Google Chrome released for Mac

Google has released an official developer preview of Google Chrome for the Mac. Rather than digging through nightly development builds, you can download the developer preview of the WebKit-based browser at Google's official webpage.

Chrome sports several features similar to Safari 4 in Snow Leopard, such as sandboxing - each tab runs as its own process, so if one crashes, it doesn't bring down the whole browser. It also sports the "tabs on top" interface present in some builds of the Safari 4 beta released earlier this year. Some people hated tabs on top in Safari, but others eventually got used to it and even missed the feature when it was omitted from the final release of Safari 4; if tabs on top is your thing, then Chrome has you covered.

Chrome supports importing bookmarks, settings, and history from whatever browser you're currently using, so if you're curious to see how it runs on a Mac, go ahead and give it a try. Let us know in the comments if you run into any issues.

[Via Download Squad]

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Mark Hansell

I've been using Chrome for Mac for about a week. Very pleased, very fast and clean.

October 28 2009 at 8:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon

I tried using Safari and it was great. Fast, reliable, but missing few things. Can't install 3rd party apps AND can't command + # to choose tab. That was the deal breaker.
Been using Mozilla for a while now and since it supports command + # for tabs I've grown to like it.
But now...Chrome is faster? Wah? Has the command + # too? Wah? And this is only the developer's release? Wah???

I like it :)

October 25 2009 at 10:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike

Iâ€™ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with Snow Leopard conservation groups in regards to the new snow leopard application lol. I donâ€™t know- people are saying itâ€™s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.

October 24 2009 at 5:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Risto T

1) installed it
2) noticed that the tab close button is on the wrong side
3) dragged it to Trash
4) filed a bug

October 24 2009 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anandhemant

Is there a way to open many many sites in different tabs in one click? Like in Safari "Open in Tabs" when clicked on a bookmark folder?

October 24 2009 at 2:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rlibunao

Chrome is missing the bookmark keyboard shortcuts that I enjoy in Safari. Command-tab then command 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. to open a tab then go to my most frequently visited sites!

October 24 2009 at 1:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pcmaniac

doesn't support google labs... weird :)

October 24 2009 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

The search integration with Chrome is really great. It took me a second to figure out how to search google without having to go to google.com, then I realized that the search and URL are in the same field.

October 24 2009 at 11:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TineeFusion

It's slick and fast as hell...except...bookmarks manager doesn't work.

October 24 2009 at 11:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alf

Stainless!

http://www.stainlessapp.com/

October 24 2009 at 9:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply