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.

JAMAL · 23 Oct 2009 at 12:28

Is there any good reason to use this over safari?

fini · 23 Oct 2009 at 12:30

It's faster.

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.

Feek · 23 Oct 2009 at 13:44

I see no reason to change from Firefox.

Burnsy2023 · 23 Oct 2009 at 13:49

Feek said:
I see no reason to change from Firefox.

I must admit, I'd rate Safari and Chrome above FF on Mac.

Feek · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:05

Why? I asked the question before about why people don't rate FF on the Mac but I don't remember ever seeing an answer. It works, it doesn't crash, it's reliable and I can use the extensions that I want.

/edit, sorry this is going OT.

Burnsy2023 · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:10

Feek said:
Why? I asked the question before about why people don't rate FF on the Mac but I don't remember ever seeing an answer. It works, it doesn't crash, it's reliable and I can use the extensions that I want.

/edit, sorry this is going OT.

Speed mainly. It seems sluggish, especially on any AJAX heavy site. Not sure why but I didn't like it. I used to use FF all the time on the Windows machine too, but that changed when I installed Chrome.

waso_dude · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:19

fini said:
It's faster.

Where is the proof?

I find chromo to be a wanna be internet browser

Burnsy2023 · 23 Oct 2009 at 14:25

waso_dude said:
I find chromo to be a wanna be internet browser

What?

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.

FreeStream · 23 Oct 2009 at 15:18

I don't rate FF on mac either tbh. Only reason I use FF is for Ogame!

Otherwise 64 bit Safari ***.

rp2000 · 23 Oct 2009 at 15:48

Firefox has been slower than Safari on Mac for me forever (10.4 - 10.6). I don't know if extensions play a part in this.

Might grab this Chrome preview to replace FF as my secondary browser.

rp2000

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.

Slogan · 23 Oct 2009 at 17:31

Chrome is a great browser.

I regularly use Firefox and like it but I do think Chrome is a cut above.

geekyEd · 23 Oct 2009 at 17:44

Um just started to use it, its actually a very nice browser

Spyhop · 24 Oct 2009 at 12:33

It's nice enough, but I don't yet see a compelling reason to duplicate Safari.

NickK · 24 Oct 2009 at 17:09

Hmm I'll stick with safari I think.. one less web browser stealing my precious SSD free space!

fini · 24 Oct 2009 at 17:46

waso_dude said:
Where is the proof?

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.

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.