While it is true that the application is primarily meant for testing purposes only, it does have the ability to sync your Google Chrome data between your desktop and your Google Chrome website, so if you happen to change something in your desktop, you will also see the corresponding change in the Google Chrome website. This is actually the same application that you can use to run Chrome on your PC.
If you're using Google Chrome on your Mac OSX machine, chances are that you are using the Google Chrome Dev Preview installed within the Google Chrome program (which is a Google Chrome experimental version). However, there is a big difference between these two versions of Google's web browser. There's also an independent repository of Google Chrome modifications and tools, called Google Chrome Build Tools. All active modification and cutting-edge technology are added to the Chromium code repository, and thus many builds are periodically released each day. At the core, this web browser is a free open-source project maintained by Google. The current issue has to do with how Google Chrome gets developing.