...their work is far from done). But is that the real reason? Steve Gillmor at Techcrunch proposes another potential way to look at it; Googles open source browser has a number of eager customers, including OEMs -original equipment manufacturers- who cant offer the browser until it is in full release. Yesterday when Googles plans started surfacing, Ionut Alex. Chitu commented, Out of beta? Thats a joke, right? Maybe out of alpha is a more appropriate description.

Google was and continues to be eager to get Chrome out to many people, Beta or not. They advertise for it using AdSense, they show special links on YouTube pages, and last not least, they promoted Chrome on their homepage.

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