Google may have omitted to launch a Mac version of its IE killer/not IE killer Chrome browser and instead concentrated on the other 95 percent of the market, but some canny coders have whipped up a homebrewed Mac version in the interim.

Codeweavers, which sells some pretty nifty tech that uses the Wine emulator to run Windows apps natively on Intel Macs, has pulled together a test version of Google’s browser based on the open source Chromium port.

Confused? Well, all you really need to know is that if you head on over to CrossOver Chromium you can download a beta release of Chromium for Windows that will run natively on your Intel Mac. It even comes complete with Windows style close buttons.

* As you’ve probably gathered, it’s not the official Google version, but it will do pretty much the same job until that gets a release date.

Out now | £free | CrossOver Chromium (via Technologizer)