Google Chrome For Mac [Beta] is Released

By Daniel Miessler on December 8th, 2009: Tagged as Apple | Google

The wait is over.  Google Chrome for Mac is now available in beta. It’s still missing a few features that are in the Windows version (like support for extensions), but the browser is lickety-split and more-or-less stable.

I’ve been holding off really using Chrome until now. But I’m ready for something faster and less crashy than Firefox. (Crosses fingers).

Right from the gate, you can apply themes from a gallery to trick out your browser. Are you more into gnomes (”Infected Mushroom” theme) or blurred out images of the Brooklyn Bridge (”Donna Karan” theme)? Yeah, I’m gonna stick to the minimal default look. Although one thing that takes getting used to is the almost complete lack of toolbar real estate. Where are all the buttons?

One little feature I like, which Chrome borrows from Safari, is that when you click on a new tab, it shows you a gallery of recent sites you’ve visited. And you can drag a tab off to detach it as a separate window. Handy.

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Meh, I use nightly’s anyway. But still an overall win for the progress of Chrome on Mac.

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  • jasonpowell

    Just as a small point, extensions aren't official in the Windows version of Chrome yet, either. They're only in the dev version.

  • http://maxolasersquad.com/ Maxolasersquad

    The speed of Chrome, especially its Javascript engine, is unmatched. I do all of my development in Chrome these days and only fall back to Firefox and IE after I have stabilized behavior in Chrome. I do still use Firefox frequently for the Firebug extension. Also, the DOM viewer in the Windows version is not yet present in Linux, which is where I develop.

  • Maxo

    I stand corrected, the new beta for Linux does have the developer tools.

  • Maxo

    My understanding is that extensions are in the beta version for Linux and Windows, but only the dev channel for Mac.

  • http://maxolasersquad.com/ Maxolasersquad

    The speed of Chrome, especially its Javascript engine, is unmatched. I do all of my development in Chrome these days and only fall back to Firefox and IE after I have stabilized behavior in Chrome. I do still use Firefox frequently for the Firebug extension. Also, the DOM viewer in the Windows version is not yet present in Linux, which is where I develop.

  • Maxo

    I stand corrected, the new beta for Linux does have the developer tools.

  • Maxo

    My understanding is that extensions are in the beta version for Linux and Windows, but only the dev channel for Mac.

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