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When the hell will we get a stable release of Chrome for Lion OS?

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Trinatek

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Jul 20, 2011
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I guess I'm not completely aware of how the release cycles have worked out in the past and though I realize the Dev channel for Google Chrome has been receiving a steady flow of updates, the OCD in me just needs a "stable" release.

Any ideas, clues, guesses?
 
I recently switched back to Safari (the two finger Back/Forward is a lot cleaner + double tap to zoom is nice on an 11in), but I was using the most recent Dev build of Chrome (14.0.835.29). It supports two finger Back/Forward and I didn't really have any problems with it.
 
Hm.. so should I go for the Developer's build or Canary then I wonder? Also, is there any way to sync all the different releases (stable, dev & canary) in terms of favorites, passwords, history, etc. ?
 
Trinatek said:
Hm.. so should I go for the Developer's build or Canary then I wonder? Also, is there any way to sync all the different releases (stable, dev & canary) in terms of favorites, passwords, history, etc. ?
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Yes the normal sync works for all. Also Canary runs beside public Chrome, it doesn't replace it.
 
iphonsteve4ajob said:
old-wiz said:
I have been running Google Chrome on Lion and have had zero problems.
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It's not really that I'm afraid I'll run into problems using Chrome, it just sucks that (from what I last heard) a lot of Lion's features and gestures aren't incorporated into Chrome quite yet.

Safari's performance sucks, but you have to admit that the transitions and smooth-nature of the browser is pretty aesthetically pleasing.
 
Perhaps, I should have surrounded stable with quotes in the thread title: "stable"

The point of this thread was never meant to question how stability of Chrome as a browser, but was aimed more-so at the various builds & release channels and the lack of Lion-specific support in the "stable" build.
 
Trinatek said:
Perhaps, I should have surrounded stable with quotes in the thread title: "stable"

The point of this thread was never meant to question how stability of Chrome as a browser, but was aimed more-so at the various builds & release channels and the lack of Lion-specific support in the "stable" build.
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Only thing I find Chrome lacking is the page foward/backwards swipe feature.
 
For those that want to use the standard Chrome release, but would also like the two finger swipe forward/back gesture functionality:

Download "Better Touch Tool" (free): http://www.boastr.de/

You can setup system wide or application specific gestures for all of Apple's touch devices. Bind the forward (Cmd+Right Arrow) and back (Cmd+Left Arrow) keyboard shortcuts to the two finger swipe right and left gestures respectively.
 
I had the error 12 issue a week or two ago. I had just started using Chrome again after not using it for several months. I tried deleting the app, reinstalling, and even switching which build I was using, all to no avail. I finally had to remove the app and remove every file I could find that was part of the app (I think there was the plist file, application support stuff, etc..) Once I did that and then reinstalled, the error disappeared and it updates correctly again.
 
SumoHamster said:
I had the error 12 issue a week or two ago. I had just started using Chrome again after not using it for several months. I tried deleting the app, reinstalling, and even switching which build I was using, all to no avail. I finally had to remove the app and remove every file I could find that was part of the app (I think there was the plist file, application support stuff, etc..) Once I did that and then reinstalled, the error disappeared and it updates correctly again.
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To assist with "fully" removing an application and related files, try the free program AppCleaner: http://www.freemacsoft.net/
 
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