If you have a tolerance for a buggy build of a browser that crashes or freezes regularly, you can have Google Chrome on your Mac. If you want a stable, proper release, unfortunately you'll need a PC (or run Parallels, ugh). For everyday users, there's been little Mac love. That's soon to change.
According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, himself late of the Apple Board of Directors, there's a good chance we'll be seeing a Mac release shortly before Christmas, ahead of the scheduled release date of some time in 2010. At a recent conference in New York, Schmidt said, "A lot of very sophisticated people are using Macs now and we need to get a version of Chrome out for that, which we'll have in a couple of months."
While Chrome's percent of market share isn't exactly worth bragging about and its minimalist design and lack of extensions don't currently make the browser much of a challenger to any of the big three, Chrome does boast impressive speeds in launching and page loading. Plus, the browser's isolation of each tab into separate processes is a worthy security feature, so much so that Chrome was the last browser standing at this year's CanSecWest conference during the Pwn2Own event.
Ben
October 12, 2009 at 8:16pm
"A lot of very sophisticated people are using Macs now and we need to get a version of Chrome out for that, which we'll have in a couple of months."
WTF? There weren't sophisticated Mac users before you released your crappy "beta" browser on our platform? I think that most Mac users can agree that it's annoying when developers simply 'port' over software from other platforms.
You can forget Crude [err... Chrome] browser being installed on any of my Macs- Safari all the way!
