Despite what you might be reading on the social networks today about the Mac and Linux versions of Chrome, these are early, unstable versions, not ready for the masses. Google late Thursday released what it is calling “developer-only” versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux, taking the first step in its eight-month-old promise to do so.
Google then slapped the kind of warning guar-un-teed to elicit reverse-psychology behavior and mass downloading of the browser. It told the world that the Mac and Linux versions are rough and unstable: “We have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!” said Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg, a pair of Chrome product managers, in an entry to a Google blog. “Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.”
Google is aware of a whole bunch of bugs in the browser, as well as features that will one day materialize but are not there yet. These include lack of support for Adobe Flash and no way to retrieve bookmarks once you’ve set them, reports Computerworld.
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