Google Chrome:Mac - New Working Builds!

Google Chrome was released to the Windows world last year - promising to be a new take on web browsing. It's advertising slogan is even "A new way to get online". Many hailed Chrome as the future of web browsing, and expect Google to go head-to-head with Microsoft in a bid to win marketshare over Internet Explorer.

Mac users on the other hand have been left out of the loop on this new browser for the longest time, and Google was heavily criticised for this, and lead many to doubt Google Chrome's strategy in takeing on Internet Explorer without a Mac client. Many of Chrome's features have found their way onto the Mac, such as "Tabs-On-Top" in the Safari 4 BETA, and the SpeedDial homepage is also found in Apple's latest browser (Though this feature was admittedly already in Opera).

Development was looking bleak for Mac users for the longest time, with many issues in the area of sandboxed processes arising in development.

This week however, working trunk builds of Google Chrome for Mac have appeared in Chromium's release pages (Chromium is Chrome's Open-Source developmental cousin) and it looks as though Googles Browser is finally on it's way to the OS X platform.

While the release is inherently buggy, it has been clocked faster than the latest Safari 4 BETA by SunSpider Benchmarks

In the video at the top of this post, I give a view of the look and feel of Chrome for Mac, and my first impressions of the developmental release.

You can download the latest build hereby scrolling down to the bottom and downloading the zip file. Though this may not yet become your everyday browser, there is no harm in giving Google Chrome a shot, and having a go at some of the Windows User's fun!

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