14 DAY TRIAL // Confirmed by Google’s Anthony Laforge a few hours ago, the Chrome Dev channel has been updated to version 13.0 for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X. The new release contains Omnibox string matching improvements, and ongoing work on the Print preview function. It also drops support for a certain Linux distribution.
Laforge makes it official, writing on the Chrome Releases blog that “The Dev channel has been updated to 13.0.767.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.”
Affecting all supported platforms, including Macintosh computers, print preview work continues, while Omnibox string matching has been improved, says Laforge.
The Google staffer mentions a Linux-specific change, noting that Chrome 13.0 no longer supports Ubuntu Hardy. He explains why:
“We are discontinuing support for Ubuntu Hardy for 13.0, in effect matching that Ubuntu has officially stopped supporting Hardy (including stopping security updates) as of May 12th, 2011,” according to Laforge.
As usual, testers are more than welcome to skim through the whole list of changes occurring in Chrome 13 by accessing the SVN log of all revisions.
Since the Dev channel offers alpha-grade builds of the Chrome web browser, users are likely to encounter not one, but multiple issues with the browser. In such cases, the built-in bug reporter is to be used, Google advises.
Earlier this week, we reported that Chrome Beta had reached version 12 with a number of UI tweaks and performance fixes scheduled to get incorporated in the forthcoming Chrome 12 Stable (Final) release.
The Current Stable version of Chrome for Mac OS X is 11.0. All versions of the browser (Dev, Beta, Stable) can be downloaded via the link below.
Download Google Chrome for Mac OS X (Free)
Google Chrome requires an Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5 Leopard with 128MB of RAM and roughly 100MB of available disk space.