Chrome for Mac [beta] finally arrives
Nearly a year and a half after the PC beta first shipped, Google has finally gotten its act together enough to squeeze out some love for the rest us. Well, all bitching aside, there’s finally a useable product available on the Mac — what’s hot and what’s not?
Google has released Chrome beta (17.6MB) and it’s quite fast, though it’s lacking a bunch o’ features, including a bookmarks manager, extension support, multi-touch gestures, 64-bit compatibility and Google Gears support.
“We took a hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version to build a fast, polished browser for Mac,” said Google software engineers John Grabowski and Mike Pinkerton.
Among the good things that did get baked in are sandboxed tabs (i.e. each is its own process that can’t bring down the whole browser), single-point input (Omnibox) for URLs and searching, user skinnable UI and porn mode, which Google calls “Incognito mode.”
Thereupon, Stainless 0.7.5 is a very mature beta from MesaDynamics that’s super fast, sandboxes tabs and a whole lot more. Like both Chrome and Safari, it’s WebKit-based and offers superb performance and standards support.
I’ve become a big fan of Stainless…
What’s your take?
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