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Chrome Canary - Wonderful but flawed - Just like me


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"He's dead, Jim!".  That's what Chrome Canary tells me every time I try to play a youtube video. Chrome Canary and Windows 7 doesn't let youtube work. You always get the purple screen of death saying that Chrome ran out of memory.

When you download Chrome ( from here: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/canary.html ), the splash page warns you.  It says" Get the Bleeding Edge of the Web".  It says that this browser is not for the faint-hearted and it crashes regularly.

The splash page also says: "Google Chrome Canary has the newest of the new Chrome features.
Be forewarned: it's designed for developers and early adopters, and can sometimes break down completely."

So why did I get it? I am a developer among other things. When I develop Android, and I have an app with a web widget, often things like javascript breaks down.  These kind of web errors are often not reported in the Software Development Kit.  Only Java errors that throw exceptions are regularly recorded.  So when your app goes Islamic Terrorist Irrational on you, you can connect the USB cord to the Android device, type in chrome://inspect and click on devices, and you can get an idea of why you app has gone ape-crap or bat-crap crazy. A javascript console can be a very helpful thing.

Other features is that Chrome Canary is blazing fast.  In fact the only negative so far, is that it craps out with youtube and win7.  I am willing to bet though, that it doesn't crap out in a Chromebook.

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