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Google Canary passes Chromium -- is Chrome development going the way of Android?
When Google Chrome first arrived, those who wanted to experience the most up-to-date version downloaded the most recent Chromium snapshot. The open-source builds were always piping-hot and received new features before they arrived in Chrome's Dev channel. Now, however, the tables are turning.
With the arrival of Chrome Canary on Windows, Google began pushing their own open/closed source (ajar source?), bleeding-edge version. New Canary updates still don't arrive as often as Chromium builds, of course -- the buildbot generates as many as one per hour. Interestingly enough, however, Canary currently now sits at a higher version number than Chromium -- 9.0.574.0 to Chromium's 9.0.573.0.
If you're running both browsers side-by-side, you'll also notice some differences on the about:flags page. Chromium is missing both Native Client and speculative pre-rendering -- a new experimental feature in Canary which attempts to speed browsing by predicting which links you're likely to follow and loading pages in the background. The fact that actual features are being bolted on to Canary first is more of an indication of a change in direction than the version number, which Google has asked us to ignore anyway.
The question, then, is whether Chrome is going to go the way of Android. Most Android development happens behind closed doors, with Google choosing to make the source code available when they feel a new release is ready to go. That's a stark contrast to the way Chromium development had been running, but could the fact that Canary is a step ahead indicate that Chrome is moving in the same direction?
We'll have to wait and see, but with Chrome OS devices due out soon, it's certainly a possibility.
With the arrival of Chrome Canary on Windows, Google began pushing their own open/closed source (ajar source?), bleeding-edge version. New Canary updates still don't arrive as often as Chromium builds, of course -- the buildbot generates as many as one per hour. Interestingly enough, however, Canary currently now sits at a higher version number than Chromium -- 9.0.574.0 to Chromium's 9.0.573.0.
If you're running both browsers side-by-side, you'll also notice some differences on the about:flags page. Chromium is missing both Native Client and speculative pre-rendering -- a new experimental feature in Canary which attempts to speed browsing by predicting which links you're likely to follow and loading pages in the background. The fact that actual features are being bolted on to Canary first is more of an indication of a change in direction than the version number, which Google has asked us to ignore anyway.
The question, then, is whether Chrome is going to go the way of Android. Most Android development happens behind closed doors, with Google choosing to make the source code available when they feel a new release is ready to go. That's a stark contrast to the way Chromium development had been running, but could the fact that Canary is a step ahead indicate that Chrome is moving in the same direction?
We'll have to wait and see, but with Chrome OS devices due out soon, it's certainly a possibility.
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Subscribe to commentschromestoryNov 7th 2010 11:50AM
Chromium linux builds are still updated regularly. 9.0.575.0 (65322) Ubuntu 10.10 as of now .. that means its one version ahead of canary and windows chromium build. I did see native client and page prerendering on ubuntu choromium build three days back ..
One reason may be Google is using a cutomized version of ubuntu inhouse ( as far as I know )
and dogfooding chrome os of course ..
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lobotomies4freeNov 7th 2010 1:37PM
Chromium Mac builds have speculative pre-rendering in the flags options
Ganoes ParanNov 7th 2010 3:35PM
You might want to update this post since chromium builds are ahead now once again at the date of this post.
Here's the current chromium version as of this post: http://imgur.com/Hvvge.png
And here's the current canary version as of this post:
http://imgur.com/nW1Qd.png
And if you're curious, the chromium version has the same new "flags" as canary
Sebastian AnthonyNov 7th 2010 4:36PM
Cool -- will get Lee to take a look.
Ganoes ParanNov 7th 2010 4:56PM
kk good to know ^^. I'm guessing that at the time of lee's post Chromium was in the process of updating to a new version. Just my guess but this happened before (Was monitoring chromium waterfall while using canary. canary was a higher build but chromium was trying to update to something new. had like 12 failed xp builds in a row. when a stable build finally got released, it was higher version number than canary)
michelNov 7th 2010 9:45PM
What in the world is the difference between these two browsers? Why in the world would anyone want to update their software so often?
Ganoes ParanNov 7th 2010 10:35PM
From what I known about the two browsers.
Canary, or Chrome SxS, is basically an offshoot of Chrome's 3 regular builds that are official release, beta, and dev.
Canary runs seperately from the other three chrome builds. Basically you can install it side by side and run it seperately, just as if running firefox and chrome at the same time.
Though Canary is kinda like a bleeding edge browser for chrome. somewhat like a suicide browser to see if a new feature works. see here for more information: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/23/google-chrome-canary-run-two-channels-at-once/
Now Chromium is the open source version of chrome. It is also a "bleeding edge" browser for chrome and tends to be quite unstable on some builds. You can think of Canary as the closed-source bleeding edge browser and Chromium as the open-source bleeding edge browser. I believe, but not certain, that Chromium runs standalone just like canary does in respect to the Google Chrome.
I don't know how often canary updates but chromium updates atleast 1 times per hour. Open-source people just contribute small code changes or additional features to the overall source and the source compiles and releases. basically that's how it works. You can see each Chromium update and update notes here: http://build.chromium.org/p/chromium/console
Hope that answers your question :P
MxxConNov 8th 2010 12:23AM
take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_%28web_browser%29#Differences_between_Chromium_and_Google_Chrome
pristy.siteNov 8th 2010 12:50AM
Yeah, baby, yeah!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2HBdRCroks