Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps

Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by cryptoz on Thursday July 07, 2011 @04:05PM (#2740072)

It's not like Google advertises the Chrome version number, though. In fact, they seem to try to hide which version you're on, so I don't think that this is a marketing gimmick at all. Chrome's release schedule has a lot more to do with the changing nature of user software and the Internet - version numbers shouldn't matter, all users should aim to run the latest version, and updates should come quickly.

These are all admirable goals and Chrome's versioning is just a side effect of newer software development methods. Chrome is perhaps on track to win the browser wars because it's the best browser and gets new features the fastest; IE's release cycle is still humiliatingly slow.

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by runn1ng on Thursday July 07, 2011 @04:24PM (#2740148)

I, personally, consider myself more "tech" person - and I don't have the slightest clue which Chrome version I am using. If you said the newest Chrome is Chrome 7, I would have to agree.

One part is, I guess, the seamless upgrading (when I use Firefox, I usually click on "upgrade next time", because I am always doing something TOTALLY important that can't wait). Other part is that the extensions don't break every new version and the UI looks completely the same (unlike for, let's say, Opera, which changes UI all the time). I don't know what browser version am I using, and I don't care.

Really, I hope this will become standard in OS, too.

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by aboodman on Thursday July 07, 2011 @06:53PM (#2740612)

As of this writing, the "newest" chrome is either 12, 13, or 14, depending on which stability channel you're on.

Woo!

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by brudgers on Thursday July 07, 2011 @04:56PM (#2740277)

>"IE's release cycle is still humiliatingly slow."

Or reassuringly stable if you are supporting an enterprise. Given Google's planned abandonment of support for older browser versions in their applications, there may be a ready market for a more stable browser platform.

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by pavel_lishin on Thursday July 07, 2011 @05:29PM (#2740410)

If you need stability, don't upgrade. It's the choice of large corporations everywhere. :)

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by shadowfox on Thursday July 07, 2011 @08:03PM (#2740769)

Just curious. Is there a easy way to prevent Chrome from upgrading?

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by nl on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:08PM (#2741074)

Yes: http://www.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-upda...

If you are a admin for a large site, this is useful: http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer...

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by zeddez on Thursday July 07, 2011 @10:28PM (#2741113)

Yes. Use an Android device with Chrome. Most users are stuck with whatever came from the phone. iPhone far outperforms in terms of % upgrades.

http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...

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Re:Chrome: Playing the browser game for keeps by jmillikin on Friday July 08, 2011 @11:20AM (#2742786)

Chrome does not run on Android.

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