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Google releases developer preview of Chrome Web browser for Mac
By Jim DalrympleOctober 23, 2009, 3:01 pm PT
The day a lot of users have been waiting for has arrived. Google Chrome is available for the Mac.
While the browser is available to the public, it’s not exactly ready for primetime quite yet. Google Chrome for Mac is being referred to as a “developer preview,” which basically means that it’s very early in the process of getting the software ready.
Some features of Chrome will be familiar to Mac users, like a page that lists your Web history or makes it viewable using thumbnails. Reminds you of Apple’s Top Sites feature in Safari 4.
You can download Google Chrome for Mac from the company’s Web site.
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Google releases developer preview of Chrome Web browser for Mac
By Jim DalrympleOctober 23, 2009, 3:01 pm PT
The day a lot of users have been waiting for has arrived. Google Chrome is available for the Mac.
While the browser is available to the public, it’s not exactly ready for primetime quite yet. Google Chrome for Mac is being referred to as a “developer preview,” which basically means that it’s very early in the process of getting the software ready.
Some features of Chrome will be familiar to Mac users, like a page that lists your Web history or makes it viewable using thumbnails. Reminds you of Apple’s Top Sites feature in Safari 4.
You can download Google Chrome for Mac from the company’s Web site.
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Been using it this past week already, and it’s FANTASTIC so far. Glad you posted on, Jim. I hope some more adopters come into the browser soon.
So far it has been INCREDIBLY stable for me (more so than Firefox + Safari combined)…As fast as Safari, supports Flash, built in dev tools and I’m LOVING the minimal interface on this too…
Only thing I want to see right in the near future: a comparable ad blocker to add onto Chrome. Adsweep is not cutting it for me like I thought it would…
I’ve only been using it a couple of hours, but it seems pretty good.
Isn’t Chrome a red-headed stepcousin of Safari? Both browsers were made possible because of WebKit. And we know who developed WebKit.
In any case, I’m not a big fan of Safari. I much prefer Firefox. But maybe I’ll give Chrome a try just to keep an open mind.
It is fast. The interface is clean/minimal. But it’s so feature-starved at this point that I can’t see using it. Not even a “mail this page/link to” option.
I’ll like Chrome when I can add features/extensions. But then again, I would like Safari if I could do that too.
Oh, by the way Torstein, Apple got most of Webkit from Konqueror and JavascriptCore – so it’s not like they developed Webkit from scratch on their own (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_%28web_browser%29)