Chrome and Firefox both have several different auto updating versions. For Chrome there's stable, beta, dev channel, and canary (which is basically a nightly build). So there are lots of opportunities for bugs to be found by developers before they go live in the stable release channel.
--bb Sent from my Android. On Jan 4, 2012 1:43 AM, "Jacob Carlborg" <d...@me.com> wrote: > On 2012-01-04 00:02, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > >> On 1/3/2012 1:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >>> On 1/3/2012 10:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>> >>>> On 03-01-2012 19:47, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 1/3/2012 6:49 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Perhaps some kind of experimental releases would be better. It could >>>>>> help >>>>>> getting new features out to the community (and thus tested) faster. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> We call them betas <g>. >>>>> >>>>> But anyone can pull the latest from github and use it, many do. >>>>> >>>> >>>> That's not very practical for most users. Some kind of >>>> ready-to-download builds >>>> would be much better. As others suggested, the auto-tester publishing >>>> builds for >>>> download would be ideal. >>>> >>> >>> Using a nightly build is not very practical for most users, either, >>> probably the same group. >>> >> >> Well there is always the google (and mozilla) route of force-feeding the >> latest binaries to everyone :) >> > > They don't install nightly builds, do they? > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg >