Google Chrome for Mac is so cool, now finish it!

The Chrome team has released a developers copy of the browser for Mac and Linux, so far Google Chrome has just been available for Windows.

While to call me a developer would be a gross misuse of the term, I’ve been using the browser ever since it was released last week.  It is so cool.  Well actually so fast!

The team admits it’s far from finished.  Among other things, it doesn’t print, it doesn’t display YouTube-like videos and there seems to be not much in the way of bookmark management.  So let’s give it a number and say it’s 75% done. What it does well is render a web page really fast and when I’m digging around the web that’s what’s most important to me.

The Chronium Blog warns you not to download this version unless “take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.

How incomplete? So incomplete that, among other things , you won’t yet be able to view YouTube videos, change your privacy settings, set your default search provider, or even print.”

It hasn’t crashed for me in about 20 hours of use.  The only gotcha for me was when checking a blog post and panicking when I couldn’t see the YouTube video, but I had been warned.

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Anway, if you live life on the bleeding edge and are so Type A that anything faster is better, download the browser and give it a try on Mac or Linux.

As for me?  I’ll probably use it for most of my work on my slight aging Macbook because it just makes the experience so darn fast!

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Google Chrome browser gets better

In the good tool gets gooder department, today we have a new update to Google’s Chrome browser. With the new update comes a few new features which include:

New Tab Page Improved: The New Tab page in Chrome, by default, shows large thumbnails of your most visited sites to help you navigate quickly to them. That’s normally pretty helpful and cool, as long as one of the sites you visit often isn’t one that you would just as soon people not know about, like say Perez Hilton. Now on the tab page you have the ability to delete sites that you’d just as soon not have the boss or the mate know that you thaaat much.

Full Screen Mode: Google Chrome, by it’s minimalism, by default, gives you plenty of room to view your web page. Sometimes you just want a little more. Now by toggling F11 key there is a full-screen mode to use every pixel available.

Form Autofill: The browser now, also has, Form Autofill so that as you fill out web forms, previous information that you have entered is added to forms automatically. Stored information can be cleared out from the tools menu.

Okay, now you can say, that’s nice but not very exciting, all browsers do that kind of stuff. Probably the most significant changes to Google Chrome is under the hood. Over 300 bugs that caused crashes have been fixed. Probably the most important to me, the reason I use Google Chrome, the fastest browser has gotten 30% faster.

If you’re already using Google Chrome, it will update automatically — if you want to give it a try, install it from google.com/chrome.

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