# Chrome Canary for Developers

DevFeed: [Chrome Canary for Developers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/chrome-canary-for-developers-21671.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://paulirish.com/2012/chrome-canary-for-developers/>)

Author: Paul Irish

Published: 2012-11-02T15:16:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Paul Irish](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/paul-irish.md>)

Topics: [Chrome Canary](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome-canary.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Chromium](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chromium.md>), [Developer Tools](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-tools.md>), [Web platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-platform.md>), [Instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/instrumentation.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shaders.md>), [WebRTC](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webrtc.md>)

Tags: [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [chrome-canary](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome-canary.md>), [chromium](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chromium.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [experimental](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experimental.md>), [front-end](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/front-end.md>), [install](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/install.md>), [instrumentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/instrumentation.md>), [jpeg](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jpeg.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [mac](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mac.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shaders.md>), [update](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/update.md>), [web-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-platform.md>), [webrtc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webrtc.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

The article recommends Chrome Canary for front-end developers who use Chrome as their development browser. It highlights daily builds, early DevTools and web platform features, experimental capabilities, side-by-side installation with Chrome Stable, and the value of monitoring upcoming changes before they reach stable users.

## Source excerpt

If you do front-end web development and already use Chrome as your development browser, I encourage you to use Chrome Canary. A new Chrome Canary build is available daily (we cut at 2am PST and take the best of last 40 revisions, to be specific). Running fresh builds gives you great goodies to look forward: Chrome DevTools features $_ (for the Console's most recently evaluated result) Styled console logs (see The Breakpoint ep #2) JPEG decoding time instrumentation in Timeline Lots more: read Beverloo's WebKit updates and the Web Inspector commits RSS feed Features for the web platform HTML5 Rocks, peter.sh, and @chromiumdev are wise news sources for this. CSS Shaders, holla! Large, experimental features (go visit about:flags) Right now, there's exciting stuff like Web Component's Shadow DOM, WebRTC's Peer Connection, and more. Canary runs side by side The other reason why Canary is great is because it can run side-by-side with your other Chrome install. In fact this is why the URL for Canary's download page is "sxs". I recommend running Chrome Stable and Canary. That's how most of the Chrome Developer Relations team does it. You never need to update your browser, you can watch the new stuff coming at you (and file bugs if it breaks) and still see what your users see. 11 Weeks From Canary to 310M Users Fun fact: when a feature lands in Canary, it's only a short 11 week trip down to shipping to all 300+ million Chrome users on stable. That is, as long as everything is on schedule and the feature doesn't need to bake a little longer on dev channel before making its way down. Given that, it's a smart move as a dev team to watch as features (and sometimes bugs) trickle down to have time to adapt. When a new stable Chrome is ready, all users will have it within just a few days. Canary is available for Mac and Windows, but sadly not Linux. :( But luckily there are packages that track the dev channel Chromium that'll keep you up to date on a weekly basis, so you can have a