is anyone planning on building a portable app of the google chrome canary channel?
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The Canary Channel isn't really necessary for portable use. Canary's main purpose is to avoid conflicting with your main Google Chrome install. And, since Google Chrome and Google Chrome Dev are already available as regularly-updated portable apps (which don't interfere with each other or your local browser) you're already covered. The Dev channel is preferable to Canary anyway, since Canary is an unstable nightly build while Dev is a bit more stable weekly build (that seems to have some review). Locally, you have to pick Stable *OR* Dev. With PortableApps.com, you get BOTH and they run independently
Plus, unlike Firefox, Chrome's updater is installed at the operating system level and is closed source. And it doesn't appear to be available at a single URL like the Mozilla Firefox nightlies we package as Minefield Portable which automatically pulls the latest build each time you install. So, like the Google Chrome Dev build, a portable version would have to be manually packaged every single day.
So, grab a copy of Google Chrome Dev (just updated yesterday, the day it was released) and use it with PortableApps.com Platform Beta 5 (see link at the top banner) and it'll keep you updated to the latest weekly build.
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Sorry to reply to such an old thread, but I can't help noticing that Canary and Dev are two different branches. Canary seems to be more loaded with experimental features and development goodness. While the Dev version is basically the "next" version, Canary may (and will) contain features not to be seen for 5 or 6 versions into the future of the main branche.
In summary, Dev and Canary are not the same, nor do they cover the same features.
I would like a portable Canary build, too
Canary is built nightly and basically a nightly pre-alpha build (aka, it will blow up, erase all your data, etc). As such, it would be a tremendous drain on resources and not a good candidate for portablization. If the Google Chrome team built it, we'd be happy to keep it updated via our updater, but our own resources are much better utilized in other areas (stable apps, platform development, etc).
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