Chrome 10 released

"I can think of a number of reasons why one might not update a particular application: dependence on specific behaviour, audit status, uniformity within an organization--none of which depend on one's facility with Chromium's build system."

The biggest one I've found is testing. I discovered a bug in a webapp of mine with chrome which I didn't remember seeing before. So I needed to find out whether this was a bug in my code or a recently introduced bug in chrome. Of course, all the windows test machines I had access to had magically updated themselves to the latest chrome version, and I couldn't find any real way of testing against an older chrome.

I won't touch Chrome on any of my (real) systems because of its behaviour. Google treat the user's PC like another one of their websites. Theirs to do whatever they want with whenever they want.

Life with transparently self-updating applications is like living in a state of permanent amnesia.