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Google Chrome Browser

Sep 02, 2008 LeberMac link
New Google Chrome Browser...

Download it.

Read about it.
Sep 02, 2008 Surbius link
Google. The new Microsoft.
Sep 02, 2008 vIsitor link
Nifty.

Now tell me when they've made a Mac version, and I'll be the first in line.
Sep 02, 2008 Snax_28 link
Fuck yeah, another Browser I get to bug fix for. Now if only IE would die a horrible death...
Sep 02, 2008 Suicidal Lemming link
Snax: Chrome uses WebKit, so it should render the same as Safari does. The only problem I can would be JavaScript since it uses its own engine.

I tried it out on my Windows partition, and I found it to execute JavaScript faster than any other browser I've tried. Add some polish and a Mac version, and it'll definitely be my main browser.
Sep 02, 2008 roguelazer link
Except it uses an ancient version of WebKit. And despite being "open source", there's a distinct lack of source.

I'll wait to see how WebKit+SquirrelFish works. And maybe Gecko+Tracemonkey.
Sep 03, 2008 Lord~spidey link
Chrome is incredibly fast.
Its pretty but the ui cannot be skinned or anything. :(
Sep 03, 2008 toshiro link
I want to see Chrome on OS X.
Sep 03, 2008 slime73 link
Sep 10, 2008 break19 link
slime, read some more:

"Right now, the Mac build is a work in progress that is much closer to the start than the finish. No application that renders web pages is generated at the end of these instructions!" like, right at the top of the page there. heh

It also only works on Intel macs

But I'm using it on my PC. Very nice.

What I think is odd tho.. it's built around WebKit, which is what Safari is, and Safari runs fine on Mac OS X, both PPC and Intel... soooo.. hmm