Prince McLeanMike Smith, the product manager of Google's Chrome Team, said in a blog announcement, "Today, I’m happy to announce that Google Chrome for Mac is being promoted out of beta to our stable channel.
"We believe that it provides not only the stability, performance and polish that every Mac user expects, but also a seamless native Mac application experience that Mac users will feel instantly at home with."
The new release can be downloaded from google.com/chrome. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and only supports Intel Macs.
Chrome is based on the WebKit rendering engine and APIs maintained by Apple, but in contrast to Safari, it offers a variety of unique features such as extension plugins that can modify how the browser works.
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Sweet.
is it going to collect my web surfing habits silently?
is it going to collect my web surfing habits silently?
More than likely
If you use Little Snitch, you will see the Google's Chrome likes to call home quite a bit. So much, that I gave up on it. There is no need for it to report home so much. Safari calls home like once a week to check for updates. Chrome calls home like ten times each time the application starts.
Further, it's Java implementation is horrible.
is it going to collect my web surfing habits silently?
Good news for people with Macs that would like more choice in browsers. The stable version of Chrome is solid.
Also, as will probably be demonstrated below me, I love it on how ANY news on this site is automatically criticized if it is not a product created by Apple.