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Google Chrome for Mac released (beta)
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- NathanKP 17y agoEveryone must be downloading it all at once. 22 KB/sec download speed on a T1 connection. I would expect better of Google.
- cscotta 17y agoReally? My download completed in about 20 seconds. T1 lines are highly reliable, provide guaranteed bandwidth, and low-latency, but are also very slow at only 1.544mbps (on par with low-end DSL).
- NathanKP 17y agoI might just be a local network condition, though the rest of the internet is loading at its usual speed. My Chrome download is still chugging away....
- selven 17y agoHave you tried torrenting it?
- jsdalton 17y agoThe first thing I did was convert the address bar to use a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search so that it functions more like Firefox. Here's how: Right click the address bar, choose "Edit Search Engines...". Click the + to add a new search engine. Choose whatever name and keyword you wish, but for URL use http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky. Make this your default search engine. Works tolerably well.
- nixme 17y agoStill no functioning bookmarks manager or bookmark sync. I was hoping they'd enable that in the beta release.
- kneath 17y agoI'm pretty frustrated with this as well. I've been using Chromium for a while now, and I can't use this Beta because it doesn't share bookmarks, or allow me to import from Chromium, or even move/delete the existing bookmarks. Guess I'll keep with the less stable nightlies for a while longer.
- fjabre 17y agoDon't have my mac handy.. Does it have full screen support on OS X?
- ChrisRicca 17y agoYup, although the option is grey-ed out on my machine ATM, and I couldn't tell you why... I've used it before, though
- fjabre 17y agoI have yet to find a browser with full screen support on OS X - which makes me think it's an OS X limitation.. So odd.. When you have a 13 inch macbook this problem becomes readily apparent.
- robgough 17y agoGray-ed out on mine too. Does anyone know why? This would definitely be nice to have.
- ChrisRicca 17y agoIf you want custom themes beyond what Google provides, I'm hawking a tool a hacked together a couple of weekends ago. It's a just-for-fun thing so the UI is pretty sparse, but it works! :) http://sexychrome.com http://sexychrome.com I'm a big fan of Chrome. Favorite features include the speed, full-screen browsing, detachable tabs. Needs a robust extension for CSS inspection/manipulation, though. Built in one doesn't quite flow as well as Firebug. Decent JS console.
- benpbenp 17y agoLinux too! http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/w00t.html
- novum 17y agoA fine tribute to XKCD. Good to see Google give credit (and a direct link!) to XKCD right on the page, too.
- suvike 17y agoUnfortunately, it shares Firefox's sloppy page scroll performance. Bleh. Guess I'll be sticking with Safari.
- lg 17y agoand it shares safari's inability to view XML documents. What's with that...
- johns 17y agoThere's an extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gbammbheopgpmaagmckhpjbfgdfkpadb https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gbammbheopgpmaag...
- Caged 17y agoXML View plugin for Safari - http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2009/02/09/Safari-Plugin-for-Viewing-XML-Data.html http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2009/02/09/Safari-Plugin...
- alaskamiller 17y agoGmaps and Gcal aren't rendered properly. Am I the only one?
- pkulak 17y agoCalendar looks great for me.
- rbarooah 17y agoDoes anyone know whether this has auto-update?
- padmanabhan01 17y agoNot sure if this is just me, but Google autoupdate is just broken for mac. It pops up even when the program is not running and the update only works if the current user is an admin. It does not prompt for admin password like all other updates do. And there was no way to not have autoupdate. That led me uninstall all Google software a while back.
- rbarooah 17y agoI am not referring to the general google updater that comes with the google pack. I mean the silent autoupdate that chrome for windows has.
- cpr 17y agoYes, that's been working in the dev version for a while.
- protomyth 17y agoI really do not like google's policy on updating. It presupposes that any organization has a lot of bandwidth and doesn't mind updates going off at inconvenient times. Since one of the places I work at has a couple labs of Macs and does video classes on the same internet connection, I see a real annoying situation.
- joebasirico 17y agoI've been using chromium for a while now and have been fairly happy with it (other than a bit of scrolling performance and some flash funnyness). Has anybody done a side by side comparison of Chromium and Google Chrome on the Mac? The UI looks identical, functionally they look very similar, and performance seems about the same as well. Thoughts?
- symesc 17y agoNear as I can tell: all that changed was the version number from .27 to .30. iStat Menus processor graph still goes nuts when scrolling compared to Safari. That said, Chromium/Chrome has been my default browser for about a month now.
- teilo 17y agoHow can they call this a beta when there's NO BOOKMARK MANAGER?
