Google Chrome to be out soon for Mac

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Google Chrome to be out soon for Mac

travelin cat

11:03 pm on Jan 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

A product manager said the company wants to release Chrome for Mac and Linux before the first half of 2009 is up.

"We have not spent any time building out features. We're still iterating on making it stable and getting the architecture right."

Samizdata

11:39 pm on Jan 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

As an habitual collector of browsers I will surely download it.

But nothing I have seen in the Windows version suggests that it will replace Safari.

No complaints about having the choice though. It wasn't so long ago that OSX was severely lacking in that respect (with IE5 dominating), and we now have quite a range of options - Safari, iCab, Omniweb (WebKit) Firefox, Camino, Seamonkey (Gecko) and Opera.

One more won't hurt, I suppose.

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travelin cat

11:45 pm on Jan 12, 2009 (gmt 0)

Don't forget Flock, especially if you are using a lot of social media interfacing....

Samizdata

12:31 am on Jan 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

Don't forget Flock

Having tested it, I am trying very hard to.

As far as I could see it was Firefox with additional unwanted baggage.

But choice is good, and presumably somebody uses it.

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Baruch Menachem

4:10 pm on Jan 19, 2009 (gmt 0)

I use Chrome most often on my windows laptop. For my purposes, it is Opera done right.

(Opera does have some better PC issues though that Chrome doesn't touch.)

So I will look forward to it on the Mac. I would think lots of people here would have lots of issues with it. But for my use, I think it will be a major step forward.

sunsiena

2:33 pm on Jan 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

Chrome is really fast and you quickly get used to it, but I doubt Safari users will prefer Chrome...