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Jeff Campbell
12-09-2009, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/article/144902/2009/12/chrome_beta.html?lsrc=nl_mwnws_h_crawl' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/article/144...l_mwnws_h_crawl</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"As promised, the Google Chrome for Mac beta has just made it in under the wire for a 2009 release. Of course, it's still just a beta, not a first release-and, as we know, it's missing some features-but it's a step beyond what we've seen so far."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/zt/auto/1259605718.usr105634.jpg" /></p><p>A little over a week ago we posted a <a href="http://forums.thoughtsmedia.com/f386/google-chrome-mac-soon-96084.html" target="_blank">report</a> that said it was coming out soon, and now it has. Google Chrome for Mac Beta is now <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome" target="_blank">available for download</a>. The download is 17.6MB and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later as well as an Intel processor.&nbsp;</p>

doogald
12-09-2009, 06:01 PM
I was playing with it a bit yesterday. It's very fast, I love the fact that each tab is a separate process, which is released when you close the tab (no more looking at Activity Monitor to see that Safari or Firefox, after running a while, is still taking up 450 MB RAM with a single tab open). However, it's pretty feature-restricted for now. I'll be more interested when it supports extensibility (particularly 1Password, though they have a workaround), bookmark management/syncing with xmarks, etc.