Google Chrome "Developer Preview"

mr.sly · 23 Oct 2009 at 12:25

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac

At last!

A stable Google Chrome for Mac, with Flash support and themes. A few things are still missing (like Bookmark Sync), but so far so good.

mr.sly · 23 Oct 2009 at 12:33

JAMAL said:
Is there any good reason to use this over safari?

So far it seems a little faster, especially if you're a heavy user of Google Apps (Gmail, Reader, Documents). Top tabs that Safari tried and then removed.

Each tab is it's own process so if one crashes the whole browser doesn't crash, Safari has something similar to stop Flash breaking the browser.

Worth a spin anyway.

mr.sly · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:31

I don't think there's anything wrong with Firefox, I just prefer using Safari. They've both got features I wish the other would incorporate. Opera used to be the browser which had everything I need, but it seems to have fallen behind now.

Had anyone managed to add any custom search engines to this build? Pressing enter seems to do nothing at the moment.

mr.sly · 23 Oct 2009 at 16:20

Bookmark manager doesn't seem to work either.

I don't understand why it's taking so long to get a full version ready for OS X and Linux.

mr.sly · 24 Oct 2009 at 19:21

fini said:
All over the internet. Did you even take a moment to search?
1st result on Google
2nd result on Google
3rd result on Google
etc.
etc.

To be fair you second result is comparing very old browsers.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2...stest-shipping-browser-webkit-tops-chrome.ars

A good comparison that was done recently.