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Adding Google Chrome Canary Channel

Would it be possible to add the canary builds of Google Chrome to Portable Apps. Obviously it would need to be updated a lot though.

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Probitive Time-wise, No Real Purpose

Unfortunately, the need for constant updates is very prohibitive. I don't have enough time for it. For comparison, Firefox's nightly channel uses a single download URL, so we only have to update the installer once every 6 weeks and users can install or reinstall to update to the nightly build of their choice. Canary would need to be compiled and updated every day and would require firing up a packet sniffing virtual machine to get all the pieces for every build.

Add to that the fact that we work with Mozilla on their releases, so they like us doing betas, alphas, and nightlies to help look for bugs. We have no such cooperation with the Chrome folks. So, it's kind of pointless to have a portable Canary build (with all the requisite work and support time taken away from other apps) since the purpose of it is to find bugs and those bug reports from a portable Canary build wouldn't be accepted by the publisher.

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