- selven 17y agoI might not know what you exactly mean by a "bookmark manager", but the star to the left of the URL textbox and Ctrl+B give you bookmarks.
- tienshiao 17y agoThe Mac version doesn't have a bookmark manager. You can click the star, and it saves the bookmark (or removes the bookmark). But unlike the Windows version there isn't a dialog/window that shows all your bookmarks and lets you drag/drop/etc.
- selven 17y agoCtrl+B (or Command+B on the Mac, I assume) opens up a bar at the top (or at least it does in the Linux version) and you can drag your bookmarks between the bar and the "other bookmarks" folder.
- ekiru 17y agoCommand+Shift+B, actually.
- nixy 17y agoYes, but there is still no bookmark manager. Try to create (on OS X) a bookmarks folder in the bookmarks bar. Proceed to add two bookmarks into that folder. Now... How do you edit/delete/rearrange the bookmarks that reside in the folder? I can't figure it out.
- Nogwater 17y agoHere's what I did (on OS 10.6). 1) Created two bookmark folders in the bookmark bar named "NewFolder", and "OtherFolder" (right click on bar->Add Folder) 2) Added two bookmarks to NewFolder (browse to site, click star, select NewFolder in Folder drop down list) 3) Moved bookmarks from one folder to the other (browse to bookmarked page, click the star, click Edit, change the folder drop down selection, close) This doesn't allow you to move folders around, and it's annoying that you don't have a way to manage the bookmark of a page without browsing to that page. It's not the full "Bookmark Manager", but you can manage bookmarks.
- slyn 17y agoThe email they sent to announce the beta (if you signed up to get it) has some interesting stats: Hi there, Thanks for signing up to hear from us regarding Google Chrome for Mac! We're excited to let you know that Google Chrome is now available in beta for Mac OS X. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team: -73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written -29 developer builds -1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed -12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors -64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests -8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed -4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten Thanks for waiting and we hope you'll give Google Chrome for Mac a whirl. Google Chrome Team www.google.com/chrome The 8.43:1 ratio of LoC to soft drinks/coffee consumed made me laugh.
- jsz0 17y agoI like being able to move tabs between windows seamlessly with Chrome. Safari lets you detach a tab into a new window but that's about it. I don't think you can merge it with another window that already has open tabs or re-attach it. My biggest gripe, which is purely personal preference, is not having the progress bar integrated with the address bar. At least the status bar automatically disappears after a page loads. The feature that will keep me on Safari is bookmark syncing via MobileMe. It's really nice having it sync to my other Macs and iPhone.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoIntel only. Looks like I'll be sticking with Stainless (http://www.stainlessapp.com/ http://www.stainlessapp.com/) -- probably would've stuck with it anyway, it's a pretty nifty little Mac browser.
- aubergene 17y agoI've recently switched from Ubuntu to a Mac (mainly just to learn wtf everyone says is so great), I'd been running Chromium there for ages, I'd prefer to use Chromium rather than give so much data to Google but I could find a package which will update like Chromium did on Ubuntu. Any suggestions?
- blasdel 17y agoGoogle's official Chrome builds update themselves automatically while they're running without needing to relaunch. The Mac Developer community has standardized on Sparkle, where the app downloads an update feed from the developer's site and prompts for an automatic update/install/relaunch. To get the Chromium on Ubuntu behavior of manually-initiated centralized automatic updates, you'd have to use a package manager and the only viable one is MacPorts, which is just not a good fit for desktop software.
- tlrobinson 17y agoThis feels even faster than the developer betas. Excellent.
- yumraj 17y agoWhats with the versioning of Chrome for Mac. "About Google Chrome" says 4.0.249.30 and AFAIK this is the only "Beta" software with a major version as high as 4.
- teilo 17y agoVersion parity. It's done all the time when porting to a new platform. Why would you want identical software to have different version numbers on three different platforms.
- yumraj 17y agoOK. makes sense. But then how come Win Chrome is already at version 4. In other words 4 as the major version seems high considering Chrome, for any platform, is fairly new. Compare that with FF which has been for much longer and is at 3.5.x Are they tracking Webkit or any other version?
- andreyf 17y agoNo, just trying to compete with IE8 in an enterprise environment. At the speed they're going, they'll catch up pretty soon :)
- jazzdev 17y agoYea! File upload works now. Now I shouldn't need Camino any more.
- pkulak 17y agoThis Beta doesn't have a bookmarks manager. Does that mean we have to wait until the next release to get it? That would be pretty bad to ship a browser with no bookmark manager.
- zooted 17y agoLet me know when it gets plugin support...
- aeroevan 17y agoIt has had plugin support (at least flash) for some time now.