Google Chrome for PC has been around for a while now but a full, non-developer version for Macs has been nowhere to be seen. It looks like that could change soon though. If whispers on the developers’ forum are right, Google Chrome for Mac will arrive in December.
The next version of Google Chrome (and the forthcoming Google Chrome for Mac) will include the ability to customise the browser with extensions as you can do in Firefox. The feature for seeing and tweaking extensions in Chrome is called Browser Actions.
It’s a note from Google Chrome product manager, Nick Baum, about Browser Actions that gives the biggest clue that Google Chrome for Mac will arrive in December. In a Google Group update to encourage developers to update their extensions, Baum writes:
“The earlier you switch, the more time you will have to polish your experience for our Beta launch in early December.”
Baum goes on to discuss both the Linux and Windows versions, suggesting that new builds of Google Chrome for all three operating systems will drop in December.
This news follows on from suggestions by Google product management vice president Sundar Pichai back in September, that Google Chrome will make it to Macs by the end of this year.
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Due December | £free | Google Chrome (via CNET)
Cannot wait. Chrome is so much faster than Firefox 3.5 on my PC, and it’s the little things like how smooth tab re-arranging is that have got me itching for a full beta on Mac.
Excellent – you can get daily developer builds of chromium from google for the Mac: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/ – It works great!
I’m looking forward to Chrome so that I can have a better way of updating, without downloading a new zip every week.
That’s what’s been putting me off so far. Thinking about making the jump now though.
We discourage people from using our snapshots. They’ve had no testing and are often broken, plus manual updating is painful. Mac users who want to try Chromium now should instead use the Dev channel, which _does_ have some testing and automatically updates. See http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac .
Another browser! *sigh – says the web developer*
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