The code of Google Chrome is based on Chromium, all the feature implemented in Chromium comes in Google Chrome.

What do you think of being one of the first to test new feature of Google Chrome? Interesting huh!

Download a bleeding-edge build of Chromium for Mac!

Chromium does not update automatically, for this reason I wrote a shell script which updates the Chromium on Mac:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Note, this will remove /Applications/Chromium.app
#

echo '..'
rm -f chrome-mac.zip chrome-mac
export CHROME_VERSION=`curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/Mac/LAST_CHANGE`
echo "   latest version: $CHROME_VERSION"
echo '..'
export CHROME_OLD_VERSION=`cat ~/dotfile/CHROME_VERSION`
if [ $CHROME_VERSION == $CHROME_OLD_VERSION ]; then
  echo '   latest version!'
	echo '..'
	exit 2
fi
echo $CHROME_VERSION > ~/dotfile/CHROME_VERSION
echo "   save latest version: $CHROME_VERSION"
echo '..'
echo "   get latest version: $CHROME_VERSION"
echo '..'
wget http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-continuous/Mac/$CHROME_VERSION/chrome-mac.zip
echo "   compile latest version: $CHROME_VERSION"
echo '..'
unzip chrome-mac.zip
rm -rf /Applications/Chromium.app
echo "   install latest version: $CHROME_VERSION"
echo '..'
mv chrome-mac/Chromium.app /Applications/Chromium.app
rm -rf chrome-mac chrome-mac.zip
killall -9 Chromium
open /Applications/Chromium.app
echo 'DONE'

base source: https://github.com/avelino/dotfile/blob/master/chromium_update.sh

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