Comments on: Chrome for OS X, Where Are You?

By: francisz

francisz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:15:12 +0000

You never noticed the updates happen because they are silent and run in the “background”, never disturbing your browsing!!! But if you pay attention to the Version numbers, they’ll actually change weekly or so… So you’re always updated!

By: McCrackhead

McCrackhead — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:01:51 +0000

I agree with Harry.. sorry

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:28:25 +0000

Peter, can you post a URL for this? And are you talking about the Dev builds of Chrome or Chromium? I would expect Chromium to be moving slightly faster than just Chrome…

I’ve been using the dev build of Chrome for a couple of weeks now. I’ve never been prompted to update and I’ve never noticed it updating, so as far as I can tell — it hasn’t updated yet. I’ve tried the menu item Chrome -> About Google Chrome, but it always says I’m up to date.

So far, my biggest problems with this build are:
1. No bookmark import/management
2. Tab behavior: one of MY favorite things about Chrome on Windows (and something which I believe is unique to Chrome as a browser on Windows) is how when you have many tabs open and close one, the tabs don’t auto-resize until you move your mouse off the tab bar. This is a great feature for me, because I tend to group my tabs by subject, and once I’m done with a given subject, I’ll close all the related tabs. So it’s nice to be able to click-click-click-click and close all the tabs instead of click-movemouse-click-movemouse-click… you get the idea.

By: Peter Kasting

Peter Kasting — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:36:34 +0000

The Dev channel release of Google Chrome for the Mac auto-updates just like the Windows version, so there’s no need to use nightly builds (which may be broken in arbitrary ways) to stay up-to-date with progress on the Mac.

(I am a Chromium developer.)