No Dev update this week
Friday, May 8, 2009 | 21:23
[Edit, 11 May 2009: Change 'bandwidth' to 'test capacity'. Sometimes the colloquial jargon we use at work translates imprecisely for a public audience.]We were not able to issue a Dev channel release this week. Our test team did a great job in qualifying two Stable udpates and a Beta update this week, and we just didn't have the test capacity to push a Dev channel release.
We'll get an update out early next week. Stay tuned for some exciting new features we hope to land in the Dev channel.
Mark Larson
Google Chrome Program Manager
28 comments:
Mehdi said...
Cool.
12:56 AM, May 09, 2009
秋蟬 said...
Keep going. We are waiting for Mac/Linux version !! XD
1:09 AM, May 09, 2009
Semyer said...
Waiting ...
3:01 AM, May 09, 2009
Dani asqui said...
Just out of interest, how big is your development team?
4:08 AM, May 09, 2009
krtulmay said...
Take a look at the Chromium project members:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/people
6:40 AM, May 09, 2009
Joelg88 said...
Well I use the Chromium builds which get updated multiple times a day. But yea. The Devs did do a lot of work with all the updates that were released this week. Good Job guys.
7:52 AM, May 09, 2009
Dennis Wu said...
Good work guys! A stable AND a beta update in a week, impressive. And lets also not forget the new TV ads supposedly to be released today. Good job! Keep it up!
9:33 AM, May 09, 2009
Diego said...
Great! can't wait ^^
11:16 AM, May 09, 2009
SHAWN said...
Looking forward to it...
BTW, 2.0.177.1 has been rock solid with great features and is fast, fast, fast...
12:05 PM, May 09, 2009
San said...
It would be nice if you guys can create a google calendar listing all the dates for different releases.
12:10 PM, May 09, 2009
Blewby said...
Good Job Guy's...I converted many over to Chrome..All of which are impressed!
I would like to see the print selection available in a future (asap) release!
Thanks again
12:37 PM, May 09, 2009
Arkadiusz said...
"exciting new features"? addons I suppose! ;)
2:53 PM, May 10, 2009
Chris L. Carnakis, Esq. said...
What wouldn't I give for a couple of those "exciting new features" to include a completely revamped Download Manager and Bookmark Manager both akin to Firefox's.
As part of a revamped Download Manager, I still also really, really want Google Chrome to open certain downloads "on the fly" (or, to the temp folder) just like many of the other browsers open these downloads.
I actually just went back to the Google Chrome Beta because I've simply given up hope in seeing the abovementioned desired features anytime soon on the Dev Channel. Not to mention, I want more stability.
Regarding one of the potentially new features being add-on support, I totally understand the huge interest in it but am far more interested in the abovementioned features. Moreover, I have this feeling that add-ons/extensions will end up slowing down and/or weighing down Chrome. I sincerely hope that I am wrong about this feeling.
I absolutely love Chrome for the following reasons: speed, simplicity, security and stability (my "Four S's"). I hope Google continues to enhance each and every one of these fine aspects of Chrome!
3:31 PM, May 10, 2009
Mohamed Mansour said...
According to Chromium:
Customized Colour Themes (close to done)
More Extensions (more and more)
New Omnibox (pretty)
+++
@krtulmay: that list of chromium developers is a bit high :) Many users have more than one account and lots of other accounts (bots, automations, etc)
@Arkadiusz: Addons is complete :) They are just rolling out the APIs, Some people did some addons (Extensions)
@秋蟬: You can download .deb packages for linux and see how the development is going, same thing applies for mac! Its going smooth.
10:39 PM, May 10, 2009
Apicio said...
Well, you're just great! :)
I love Chrome and I can't wait for this new features !
Oh well, and you're VERY, VERY fast. ;)
6:49 AM, May 11, 2009
Akram said...
since yet very good going.
Akram
8:30 AM, May 11, 2009
Dennis Martin said...
Linux & Extensions support. That's what I want.
9:38 AM, May 11, 2009
XDS said...
Why not use the torrents to push bleeding edge releases ?
12:19 PM, May 11, 2009
Archkittens said...
Because publishing torrents is like asking for the RIAA to sue the grandmothers and children of Chrome users...
In seriousness though, google probably would shy away from using distributed publishing strategies like that when they already have datacenter-in-a-box's at the end of every strand of darkfibre they could get their hands on. There's just no way to control the user experience or speed of a download, and they can't yank it as easily when it's time for the next release.
Using bittorrent technology like that without considering those things is the kind of pandering to the audience that you'd expect from a company with a less pragmatic approach to user experience.
3:10 PM, May 11, 2009
Locke said...
lol, I like that edit
"[Edit, 11 May 2009: Change 'bandwidth' to 'test capacity'. Sometimes the colloquial jargon we use at work translates imprecisely for a public audience.]"
Some how I didn't think google would have had a problem with 'bandwidth'.
7:36 PM, May 11, 2009
MumJas said...
Its been 12 days in May and no updates yet. I am disappointed :(
10:12 PM, May 11, 2009
Locke said...
They were busy last week pushing some major updates to the stable and beta channels (over 200 changes) and weren't able to push a update to dev. If everything goes well we should see a update today, but if not remember the old adage: "Patience is a virtue." :P
4:31 AM, May 12, 2009
mralexlee said...
all i want from google chrome is for it to be super speedy during start up and use as little of ram as possible. I ditched firefox because it got slow. so please... whatever you do, keep google chrome speedy and neat.
Thats all i ask of google chrome
1:08 PM, May 12, 2009
Aviramof said...
didn't anyone noticed the fact that the previous version was 2.0.177.1 while this one is 2.0.172.23 meanin 172 vs 177 meaning that the updater recognize 177 as newer then 172 and there for when i try to install 172 it doesn't work and if i uninstall 177and install 172 the updater is saying that there is a newer version(177)and by the way your feedback page have a problem with IE8 it doesn't work so well so please fix all this problem:)
2:38 PM, May 12, 2009
Fabio Turati said...
Aviramof, 2.0.172.23 is a beta channel release, 2.0.177.1 ia a dev channel release. On the dev channel there are more "advanced" versions, so it's perfectly normal.
5:21 PM, May 12, 2009
Aviramof said...
i get that but if one have 177 installed he can't install 172 without uninstalling 177 and even then the browser show that there is an update at least if your on the dev channel so please think about it when you release new versions.
8:26 PM, May 12, 2009
Kwok said...
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/getting-involved/dev-channel
Read the last paragraph.
1:03 AM, May 13, 2009
Primedeath said...
updates*
11:55 PM, May 17, 2009
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