Why you should start using Google Chrome Canary for everything…

Albert ByVerdu
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

As a web developer my ecosystem is the browser and if you like it or not (depending on your flavour) Google Chrome is one of the best to work with.

I love the idea about Brave:

Brave is a free and open-source pay-to-surf web browser developed by Brave Software Inc. based on the Chromium web browser and its Blink engine.

But is not the same experience, for example I do not understand why you can not dock the console and also, do not expect to have the nicest latest features that Google can offer you.

To be honest with you guys, I tried to work with Safari or Firefox but I just can not.

Google Chrome Canary is the Nightly build Chrome version for developers.

Get on the bleeding edge of the web. Be warned: Canary can be unstable.

Why I am saying to use Canary rather than the normal Chrome? Because for the last couple of months when I search for something Google has changed the way that ads are shown. Before if I recall correctly they were on the right side part but now they are on top, bottom and middle of the search result page. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Also, they do not even interest me at all, at least if they were based on my previous searches I probably could “click” in some of them.

For example, I was searching for `@ts-check not working` (yes, you can type check your javascript files in VSCode).

Canary result’s page
Chrome result’s page 👎👎

As you can see with Canary the search returned zero, nada, null ads. In Chrome it is an horror, from 19 entries 9 are ads and the worst is that they are repeated 3 times that is almost 50% of the returned content is just rubbish for me. Maybe they need to work harder to improve that algorithm.

I can understand that Google needs more 🤑🤑🤑 money but this is getting ridiculous. Ahhh of course you can hide them but I challenge you to find how to do it. Just a clue, you may want to clean your screen from dust because you could get confused.

I really recommend you to switch to Canary as you will get quite new shiny features, for example at the time of writing any javascript code that you write in the console gets evaluated straight away.

If I am not wrong Canary goes always a couple of versions in front of the normal Chrome.

The only issue that I have found with Canary is that from time to time things do not work as expected, for example when submitting a form, a website might crash with no reason or websites will not load. But as usual, cmd+Q and happy days again.

Let me know if lately is happening the same to you in Chrome too or is just me :(

Canary, FTW!

Albert ByVerdu

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Finding my place in the tech world, mostly in web programing. Engrossing my knowledge every day.

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