“73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta,” so sayeth John Grabowski and Mike Pinkerton via the Official Google Mac Blog. “We took a hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version to build a fast, polished browser for Mac — with features such as the Omnibox (where you can both search and type in addresses), themes from artists, and most importantly, speed.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version?” Sounds like Word 6. Yuck.
“We also took great care to make Google Chrome a native application for Mac,” Grabowski and Pinkerton report. “For example, we integrated the Keychain into Google Chrome for Mac, and incorporated Mac-style animations when you open the Bookmarks bar.”
For more details on today’s beta release of Google Chrome for Mac, check out the video below:
Direct link via YouTube here.
Full article here.
More info and download link for Google Chrome for Mac beta here.
its been out in Dev version for a while. it just can’t handle Quicktime. Meh.
Google is evil.
You all will excuse me while I go back to sleep now.
I won’t touch Chrome until Google takes Mac development seriously. As the tired saying goes: actions speak louder than words. Chrome’s Mac launch is pathetically late…
I agree with Dave. Google IS evil.
This isn’t just a reflection of a meme I picked up on.
While it’s idealistic certainly look at a book (horrors! a printed book!)
called Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher but if you skip the book here’s the wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
What is happening is that Google WANTS to keep growing, trying to be everything to everyone all the time, everywhere.
That’s a natural urge but it really needs to be controlled. It leads to a loss of genuine human scale understanding. They’ve already lost that of course…but at some point the founders need to seriously get a clue and hire someone to be a “growth review controller” whose job would be to say…”This has a strong potential for being too big, too impersonal, too corporate, in short…evil.
At least Google is taking the OS X Keychain seriously – which is more than we can say for Mozilla, sadly.
I’m still sticking with Firefox, though.
FAIL.
All I see are unicode AAAAAAAA characters on the Google homepage.
Hey Google, here… have a quarter. Call someone who cares.
Oh goody, do we get the XP type icons and Windows look? Then I can pretent my Mac is a ‘real’ computer. Can’t wait.
I’m trying it now. So far, don’t see any reason to leave Firefox or Safari or Camino.
Guess I expected too much, such as improvements over those browsers.
STAINLESS FTW!
http://www.stainlessapp.com/
ever heard of parallel sessions? yeah, i thought so.
‘Pretend’ I meant (fat fingers in the iPhone)
MobileMe syncs bookmarks from Safari to iPhone thereby necessitating it’s use. Therefore, I won’t ever use Google Chrome. or Firefox.
Smiled at the Unhappy Mac reference in the crashed tab. Nice touch.
However, if Google is still harvesting and claiming ownership over all the data the user passes through Chrome, I’m saying thanks but no thanks.
At the end of the day, competition is still good. May the pressure from Chrome push the speed and usability of Firefox and Safari even further.
(I didn’t include IE. Microsoft isn’t even trying.)
I think it looks cool. I’ll play with it.
“Hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version?”
Definitely a poor choice of words if they’re hoping to attract Mac users!
“Keychain Services Integration” extension for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13509
I find it amusing that Google’s extremely incomplete beta version of Chrome for Mac can boast Keychain integration, while after all this time the best Firefox can do is offer a third-party extension for it…
How long will this be in beta? (That was a rhetorical questions)
Rule of thumb:
On Windows – use Chrome, Opera, FF.
On Mac – use Safari/WebKit nightly builts, Camino, Opera.
On Linux – ask Google why the snub?
Count me unimpressed.
Mac version still lacking BASIC features of the windows version
still no Linux version
this is an absolute joke
could not really have taken this long to make a demo crap version, they are just acting quickly to put out something based on articles saying that google had no intention of making a Mac chrome, like the following:
http://www.derekunderwood.com/general-computer/google-chrome-is-really-still-just-for-windows/
I am going to stick with Safari and FF for now. This seems like a waste of time if you ask me. Supposedly it is littered with features that are not implemented or that are broken.
We need another browser like we need another government hand out.
Oh suuurrrrre. I’d love to let Google monitor and archive every web transaction I make. NOT!
“Hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version”
READ: a subset of features that we put into the Window version.
I won’t use products that treat Mac users as second class citizens. Bring us parity or better.
Here’s the Onion’s take on Google, it’s funny, in a scary way….
welcome to Google’s “Opt Out Village”…
PS MDN, had to open Chrome to send this,… safari doesn’t work, weird
Doubt I’ll be using it, however … I do like the the more space efficient use of Tabs in the title bar, similar to what Apple did with Safari 4 through the testing stage. It was one of those things that I didn’t like at first, but grew on me as I used the Beta, and then was disappointed when it was cut out of the final version.