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Change Chrome’s channel to get beta features
VentureBeat — ... “Release early, release often,” that’s apparently the creed the Google Chrome team lives by, as it describes today on its blog. To that end, Google is taking a bit of a different approach when it comes to launching new features for its Chrome web browser: It’s splitting features up into three different channels, depending on what kind of user you are. ...

Google Chrome Update With Form Auto-Completion And More
Google Blogoscoped — ... an older version. If you want to try out the preview, you need to: Install Chrome if you haven’t already, then run Chrome’s channel switcher executable (Google suggests to make a backup first) Check the Developer channel option and save your settings Start Chrome and pick -> About Google Chrome, then hit the Update Now button Restart all Chrome windows [Via Google OS and the Chromium blog.] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Chrome Update With Form ...

Google Releases First Pre-Beta of Chrome 2.0
ReadWriteWeb — ... after Google first released its browser to the public. This new version (2.0.156.1) is only available in the developer channel, but it already points at where Google is planning to go with this next version of Chrome, which, besides many new features, also includes a new version of WebKit and Google's own implementation of the HTTP protocol. ...

HOW-TO: Tweak Chrome to get the newest features early
Tech Digest — ... - a 'Stable' one, for the general public. A 'Beta' one for interested parties, and a 'Developer' one, for those of you who like to be on the bleeding edge. It's very easy to switch - just download a little program (found here) and click the appropriate box. You don't even seem to need to restart the browser. I've just subscribed to the 'Beta' channel. So far, it hasn't crashed. Give it a try and let us know your experiences in the comments below. Chrome Dev Channel (via Chromium) Related posts: Happy Birthday, Google Chrome - 1.0 today | ...

Google tunes up Chrome development
Webware.com — ... in December. But while the label may be gone, the company wants to keep that eternal flame burning in "a never-ending Beta test and a continuous feedback loop" via things like automatic update channels: ...

Get The Snap Windows Function in Google 2.0
SolSie.com — While Google Chrome has come out its Beta status, development is still going on and if you want to experiment Chrome with some latest tweaks, Google will let you do so. Beside improvement on better CSS rendering, support for full page zoom, form auto-completion, etc. (Check out the release notes and the official announcement) The feature that caught my eyes is the “Snap Windows in half screen size” that Chrome 2.0 clearly mimics the same feature found on Windows 7. With the widescreen, a common thing that people do is ...

Google's Spam Cop Cracks Down on Chrome Complainers
Google Watch — Matt Cutts, who appears omnipresent online and rarely misses a chance to defend Google's honor, is at it again. I'm beginning to wonder if he isn't running a 20 percent time project in the metaphysics of good versus evil corporations when he isn't cracking down on Google search gamers and entertaining ideas on how to thwart Web spam. But seriously... Yesterday, Google's Chrome team issued Chrome developer build, 2.0.151.1, as detailed by Chrome engineer Mark Larson's blog post. Larson innocuously notes Google Chrome now has its ...

New beta version of Google Chrome released
SuperSite Blog — Google Chrome blog: Since we took the "beta" tag off Google Chrome in December, we've been updating two release channels: developer and stable. With our latest release, we're re-introducing the beta channel for some early feedback — and if you're reading the brand new Google Chrome blog, you are probably just the person to give it a try. The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost ...