Canary is built every 60 revisions of Chromium. That comes out to be almost once a day. It doesn't go through a QA cycle.

Dev Channel runs through QA and ships about once a week.

Beta just gets the stable release before stable does. But it's not coming down from trunk on a regular basis like the other two.

The other important part is that Canary can run side-by-side with any of the other stable/beta/dev. So my preferred setup is running Stable and Canary side by side.

(Disclaimer: I'm on the Chrome team, fwiw)

Great, thanks for the additional info paul.

http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-How... Thanks to @mark_reeder

Is there a place that has a side by side comparison to look at perhaps?

additional information about differences on the Chrome Release Channels site would be awesome

YA RLY