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Chrome Beta for Mac Nearly Ready for Launch, But Some Features Postponed
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Until they remove that creepy "keystone" updater that weaves its way into my background processes, I won't use any Google software. It's too hard to control, too hard to remove.
I agree with you there. The reason why i got rid of picasa. I also don't like the fact that apple apps do it too.
In Safari you can command-click to open a new tab from a menu item, the same as you would any other link.
Those are indeed some strange features to be leaving out. I'm using the alpha right now and the bookmarks bar works fine.
Works for me. Haven't found any that don't yet.
Possibly. I have already reinstalled Snow Leopard like twice and it hasn't helped Safari. I would do a clean install, but Apple thought it would be funny to get rid of the all-important Archive & Install option. So far I can only figure out how to refresh the system or completely destroy my data.
I like how breezy and simple you make it sound. Google Chrome is written in C++ and is a huge, cross-platform project. And it's not like they just fire up Interface Builder and crap out an interface. They have to make it all behave properly with OS X and feel like a real Mac application, on top of including special features like theming support. If it was so easy, it would have been done already.
I been using Chrome on Both the PC and MAC now for almost 3 months and I have not had any major problems with it. I really like the minimalistic GUI as well as the simplicity and features Chrome has. The only problems i have run into are in regards with Flash performance as well as stability. but that is mainly because i am running the Beta version of it.
Agreed...it opens in a fraction of a second on my 5-year-old G5, so on newer Macs (that aren't messed up) it should be pretty much instantaneous.
--Eric
If you want to try it now get the developer version here: http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac
This is great news, I'm a total fan of Chrome on Windows for my work PC and I've been running the developer builds for Chrome on my Macs at home. The more recent builds have had a significant jump in quality and I prefer using Chrome to Safari again because it seems to load pages faster. My only complaint is that there is currently no way to use the HTML5 viewer for Youtube like there is for Safari with ClickToFlash. The HTML5 viewer is a godsend for laptop users as it doesn't have flash nuking the battery while watching a video...
I've had the latest Chrome for Mac build for over a day now. Overall, so far I'm very impressed with its speed & general design.
Usually I use Safari 4 (a personal favourite), then Firefox, Opera & Camino, but can see a completed version of Chrome becoming at least my 2nd most used browser, if not the 1st. Yeah, that impressed.
Usually I use Safari 4 (a personal favourite), then Firefox, Opera & Camino, but can see a completed version of Chrome becoming at least my 2nd most used browser, if not the 1st. Yeah, that impressed.
So far the Chrome developer builds have been really stable. I've actually been using it as my primary browser for a while. It has bookmarks, so it's odd to see that missing from the coming beta...
I assume they just mean it won't have the fancy bookmarks manager, not that it won't have bookmarks.
Interesting... well, I find the list of things to cut slightly odd (erm, actually I didn't know it had bookmark synchronization in Windows, though, but I only use it on one PC), but I'm glad they're being transparent about their continued work on Mac stuff, rather than just an eternal "coming soon" stub page.
I've been almost two weeks using it in Windows now on my 701, and it seems okay. I like some things a lot about it. I actually use themes, which shocks me (I've a Kate Spade one right now). It's not grossly unstable but it does seem to get funny after a while and a large number of tabs, and I just shut it down and restarted it because it was behaving oddly. This has happened maybe three times in the two weeks, though.
I've been almost two weeks using it in Windows now on my 701, and it seems okay. I like some things a lot about it. I actually use themes, which shocks me (I've a Kate Spade one right now). It's not grossly unstable but it does seem to get funny after a while and a large number of tabs, and I just shut it down and restarted it because it was behaving oddly. This has happened maybe three times in the two weeks, though.
Chrome will capture the OS X platform
Firefox is such junk on the Mac. I think Camino and Safari are great, but frankly until Flash is fixed these browsers can bring any Mac to its knees no matter how many cores or how good the browser is. Click to Flash on Safari and Flash Block or ScriptBlock on Firefox are essential these days. Camino has it built in. I take it Chrome will be using Webkit. So it should be pretty good. I wouldn't be surprised if they manage in time to capture the OS X scene. Firefox is junk, Camino doesn't support plugins and it's a bit ugly (and development is slow), and Safari also doesn't do plugins that well and it can be temperamental, like choking loading pages. So, I predict Chrome will capture the OS X platform. I give them 2 years to do it.
Firefox is such junk on the Mac. I think Camino and Safari are great, but frankly until Flash is fixed these browsers can bring any Mac to its knees no matter how many cores or how good the browser is. Click to Flash on Safari and Flash Block or ScriptBlock on Firefox are essential these days. Camino has it built in. I take it Chrome will be using Webkit. So it should be pretty good. I wouldn't be surprised if they manage in time to capture the OS X scene. Firefox is junk, Camino doesn't support plugins and it's a bit ugly (and development is slow), and Safari also doesn't do plugins that well and it can be temperamental, like choking loading pages. So, I predict Chrome will capture the OS X platform. I give them 2 years to do it.
Safari runs like a demon on my machine. I have no reason to try out Chrome and I don't feel I need another Google product in my life. Damn data hoarders.
