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Google Chrome for Mac: Don't hold your breath
Gather around, Apple fans. I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there is a preliminary version of Google Chrome up and running. Sort of. Google's Mike Pinkerton has posted a couple of screenshots of Chrome for Mac on his blog, including the very first time he used it to load a webpage. It's coming, folks.Now the bad news from Mike himself, "We've got a very very long way to go." He says that the WebKit that ships with Mac OS X doesn't do what they developers need right out of the box, and it took a lot of cajoling to get it to comply. If it's anything like the acrobatics I must perform each weekday morning to get my kids out the door in time to catch the school bus, Google's Mac devs will be busy indeed.
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chris said 12:34PM on 2-13-2009
Yes, interesting indeed. This means they have figured out (or mostly figured out) how to implement the sandboxing model on OS X. I have an article on my blog speculating about what exactly is taking so long to port Chrome to OS X - http://www.latko.org/2009/02/10/whats-taking-google-so-long-to-bring-chrome-to-os-x/
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Libby said 12:27PM on 2-13-2009
Looks like the Stainless (stainlessapp.com) will be the only multi-process browser on the Mac for the time being.
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Alex McKee said 1:58PM on 2-13-2009
Just downloaded stainless, this thing's a beast on a 800MHz iMac G4 with Leo. Waaaaaay faster than Safari/Webkit nightlies. You can even use the nightly WebKit's version of WebKit if you want. Very cool.
Schell said 12:27PM on 2-13-2009
From the Google Chrome Dev blog: "Our new goal is to have a multi-process browser limping by the end of the quarter."
They are making tons of progress and are documenting here: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/mac-detailed-status
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Mike said 12:28PM on 2-13-2009
Totally fine with me. Firefox and Safari are both great and by the time Google gets Chrome running on OS X, they'll both be faster, more efficient and more featureful.
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Blaze said 12:42PM on 2-13-2009
What? I thought Google used their own branch of WebKit?
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Darren said 12:42PM on 2-13-2009
I predict they have an public alpha build available within 3 months.
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Nate said 12:52PM on 2-13-2009
Oh well I am not all that impressed with Chrome anyways..
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Sam said 1:56PM on 2-13-2009
why not?
I've ditched firefox on my PC and i'd love a super fast browser on my mac.
Gazoobee said 2:03PM on 2-13-2009
It would seem that all publicly available information on Chrome for Mac goes against what Mike Pinkerton is saying here and since this article basically uses him as it's sole source It isn't really much of an article at all is it? This is more of a tweet than an article and wouldn't pass muster as a grade 8 essay.
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ItGuy said 2:28PM on 2-13-2009
Interesting commentary, but scary that this guy's a developer and never heard of a FireWire 400 to 800 adapter -- see his most recent post.....
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kudude189 said 2:34PM on 2-13-2009
I thought there was going to be some new feature. And they give us this. Come on google
get back in the game and rethink ur programming
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Swimatm said 3:05PM on 2-13-2009
I'll use Chrome if I can get Adblock Plus.
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James Madley said 10:21PM on 2-13-2009
ClickToFlash works with WebKit browsers other than Safari, so it would probably work with Chrome as well.
Matt2k said 11:35PM on 2-13-2009
month after next, tops.
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smeidu said 8:34AM on 2-14-2009
wanna see my mockup design for google chrome for osX?
http://www.smeidu.com/2008/09/04/google-chrome-for-osx-mockup-design/
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Cena said 8:30AM on 2-14-2009
I wish instead of chrome, google would work on mac version of gtalk...with all the features. I really need the file transfer & audio chat, to chat with my friends on windows :(
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hindlist said 8:47AM on 2-15-2009
Even though chrome is still new. The future is very bright. Iam sure it will take over market with in nex one year.
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