Jun 9, 2011

Google Chrome Canary

I got sometime, so I tried this new Google Chrome variant. Installation is a breeze, just download and follow instructions. I login my Google Account, and walaaa. All my extensions and plugins are loaded. Everything is the same, my tools, and settings.

First load, we'll have to configure some defaults. Here's something that interests me, we can now specify default pages to be open when Chrome boots.
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Second, we got instant search ! Right on the omnibox.
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And, you might wanna turn this off. I don't see the point, unless you want Google to track more things you do after you close your browser. I suspect this is for the web services that updates your chrome and extensions.
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Okay, that's all the surprise I found for my first minute. I don't have time to play with the rest, but the options and menus are very similar to Chromium, an open source version of Google Chrome which I used with my Linux machine. And according to Paul Irish, seems like Canary also features some advance development tools that are not available to the mainstream version yet. As a web developer, this was one of the main reason for me to try Canary.

That's all folks. =)