[Swordmaker]

Google Chrome for Mac BETA now available... PING!

Google Chrome Beta for Mac Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[UCANSEE2]

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?

[nightlight7]

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.

[Mr. Blonde]

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.

[Star Traveler]

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
• GROKLAW’S 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: IT’S TIME FOR HIM TO EAT SOME SERIOUS CROW
• An in-depth look at Psystar’s 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 It’s 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?