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This is fantastic.

I'm thoroughly impressed with the Chromium authors. From their continuous build cycle (http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/console) to their very active developer community, it's clear that they are driven to make a better browsing experience for everyone. By getting themselves into the business world, the footprint they've created in the browser market can become even larger.

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Why are you so impressed about a continuous build cycle? I think continuous integration (including full build and test runs for roughly every push) should be a given for a non-trivial and widely-used desktop application, especially one that is released on multiple platforms. I don't see how that's something to be "impressed" about.

He's probably impressed because while that should be "a given for a non-trivial and widely-used desktop application", in reality it rarely is.

I'd argue that your default expectation should be the world as you wish it were, not the world that is. So here you shouldn't be impressed with the CI, but should instead have an unfavourable opinion towards software that doesn't. But that's just how I think things should be. :)

All major browsers do this.

Firefox: http://tbpl.mozilla.org/ Safari: http://www.publicsource.apple.com/

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