For all of you who don’t yet know, Google Chrome browser is the fastest growing browser today and is one of the best and my favorite. Other than its great extensions, features and w3 standardization, it has the best look and appearance. It’s very minimalistic and the main goal of Google Chrome is to show a web page as much other than the browser itself.

Google Chrome is open source browser based on Chromium Project and just like most open source projects, Google Chrome has a few cycles or channels of updates:

• Stable Channel
• Beta Channel
• Dev Channel

The last channel – Dev Channel is the most interesting. It is stable enough and is being updated about once a week. I’ve been using Dev channel for many months now. Just recently Google has added another channel that is being updated almost every day, aka Nightly Builds. It’s called Google Chrome Canary Build .

I’m still cautious to use the Canary Build for all my tasks but at first look it seems very stable and I might start using it more and more. What’s very convenient is that Google allows to sync all my bookmarks, settings, extensions with Google Apps cloud storage and if I do any changes on one Chrome or one computer, it will be applied to all my computers! So switching between chrome versions is a breeze.

Since I’m using Dev channel more, I didn’t notice the new updated theme that is coming soon, but it’s already available on the Canary Build.

Remember Google Chrome is all about providing a user more real estate of the web page and minimizing pixel by pixel how much Google Chrome is taking off your screen.

See the screenshots below and compare. The changes are small but very cool.

Google Chrome 6.0.472.11 dev

Google Chrome 6.0.480.0 canary build

Notice that Google Chrome Canary Build has also different logo – yellow

If you like Google Chrome and excited about the updates or maybe you are an update freak and have a Software Updates OCD, I will not torture you anymore and here you can get the latest versions of Google Chrome dev and canary builds:

Google Chrome Dev and other Channels

Google Chrome Canary Build (nightly build)

Enjoy and leave your comments below. I can’t wait to see critics and judgments. I’m talking to you Firefox lovers. I’ve been one of you before. Just try using Chrome for 1 week.

I am pro-Microsoft and would love to use IE9 maybe some day, but Google Chrome is a winner right now!

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