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Google: Chrome browser for Apple’s Mac OS X coming by first half of 2009

Monday, January 12, 2009 - 04:26 PM EST

"Brian Rakowski, Chrome's product manager, said the company wants to release Chrome for Mac and Linux before the first half of 2009 is up," Stephen Shankland reports for CNET.

"'That's what we've been hoping for,' he said in an interview Friday. 'Those two efforts proceeding in parallel. They're at the same level of progress,'" Shankland reports.

"The Mac and Linux versions are up to the level of a basic 'test shell' that can show Web pages. But a test shell is pretty raw," Shankland reports.

"'That team now is able to render most Web pages pretty well. But in terms of the user experience, it's very basic,' Rakowski said of the Mac version. 'We have not spent any time building out features. We're still iterating on making it stable and getting the architecture right,'" Shankland reports.

"In an unscientific CNET News survey from November, a Mac version was the second most common barrier to getting people to switch to Chrome, trailing only faster performance," Shankland reports.

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Jan 12, 09 - 04:33 pm Comment from: ken1w

In other words, since it's a Webkit-based browser, and getting the "basic 'test shell' that can show Web pages" working should not be very difficult, Google has REALLY done very little work on a Mac or Linux version of Chrome.

Mac OS X already has Safari and a half-dozen or so other Webkit-based browsers. Google can take its sweet time.

Jan 12, 09 - 04:41 pm Comment from: ericdano

*yawn* what? Chrome? What?

Jan 12, 09 - 04:42 pm Comment from: Thomas

"...in terms of the user experience, it's very basic,"

Sounds like a fully functioning version of Chrome to me!

Jan 12, 09 - 04:49 pm Comment from: HMCIV

When it comes out, I'll probably:
Stick with Safari as my main browser
Use Chrome for Gmail and all related things Google
Continue to use Firefox for my Guests/Private Browsing.*

(*No one will ever know I visit microsoft.com late at night. Ooooh Windows, give me some of that Mojo-jave right here!)

Jan 12, 09 - 05:32 pm Comment from: Phytonix

Who cares? If google want to contribute, I assume it is better for them to add more code to webkit.org.

Jan 12, 09 - 07:30 pm Comment from: Shawn

While Safari doesn't have an "official" extension system, that doesn't mean programmers haven't found ways to add a lot of Firefox's functionality to the browser. For a good rundown of valuable extensions for Safari, check out this post at Mac Guru Lounge.

Jan 12, 09 - 09:01 pm Comment from: alansky

Disappointed that Apple doesn't collect enough personal info about you when you're surfing with the Safari browser? Try Google Chrome! Guaranteed to collect ten times more personal info about you and your correspondents!

Jan 13, 09 - 01:29 pm Comment from: Willie G

m'eh... we don't need another browser

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