Is Google Chrome web browser beta now available for Mac users?”
General users can now download the public beta of Google Chrome for Mac, as the Web browser software was finally made available Tuesday. Chrome for Mac has been a long time coming, more than a year after its Windows counterpart first debuted in beta. Though it was originally intended to release in the first half of 2009, the product hit numerous delays. Google co-founder Sergey Brin admitted this year that Chrome’s absence on the Mac platform was an embarrassment for his company. The company worked to ensure that the beta version of the browser would reach a deadline of the end of 2009. The download, available direct from Google, is 17.6MB. It requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and only runs on Intel processors. “We’ve been working hard to deliver a first-class browser for the Mac — it took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it!” the development team said on its official blog. “We wanted Google Chrome to feel at home on the Mac, so we’ve focused on uniting our clean,
Google releases Chrome browser for Mac Google’s Chrome browser is finally available for the Mac. More than a year after the browser first launched, and many updates later, a link to download the Google Chrome browser went up Tuesday morning on the company blog. “it took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it!” wrote Chrome product manager Brian Rakowski on the blog. Chrome was developed as a leaner, faster way to get online, and Google’s speed tests say opening up websites in Chrome is quicker than on Firefox, Internet Exoplorer or Safari. We’ll leave it to you to decide if it enhances the Mac experience.
