What Does Chrome Canary Mean?#
Techopedia Explains Chrome Canary#
- It is based on the principle of a canary in a coal mine; if something kills Canary, the changes are blocked.
- It is relatively less stable than the developer’s build.
- It contains new features. If these are not found to be beneficial for users, they are blocked from the developer build.
- Canary can run alongside the existing version of Chrome.
- Canary has a different colored icon. The browser skin is blue with a yellow icon.
- Canary cannot be set as the default browser; it is just a secondary installation of Chrome.
- Automated updates occur with high frequency.
- Canary provides support for multiple user profiles.