Early Builds of Chromium Browser for the Mac Available
The Chromium web browser project which serves as the basis for Google's Chrome has started releasing early builds of the Mac version. While not complete, the builds work well enough to get an impression of the browser. CNet took a quick look at a build:
The software, available for download from the Chromium Web site, is incomplete and definitely buggy, as one would expect for a developer version that reflects all the latest changes programmers are making with the project. But for Mac users who've been clamoring for the software, I can tell you that overall, it works, and it shows glimmers of what I liked about the open-source browser on Windows.
The latest builds are kept in this directory in sequential order. If you are interested in testing it out, you should download the most recent build that you find. Updated builds are being added all the time.Top Rated Comments
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36 months ago
I might have to try this out. I love the Google Chrome browser for Windows, of course, I haven't used it since I started using Safari 4 Beta a couple months ago.
36 months ago
I would have been excited about this before christmas but now I am using Firefox I'll probably pass. Will give the final version a test run when it is ready.
36 months ago
Awesome, not better than safari 4 though.
Funny since Safari 4 basically copied Chrome. So much for innovation.
36 months ago
be interesting to see once plugins/extensions become available and what will happen to ad blocking type extensions.
36 months ago
Funny since Safari 4 basically copied Chrome. So much for innovation.
But Safari 4 is readily available and at a much more mature state that chromium/chrome is for Mac, so despite their similarities, I'd still take Safari 4 over Chrome right now; but seeing as I use neither because of the lack of a huge library of extensions, I'll stick with FF3 and FF3.5Beta4
36 months ago
I'd say too little too late. I'm tired of companies making us Mac users wait for simple things like a web browser while the Windows community gets it all first. We are almost into 2010, Macs are no longer toy to tinker with that nobody hardly uses, they are major player now and Apple is quite iconic. If certain companies want to continue doing this I will just use other Mac software. Safari 4 is great contender. ;)
36 months ago
yeah I was waiting for chrome.. but safari 4 works just as good I think..
so I will skip being ginnie pig
so I will skip being ginnie pig
36 months ago
Funny since Safari 4 basically copied Chrome. So much for innovation.
I wondered how long it would be before copyng claims were made. Any specifics points you would like to claim or just a blanket statment. Generally with os' browsers etc if a feature is good it will get absolved into all the other similar pieces of software.
Good to see progression on thhr Chrime front, taking longer than originally expected when google released the windows version. It will be interesting to see the final release and how it stacks up.
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