14 DAY TRIAL // New releases of Google Chrome 9.0 and 8.0 are now available for download, as the Mountain View-based search giant is getting closer to releasing the next major iteration of its open source browser. Chrome 9.0.587.0 Dev and Chrome 8.0.552.208 Beta have been released to early adopters. Both are pre-release Builds of their respective versions and in this regard aimed for testing and not really for deployment into production.
Users unfamiliar with the risks and quirks associated with the Beta testing process are better off running the stable variant of Chrome, version 7.0.
“The Dev channel has been updated to 9.0.587.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame,” revealed Anthony Laforge, from the Google Chrome team.
But testers should not expect all that much from the latest release of Chrome shipping through the Dev Channel.
According to the Mountain View company, Build 9.0.587.0 is fixed on resolving a variety of problems that have been identified in the previous Dev releases of Chrome.
In this regard, Chrome 9.0.587.0 sports a range of GPU-related fixes, crash fixes, and instant fixes.
And this is pretty much the story of Chrome 8.0.552.208 Beta. “The Chrome Beta channel has been updated to 8.0.552.208 for Mac and Linux. This release contains a number of stability and UI improvements,” added Jason Kersey, from the Google Chrome team.
Google is expected to deliver the successor of Chrome 7.0 by the end of 2010, while pushing on with the development of Chrome 9.0.
If the search giant keeps up the pace that it imposed for the Chrome release process, the final version of Chrome 8.0 will be offered roughly six weeks after v7.0 shipped to customers.
Obviously, Google is planning to move onward at the same speed and frequency of major Chrome versions delivery, and customers should expect to be running versions 9.0 and then 10.0 soon enough.
Google Chrome for Windows is available for download here.
Google Chrome for Linux is available for download here.
Google Chrome for Mac is available for download here.