Chrome for Mac due in December?

What's the big deal anyway? It's just a new front end on Webkit with a competing Javascript interpreter, a multithreading system that some people prefer but I find a memory waster and half the functionality of Safari. Konquerer and Apple already did all the real work, Google just repackaged it and put out a web comic. I've had Safari for years but it takes some Google release for Windows users to see that faster browsing is possible - but as a Mac user, why should I care whether Google wants to grace me with its presence?

Google can take its version of Safari, its version of Linux and its mobile Linux to somebody else's computer, I prefer mine working.

More and more Google is becoming like Microsoft.

They're entering the browser market at a financial loss, simply to dominate the market that's already saturated with too many browsers.

Either (1) Chrome will be identical to other webkit browsers, and thus completely unnecessary and that much more Microsoftian, or (2) it will be rendered using highly customized underpinnings to promote other Google products like Docs - in which case it's a whole new PIA for developers to work with.

I used Chrome on Windows and personally I hated it. It was ugly and for me hard to use. The big thing they say about it is speed but at mere milliseconds faster, for me, it doesn't make it better.

I prefer to use google wave on Chrome (os-x), it's a lot quicker than on Firefox or Safari. The Chrome dev. release is running stable and only occasionally something seems rendered wrong. But I still use Firefox as my main browser. Safari 2nd and Chrome & Camino as 3rd.

I use Chromium on my Ubuntu PC and it is fast, takes alot less CPU cycles, and if flash is chewing your CPU, it's very easy to kill just the flash process. I like how you can pin a tab I (not many do this), I prefer the bookmarking, and I get more vertical screen space.

If Chromium comes to Mac, I my replace Safari.

My experience with Chrome has been pretty hit and miss. In some ways its actually a great browser, and seems lighter and faster then Firefox if only by a little. I love how each tab takes up its own instance. However for some reason I've been getting lots of hang ups and crashes.

As for it coming to OSX? I don't know how well it will compete with Safari or if it will be stable enough to make people want to change.

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if you have a google wave referal I would love one,
joshthepants@gmail.com

I doubt Chrome comes with an Add-On to block Google Ads, like Safari or Firefox.

Wave will be great in it though, and I may use it as an "App" for Google Wave; i.e. it's always open and that's all it does.

Couple of things:

(1) The dev release is "official". It's the official public release on the dev channel. Googe has three channels: developer, beta, stable. They now have a stable, dev build so that's official. December should see a stable beta build.

(2) Google said they were planning on releasing a beta before 2010, which leaves December as the deadline. They said this a few months ago when they missed the "before the first half of 2009" deadline, which was after they missed the "before the end of March 2009" deadline.

That all being said, I'm not holding my breath. Google has missed a number of it's own deadlines (not including the three months after the Windows launch one that they've missed by almost a year) so if they miss this one I won't be too bothered. I want Chrome for Mac, badly, but I'm quickly losing hope that I'll see it before the year is out.

It's about time! The dev preview isn't too bad, but I often find myself defaulting back to Firefox or Safari.

Typical professionalism has an author research the topic before writing about, rather than babbling on about how they have no idea what they're being paid to write about.