Zach Spear, Apple Insider
Mac users will get their first taste of a Google-developed alternative to incumbent browsers such as Safari and Firefox when the search giant releases Chrome for Mac sometime during the "first half" of this year.
A recent report from CNET News.com includes a conversation with Chrome product manager Brian Radowski, who provided an update on the development of Chrome for Mac and Linux, which will soon join the already-operational Windows version.
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Showing signs that it’s working to meet requests for new developments to its Chrome browser, Google on Friday said it hopes to release versions for Mac OS X and Linux by the first half of the year, and it released a new version Wednesday that paves the way for the most requested feature: extensions.
Google has high hopes for Chrome–in particular, the Internet giant wants better performance, so browsing the Web is faster and Web-based applications are more powerful. Now Google is filling in some missing pieces Chrome needs in order to attain wider usage.
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.
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Google has begun pre-beta trials for Chrome 2.0. The focus of Chrome 2.0 is on the implementation of a number of new features, including some key features missing from the first version. In addition, some bug fixes and security updates have been made as well.
Updates to the Chrome browser include the addition of form auto complete (one of the features most obviously missing from the initial release that lets Chrome remember what has been typed into fields on Web pages), full-page zoom, spell checking improvements, and auto-scrolling.
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Google fanatics rejoice! Google has announced that they are ready to take the training wheels off their newest baby, the Chrome web browser, and send it out to make its way in the world. Damn kids grow up so fast, don’t they? The news comes just 14 weeks after the Beta version of Chrome went online, a dramatic change in testing policy for a company that has been known to keep their other inventions, such as Gmail, in the Beta stage for years. (more…)
