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Google Releases Chrome for Mac Beta

Been using the dev builds for months now and it really has grown to be a very good browser. Although the missing Bookmarks Manager is a big fail on their part.

That said its zippy and lean
 
I was waiting for the beta version as I've been trying few developer versions but I kept getting the 'Aw, snap' error when I try most of the websites like google.com, facebook. Websites like new.sky.com or macrumors.com worked fine.

Now after downloading it I found out that it happens exactly the same thing. It's really not usable and I can't seem to find a solution online now for months!!


Does anyone have any thoughts on how to fix this?

Thanks
 
ive been using the developer preview and it has been very stable and a little bit faster than safari.. but i still use safari more because of pinch to zoom mostly..

does anyone know how to get pinch to zoom working in chrome??
 
I've just updated Chrome and will carry on testing it.

Once the bookmark sync feature is enabled I'll be happier (or xmarks support on mac).
 
Analog Kid said:
http://code.google.com/p/update-engine/

Basically a system process that any app can subscribe to and point to a server to download patches.

Nothing, and I mean nothing should have the right to update root owned applications on my system.
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Yeah the last time I looked at the Google update engine it looked like any 3rd party application could add in support for it. Then this application could use an already installed and authorized version of the update engine (say one that came with Chrome) to silently "update" items, in privileged locations, on the users system without any prompting or notification to the user (would love to be wrong about this). They may have changed it since I look at it... but when I posted questions about this behavior (was trying to make sure I was actually wrong) several months back I never did get a response from folks and it looks like the thread in the group is now gone.

I am a little nervous as a result, not so much of google or known 3rd parties but of malware authors using social engineering to get folks to run an application that behind the scenes uses the update engine to silently "root" the users system. Mainly worried about the shared Mac situation...

In a nutshell the silent update ability is what has me nervous.
 
I downloaded the developer version only a week ago, and just updated to this version. Safari's been giving me lots of crap lately, so I've been using this for most my browsing...which is really just Google Reader these days. :rolleyes:
 
In my opinion, Safari was the fastest browser out their pre-Chrome -- both in OS X Snow Leopard, and on Windows 7.

Several people wrote Chrome is slower than Safari. If anyone else has an opinion whether Chrome or Safari performs faster, please let us know.

Unless Chrome offers significant speed advantages, I see no reason to switch, esp. if there's no bookmark shortcut.

Safari -- very fast, stable, clean design, works great
IE -- horribly slow, occasionally crashes, bloated
FireFox -- used to be good, but latest builds are garbage; slow, unresponsive, errors and crashes
Chrome -- ?
 
Been using chrome developer build for a while now, I really like it.

Oh and I love the email I got from Google about it


Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team:

73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
29 developer builds
1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
 
Largely ok - but slight issues with Expose

Seems to be ok - fast enough compared to Safari - macrumors.com now loads more quickly for example - however doesn't seem to behave well with Expose if you have multiple windows open.

Start closing them and doing expose and the remaining windows don't always resize or re-arrange properly or the blue highlighting appears for windows that are no longer open.

TT
 
TyroneT said:
Seems to be ok - fast enough compared to Safari - macrumors.com now loads more quickly for example - however doesn't seem to behave well with Expose if you have multiple windows open.

Start closing them and doing expose and the remaining windows don't always resize or re-arrange properly or the blue highlighting appears for windows that are no longer open.

TT
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I'm not saying it's not Chrome's fault, but I've been having issues with expose since Snow Leopard. It's just not as good as it used to be.
 
At this time Chrome is almost always going to use more CPU and likely more memory (ignoring any major differences in page caching) then Safari since it runs multiple processes (one chrome renderer per tab). So you need to look at the total cpu and memory load across all of these Chrome processes.

The main Chrome process pulls in the rendered content from the external renders into the single UI you see. On Snow Leopard I bet/hope they use the IOSurface facility to do this, that should make it work more efficiently on Snow Leopard.

For example with three tabs open...

