Hi, if you use wrench -> about, the about box tells you if your current version is up-to-date.
At least on OS X, the about box also says "(beta)" if you're on the beta channel. I think there are plans to implement this on linux / windows too (if it isn't already). Nico On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Cambiot <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a rant (kind of). > > The Chrome browser is the only software that I've ever used that > updates itself automatically and yet makes it almost impossible to > know what version I'm using relative to what's current and what's in > beta. > > Before I get a hundred emails telling me I'm an idiot (which I'll > freely admit to), and I should just use "about:version" in the > omnibox, let me add that the info from the version command is only > half the problem. Here's what I get: > > Google Chrome 4.0.249.43 (Official Build 34537) > WebKit 532.5 > V8 1.3.18.16 > User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/ > 532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.43 Safari/532.5 > > [Oddly, though I copy the text from the "about:version" command, it > doesn't copy the colons, but does paste properly into a text editor > with two columns.] > > So, I'm using version 4.0.249.43 build 34537; what's the problem?? > > 1. "about:version" does not indicate whether I'm running the public > release or the beta. > > 2. "about:version" does not show the last time that my version was > updated; given that this update is completely invisible, I have no > idea if a computer I'm using has a recent update or not. [Yes, I can > get a message that my browser is up-to-date, but it still doesn't tell > me if I'm in beta or not or when it was lasted.] > > 3. The Chrome home page (http://www.google.com/chrome), while > admirably clean, does not indicate what the current release is, so > it's of no help to me in determining my own status. > > 4. The beta page (http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/beta/) > is also oddly silent on this issue, as well as what the latest > features are, or how to provide feedback. The user is merely directed > to the blog, which while informative, does not have an actual list of > new features, nor any versioning info, so I still don't know what my > version 4.0.249.43 actually corresponds to. > > 5. Even worse, the beta home page tells me: "You are currently using > Google Chrome. By downloading, you will switch to the BETA version." > This is really confusing, as I think I'm already using the beta > version, but Google is telling me I'm not, but I could switch to it. > > This obfuscation seems so pervasive that it must be deliberate, but I > can't figure out why this would be, while the statement "You are > currently using Google Chrome. ..." seems just wrong. > > All of this would seem to be trivial to fix, but am I the only one who > sees these issues as problems? > > Thanks, > adam > > -- > Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss >
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