Google Chrome for OS X now available. (Beta)

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stevenz

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#53213 9-Dec-2009 07:49

http://www.google.com/chrome

Bookmark manager is oddly disabled, but it seems to work very nicely. Quite snappy and looks like a "proper" OS X application.

1Password doesn't work with it yet, so I'll be sticking with Safari until it does. (Firefox has issues with a couple of sites I use or I'd use that instead).

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kaiwai

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#281068 10-Dec-2009 00:49

The attraction I have is the process separation - it does come at a price in terms of it being heavier with large numbers of tabs but it is a small price to pay for stability.

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wazzageek

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#281137 10-Dec-2009 10:51

I've switched to it, much, much faster than Safari (and Firefox) for the work I've been doing.

I really like the "porn" mode as well - it's really nice and obvious in which mode your in.

I must confess, I thought it had been just hype, but ... it really does seem to be working really well.

I've just found the developer tools, too. I'm impressed.

I imagine that this will become my default browser once the beta moniker is dropped.

macuser

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#281148 10-Dec-2009 11:09

Why not just use Webkit Nightly, I like knowing every couple of days I get an update to make it a wee bit faster :D

Add to that ClicktoFlash and you have one very fast and non resource hogging browser!

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#281155 10-Dec-2009 11:28

macuser: Why not just use Webkit Nightly, I like knowing every couple of days I get an update to make it a wee bit faster :D

Add to that ClicktoFlash and you have one very fast and non resource hogging browser!

Basically because I don't want to download a new update every single day ...

macuser

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#281158 10-Dec-2009 11:29

wazzageek:
macuser: Why not just use Webkit Nightly, I like knowing every couple of days I get an update to make it a wee bit faster :D

Add to that ClicktoFlash and you have one very fast and non resource hogging browser!

Basically because I don't want to download a new update every single day ...

They're like 5-10MB, but okay...The Geek must not be with you!! :P :P