Chrome for Mac beta officially released →
As you must be knowing by now, Chrome for Mac beta has officially launched. It’s not very different from the developer builds we’ve been using all along.
Brian Rakowski, Chrome Blog:
We’ve been working hard to deliver a first-class browser for the Mac — it took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it! We wanted Google Chrome to feel at home on the Mac, so we’ve focused on uniting our clean, simple design with subtle animations and effects to create a snappy and satisfying browsing experience on OS X. As you might expect, the speed of Google Chrome for Mac is something we’re very proud of. If you have a Mac, try installing the beta and see how fast it launches — there’s hardly even time for the icon in the dock to bounce!
If you find Safari crashing and are looking for a suitable native webkit alternative on the Mac, Chrome might just fit in. It’s pretty stable, has all the basic features (with extensions set to be enabled soon), and is fast. It’s also got the cool features like independent process tabs, the omnibox, peeping statusbar, and the top-sites like thumbnail grid that’s not painfully slow as in Safari. It comes short of a few features however; to quote the Google Mac blog, “this first beta release for Mac does not yet incorporate extensions, bookmark sync, bookmark manager, and cookie manager.”
Check it out, and let us know what you’ll be using.
Update: You can enabled extensions using this trick at Grack.com.
