Google Chrome Canary is Finally Available for Apple's Mac Users!

What the heck is Chrome Canary?

Fair question ;-). It goes back into the history actually. Back in the day when gold miners used to carry canaries with them as a way of "measuring" poisonous gas leaks which is still one of the main risks concerning mining in general. Anyhow, for some reason if there's a poisonous gas leak, then the poor bird would die before anything happen to the humans... so the miners used the bird as a way of evaluating danger, in a way.

A "real" Canary!...

That's exactly what you get with the Google Chrome Canary version. Google or the Chrome developers use the Canary edition as a way evaluating the stability of the browser before officially releasing it. This is the first time it has been released for Mac OSX users!, and anyone who wants to download the "Canary" version should be aware of the fact that, it's actually could be unstable than the official daily developer builds as well.

Yellowish logo ....

But if you're interested in "testing" or getting the cutting-edge technologies in web browsing... and a fan of Chrome, then Mac geeks :P, this is your moment!.

But...

Again remember, these builds aren't even tested manually before releasing, although not all the time but there could be bugs or especially major security related bugs!. So before downloading it, please take those things to account.

Anyhow, unless you're going to use the Chrome Canary in Mac OSX to store your passwords or log-in information, only going to "browse the web" then those concerns may be slightly lower. Also, once installed the Chrome Canary will get automatic updates as well. So if the developers discover new bugs and fix them... then the browser will fetch them automatically.

So before giving it a try... make sure you understand the risks and good luck.

Install Chrome 11 Beta in Ubuntu 10.10/11.04

Although I'm not a big fan of the feeling of simplicity the Chrome delivers (other than the clean GUI), Google treats you like a 7-year-old with that lack of menus, options etc. But the rest assured, it is FAST!, which is one of the main reasons behind its reputation (+ the GUI too actually).

Anyway, if you run Ubuntu 10.10 or 11.04 then you could try the latest beta which is the version 11 because this beta brings a lot of changes such as  HTML5 speech to text Recognition, faster web page rendering, a new icon for the browser, better use of your GPU thus reducing a lot of CPU which makes it more faster and takes less system resources... are just a few to mention.

Open your terminal and issue the below command to install Chrome 11beta in Ubuntu...

sudo echo “deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo -s
wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Latest Chrome Beta Receives Easy Speech toText Feature (Developers)

Although there are several applications that can be used to convert convert text files into speeches, but if you don't have an especial program or its addon installed for your web browser, then you can't read HTML files while browsing web sites.

Or, how about the other way around called speech to text. If you're a web master or a developer then you can use a technology called HTML Speech input API that comes with the latest Chrome beta channels, which lets you speak to your web browser via a microphone and Chrome will automatically convert speeches into text!.

Or just forget about being a developer, but what this means to us as users is that, in the near future, we'll be just using web based applications that are accessed directly through your web browser which would easily convert our little "speeches" into text in no time!. The community behind this technology will make it a standard thus giving the ability to web designers to create web pages that are easily "controlled" via voice commands which can be a huge time saver from the user point of view.

So, in the near future, we'll be seeing a more personalized and user friendly web sites if this goes well :D, pretty cool stuff ha... :).

Is Chrome Web Browser Better Optimized for Ad-sense?

Strangest thing! but when I was browsing some of my sites this has happened to me not once, twice but many times. The adsense ads that show up on my site when I browse it using Firefox browser are a bit different from the ones that show when using the Chrome. Then again as advertisers and their bidding changes there are always fluctuations but I've seen this happening way over and think it's fair enough to ask the above question.

Also I have usually 300x250 add below title and below the post using different channel settings and again when using firefox sometimes the the 8 ads that show (4 for each 300x250 unit) are very similar or they both shows the the same ads. But when browsing the same URL with the Chrome web browser the ads seems to have better variations.

Now this may be due to some sort of java script code scramble on my firefox but then I reinstalled both java and firefox but things didn't change much to doubt that. Anyway, if anyone reads this post and have had similar issues, come on don't be lazy now, put some comments. Let's get social (yikes) and talk about it.

Nonetheless as publishers if the Chrome is going to dominate the web browser market "we" (love ya all readers too ....) will benefit from this. So by introducing the Chrome can't it be Google trying to "optimize" and control the web the way they want??? now that according to my "genius" brain is an important question. Or is it not? what you guys think??.