How can I tell which Google Chrome channel I’m running?

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Is there a way from within Google Chrome to know whether I’m running the stable, beta, or dev channel?

I was experiencing problems with recent dev releases and decided to go back to stable. Now I want to make sure it worked.

In “About Google Chrome” is says

14.0.835.186 m

Does that m stand for stable perhaps?

By the way I’m on Windows but I assume there’s a platform-independent way to check?

Answer

Try chrome://version/

Regular Chrome says: 

Google Chrome   14.0.835.186 (Official Build 101821) m
OS  Windows
WebKit  535.1 (branches/chromium/835@94713)
JavaScript  V8 3.4.14.21
Flash   10,3,183,10
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1
Command Line    "C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --flag-switches-begin --enable-print-preview --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Profile Path    C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Chrome Beta says: 

Google Chrome   14.0.835.186 (Official Build 101821) beta-m
OS  Windows
WebKit  535.1 (branches/chromium/835@94713)
JavaScript  V8 3.4.14.21
Flash   10,3,183,10
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1
Command Line    "C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --flag-switches-begin --enable-print-preview --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Profile Path    C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Dev says:

Google Chrome   14.0.835.186 (Official Build 101821) dev-m
OS  Windows
WebKit  535.1 (branches/chromium/835@94713)
JavaScript  V8 3.4.14.21
Flash   10,3,183,10
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1
Command Line    "C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --flag-switches-begin --enable-print-preview --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Profile Path    C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Canary says:

Google Chrome   16.0.891.0 (Official Build 102650) canary
OS  Windows
WebKit  535.5 (@95897)
JavaScript  V8 3.6.4
Flash   11,0,1,148
User Agent  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.891.0 Safari/535.5
Command Line    "C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" --flag-switches-begin --enable-print-preview --flag-switches-end
Executable Path C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe
Profile Path    C:\Documents and Settings\geek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome SxS\User Data\Default

Regular is m, Dev is dev-m and canary is canary

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Source : Link , Question Author : hippietrail , Answer Author : Sathyajith Bhat

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