Chrome on the M2 MacBook Pro now delivers 18 hours of YouTube or 17 hours of web surfing, but Google hasn’t provided battery life figures before the update. I'd want to know which I was doing in advance because sites or plugins I'm relying on might be broken for a while after a major update.Ĭhrome and Firefox's sudden switch to ludicrous versioning is nothing but a cynical ploy to make themselves seem more mature than IE and Safari (even though they're much younger) because they have bigger version numbers. Google claims recent optimizations make Chrome less of a battery hog on MacBooks. There's a difference between installing a security patch and upgrading to a new browser engine. Even OSX itself follows this pattern pretty consistently, (with occasional exceptions like adding the Mac App Store as a maintenance release). original: brew cask install google-chrome also works if you have homebrew. (Thanks to wisbucky for bringing it up in a comment below) edit 2019: homebrew has a new syntax for casks: brew install -cask google-chrome. You can quibble about exactly what goes in each division, but it's generally pretty obvious when an update is major or minor. edit 2022: brew install can now do casks by default. Maintenance update (Bug fix or very minor feature) Look at Apple's own apps for example - they're mostly in single digit major releases because they follow the industry standard of What do you mean there's no good way to choose? Everybody else manages to use the convention well enough.
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