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Dev vs. beta vs. cannary Chrome builds?

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https://twitter.com/#!/thatmiddleway/status/154664983681179648

What's the difference between these?

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thatmiddleway
Is there a place that has a side by side comparison to look at perhaps?
joshvermaire
additional information about differences on the Chrome Release Channels site would be awesome
paulirish
Canary is built every 60 revisions of Chromium. That comes out to be almost once a day. It doesn't go through a QA cycle.

Dev Channel runs through QA and ships about once a week.

Beta just gets the stable release before stable does. But it's not coming down from trunk on a regular basis like the other two.

The other important part is that Canary can run side-by-side with any of the other stable/beta/dev. So my preferred setup is running Stable and Canary side by side.

(Disclaimer: I'm on the Chrome team, fwiw)