one and a half months between major stable versions.

Recently, the Google Chrome team decided that the release cycle was somewhat slow.
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We plan to update the Canary Build more frequently than the Dev channel, with riskier changes, and usually without a human being ever verifying that it works, so the Canary Build is only for users who want to help test Google Chrome and are comfortable using a highly unstable browser that will often break entirely,” Henry Bridge, product manager for Google Chrome, wrote. “ few days ago, we released a new experimental version of Google Chrome called Google Chrome Canary Build. The first Canary Builds were made available a little over a week ago, but Google is only now making the formal announcement.


Intended for early, early adopters, Google Chrome Canary Builds are more experimental than the dev channel releases. It’s difficult to make sense of Google Chrome’s different releases as it is, but the development team is now adding another build to the mix.
