You can use Chromium (that is not tested officially, unless you know any open source testers that are willing to officially be the Chromium testers) with no obligations.You cannot use Google Chrome (that has been tested) with no 'obligations'.
Besides, you can look at the source code of the installer and of the updater and see what they do, in order to secure yourself from any issues you should worry about. Anything can be aborted, anything can be cancelled, when it is open source. You can get the nearest version to the Dev release (3.0.187.1), but it does not have the fix for the menu crashes. It was resolved a few revisions later, but maybe too much revisions later, so other stuff have also been developing (fixes or bugs or crashes). So, if it matters, here it is - http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/18035/ And this revision is after the menu crash fix (but includes a WebKit and a V8 merge, for better or for worse) - http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/18089/ I mean, you are not expecting the development to be stopped as soon as a version comes out for testing, right? that would be a waste of time for developers. Good luck. ☆PhistucK On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:41, E <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for your answer! > > Compiling my own chromium would be nice, but I just uninstalled all > that stuff (except eclipse ;-) and I have my reasons to let others do > that fraught work. I'd really like to be just a "normal" user, who is > lazy and wants to be served by the software. > > Using snapshots from the BuildBot, which are near to the releases > would be a compromise. So where to get the numbers of the builds? For > example Dev. build for 3.0.187.1 at this time. > > Obviously the brand new snapshots seem to be a little bit more stable > then before. But there are still some crashes in all versions since > several weeks. I Don't know, if this has been improved in the "stable" > updates? > > Sometimes it is important to have a good recourse to stable versions. > For example when Issue 11717 was spoiling the usage of chromium for > two or three days. The issue regarding to this breakdown was ignored > for too long and I guess, that the testers are not taken enough > serious at all. > > By the way, did you know, that in Germany a lot of people are really > concerned about the drawdown of privacy? For example gmail isn't > ignored because of the problems with the domain, but because of the > disrespect of personal liberty. Chromium needs to inspire more > confidence! > > To improve trust the chromium-developers could make it more easy to > use or test chromium without any obligation ;-) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
