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Google releases Google Chrome for Mac beta
Mac Daily News ^
| Tuesday, December 08, 2009 - 12:44 PM EST
Posted on 12/08/2009 11:15:46 PM PST by Swordmaker
"73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we're excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta," so sayeth John Grabowski and Mike Pinkerton via the Official Google Mac Blog. "We took a hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version to build a fast, polished browser for Mac -- with features such as the Omnibox (where you can both search and type in addresses), themes from artists, and most importantly, speed."
MacDailyNews Take: "Hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version?" Sounds like Word 6. Yuck.
"We also took great care to make Google Chrome a native application for Mac," Grabowski and Pinkerton report. "For example, we integrated the Keychain into Google Chrome for Mac, and incorporated Mac-style animations when you open the Bookmarks bar."
For more details on today's beta release of Google Chrome for Mac, check out the video below:
Direct link via YouTube here.
Full article here.
More info and download link for Google Chrome for Mac beta here.
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posted on
12/08/2009 11:17:05 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
Google Chrome has the appearance of a ‘newbie website’.
It seems rather amateurish and unpolished, as if done on the cheap.
The biggest question I have is what purpose does it serve?
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posted on
12/08/2009 11:21:09 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
To: Swordmaker
Safari more than does the trick for me. Chrome would have to really revolutionize things to make me want to swithc.
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posted on
12/08/2009 11:37:25 PM PST
by
DemonDeac
To: UCANSEE2
The biggest question I have is what purpose does it serve? Promotion of Google???
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posted on
12/09/2009 1:47:28 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE isAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Swordmaker
The main problem with it is that each tab has its own process. That doesn’t work for my use of Mac browser to keep various tech references (e.g. iPhone SDK docs) open while programming (since the built in xcode doc viewer is horrible). With 8-12 browser windows (one for each sub-area of interest) and each 6-8 tabs per window, browser would use up to ~100 processes (with all the memory & CPU overhead that goes with each). That’s absurd. Combined with the annoyance of having Google spyware on the system all the time, I’ll keep Safari.
To: Swordmaker
Still using Chromium which allows extensions. That allows me some of my favorite things. Adblocking, I forget how much I like it until I use a browser without it. But Chromium also has the speed of Webkit and allows me to resize the text input areas on Web sites. Firefox has an addon for that, but it is less artful than the built-in feature on Safari and Chrome.
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posted on
12/09/2009 4:15:15 AM PST
by
Mr. Blonde
(You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
To: nightlight7
The main problem with it is that each tab has its own process. It does seem wasteful, but it fits with Google's longer term browser-as-OS model. Its advantage is you can crater one tab, but the other browser tabs being their own process, are unaffected.
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posted on
12/09/2009 4:46:55 AM PST
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd: ON)
To: All
Some previous Apple articles posted on Free Republic...
at least by Star Traveler
- Who Can Kill the iPhone?
- Apple's iTunes overtakes Amazon in overall music sales
- Apple iPhone expected to drive mobile phone industry toward fancier touch screens
- Apple devotees rush stores for iPhone
- Mac users 'ecstatic' about new Apple Store
- Jobs Is Back, Apple's Still Standing, Life Goes On
- Out with Treos, in with iPhones
- Letters from Microsoft: An Employee Tosses His Zune
- Apple's 99-Cent Apps Are Too Cheap, Microsoft Says
- ONE IN FOUR SONGS IN U.S. BOUGHT ON iTUNES
- "APPLE HAS CHANGED THE WAY THE GAME IS PLAYED", says MSFT Win Mob chief
- iPhones Cause People To Talk Less
- GROKLAWS EXCELLENT TAKE ON THE RECENT PSYSTAR SHENANIGANS (Apple Computer)
- PSYSTAR HIT WITH $5K FINE FOR DISCOVERY ABUSE (Apple Computer)
- INTEGO SPOTS MALWARE BLOCKER IN SNOW LEOPARD (Apple Mac OS X)
- Parallels to make switching to the Mac easier, safe and painless
- THE IPHONE & STEVE BALLMER: ITS TIME FOR HIM TO EAT SOME SERIOUS CROW
- An in-depth look at Psystars legal defeat at the hands of Apple
- Has Palm finally given up on the great cat/mouse/iTunes chase of 09?
- Jobs Personal, Terse Reply to Developer [Apple Computer]
- Android goes for iPhone weak spot: porn apps [Porn is iPhone Killer?]
- Mac sales projected to grow 26% in 2010, outpacing PC market
- Apple's iPhone On Its Way To Becoming The Microsoft Windows Of Mobile
- Is Apple the Mobile Walmart?
- Apple's Base Stations Have Three 802.11n Streams [Faster WiFi on Apple]
- Analysis: Apple Embraces The Cloud, Positions Mobile With Lala Deal [Extends iTunes]
- Forget The iPhone: The iPod touch Is Where Its At
- >All Hail the iPod touch
- Apple Bans Another Developer, 1000+ Apps Pulled [Developer scamming reviews]
- Lala purchase may hint at the coming of the rumored iTunes Replay service
- Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. [iPhone Talk-to-text]
- Apple can be copied, but can it be beat?
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posted on
12/09/2009 8:50:39 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: All
Some more previous Apple articles posted on Free Republic...
these by Swordmaker
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posted on
12/09/2009 8:51:12 AM PST
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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