Code: 
PID       COMMAND             %CPU    TIME	RPRVT     RSHRD     RSIZE     VPRVT     VSIZE     
98676-    Google Chrome He    0.0     00:00.38	6460K     55M       18M       80M       1302M
98673-    Google Chrome He    0.0     00:02.26	16M       66M       39M       71M       1331M
98662-    Google Chrome He    0.1     00:01.05	8932K     49M       22M       53M       1299M
98657-    Google Chrome       0.0     00:11.32	54M       82M       87M       150M      1387M

Code: 
[0:526] > ps -ve | grep Chrome
98657 S      0:12.82   0   0      0   895924  88920     -        0   0.0  1.1 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome -psn_0_14159232
98673 S      0:04.62   0   0      0   839292  40772     -        0   0.1  0.5 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/4.0.249.30/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Helper --channel=98657.27512c80.1652552284 --type=renderer --lang=en-US --force-fieldtest=AsyncSlowStart/_AsyncSlowStart/CacheSize/CacheSizeGroup_0/DnsImpact/_default_enabled_prefetch/GlobalSdch/_global_disable_sdch/SocketLateBinding/_disable_late_binding/ --enable-crash-reporter=7ABA386224555E226D915B98E5B97818
98662 S      0:01.37   0   0      0   806292  22604     -        0   0.1  0.3 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/4.0.249.30/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Helper --channel=98657.2560080.805457962 --type=renderer --lang=en-US --force-fieldtest=AsyncSlowStart/_AsyncSlowStart/DnsImpact/_default_enabled_prefetch/GlobalSdch/_global_disable_sdch/SocketLateBinding/_disable_late_binding/ --enable-crash-reporter=7ABA386224555E226D915B98E5B97818
98676 S      0:00.52   0   0      0   808572  18608     -        0   0.0  0.2 /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions/4.0.249.30/Google Chrome Helper.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Helper --channel=98657.442f590.1602025856 --type=renderer --lang=en-US --force-fieldtest=AsyncSlowStart/_AsyncSlowStart/CacheSize/CacheSizeGroup_0/DnsImpact/_default_enabled_prefetch/GlobalSdch/_global_disable_sdch/SocketLateBinding/_disable_late_binding/ --enable-crash-reporter=7ABA386224555E226D915B98E5B97818
98733 R+     0:00.00   0   0      0  2426840    360     -        0   0.0  0.0 grep Chrome
 
*LTD* said:
Doesn't Safari already do this?


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Unfortunately, it doesn't ... As you can see, it only shows all of your bookmarks/history whose addresses start with "mac"... imagine you have a bookmark called www.supermac.com (whatever ;))... you won't find that by just typing "mac" ...

I have a bookmark called "umrechen_zahlensysteme".. with FF or chrome, i just type "zahlen" and it will show up... i don't even know the actual domain name... :(
 
Dwalls90 said:
Seems to be pretty fast for me, arguably as fast as Safari. Great first attempt and great port.
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Yes but are you running on an 8 core system? This is where Chrome has the advantage. It runs each tab in it's own process which then can run on it's own CPU core. If you have a bunch of web apps all running at once and had a multi-core computer Chrome would win by a huge margin. THIS is why Google developed Chrome. They know that soon everyone will have 4-core CPUs and they hope everyone will want to rn their web apps
 
One things that bugs me though is that it uses A LOT of CPU cycles when dealing with graphics/HD videos. Flash is as usual the worst culprit.
 
amirite said:
I'm not saying it's not Chrome's fault, but I've been having issues with expose since Snow Leopard. It's just not as good as it used to be.
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I had issues with Expose behaviour as well - probably like everyone - with 10.6
All of my SL issues have been resolved with 10.6.2 and I haven't seen this type of behaviour with expose since applying 10.6.2

To verify - I closed all apps - started Chrome and opened a number of windows.

As I started closing them I expected the windows to resize and re-arrange in expose but this didn't quite happen - also when moving the mouse whilst in expose I got the blue highlights as though there was an open window but it wasn't being shown.

I close Chrome and all open windows - did expose to verify that all windows were close - and moved mouse around - not blue highlights.

Open safari and a number of subsequent windows - this behaved correctly - re-sizing and re-arranging windows as they were opened and close without highlight ghost windows that had been closed.

Not major to me right now - but enough to report and have me remain on Safari as primary browser until the next update.
 
Jayomat said:
Sadly, it doesn't ... As you can see, it only shows all your bookmarks/history which start with "mac"... imagine you have a bookmark called www.supermac.com (whatever ;))... you won't find that by just typing "mac" ...

I have a bookmark called "umrechen_zahlensysteme".. with FF or chrome, i just type "zahlen" and it will show up... i don't even know the actual domain name... :(
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Ahh, I see what you mean now. I agree, it would be a nice feature!
 
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