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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/ [ I used one of the latest nightly builds]

"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.

It was indeed temporarily disabled. From the horse's mouth http://twitter.com/mikepinkerton/status/4906327366 (He is a chrome developer) Of course it was implemented just before that :)

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.

Im waiting for the full release- have you tried chromium- is it worth it?

> have you tried chromium

That's what he was talking about.

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.

Chromium is the 100% open source version of Chrome. The branding (including logo) and license is the distinction.

Apart from Chromium, there are also Chrome .deb packages:

32 bit: 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=unstab...

I've used the 32 bit package on Ubuntu (9.10 beta) and Debian testing the last weeks, no problems so far.

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.

Glad they finally added the "backspace makes you go back a page" keyboard shortcut. That was my biggest problem with the Chromium nightlies and the Alpha...

Any word on when Chrome will support password managers? It's less than useful to me until then...

Looks like it's using Keychain, reading passwords I saved in Safari too.

I'm not using Keychain, though, but 1Password...

Safari doesn't really "support" 1Password. They had to hack their way. Ask the 1Password guy when he'll support Chrome.

Lastpass is already there: http://blog.lastpass.com/2009/10/lastpass-for-google-chrome-.... Though it crashes instantly for me.

I already have (asked them) :-P

http://twitter.com/swombat/status/4965038124

I'm fairly certain there was a Google Chrome branded developer release available a while ago, outside the chromium daily builds.

It was quickly surpassed feature and stability wise by the daily builds and somewhat difficult to find on the chromium site.

The Developer Channel version of Chrome is updated (while it is running, without a restart) every week or so, from previous Chromium builds. You might not even notice it happen.

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-ma...

That's a link to nightly Chromium mac builds. I've been using that for the past several months.

Its looking pretty good, the only thing I can see missing is that there is no per tab process viewer. I will do a complete switch over to chrome once 1passwd and an adblocker are ported over.

For the latter: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/adblo...

Best I can find for the former: http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/lastp...

Hope there will be customizable search from the address bar, like in Opera, or with Keywurl in Safari.

I looked into the extensions API, but didn't find any hooks.

Nightly builds of Chromium have had that implemented for about a month now.

epi0Bauqu's DuckDuckGo is available as one of the search engine options.

Chrome will automatically add a site's search to the list of available engines when you visit it.

So you'd have to visit DuckDuckGo first to have it available.

thank you for letting me know. good catch.

I can't use this until Live HTTP Headers/Tamper Data && Firebug ports are available. Until then I await with bated breath.

Chrome's Developer Tools does a pretty good Firebug impersonation. It's certainly prettier.

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