Chrome for OS X - Too Little Too Late

It give us something very important so that the browser will stop to lock every minutes : Threaded tabs.

I’m not a big fan of chrome but I’d like to see this in Safari 4.

Very good point, i would have to say it is probably providing another option for those that don’t like the available browsers.

If Safari didn’t crash every time I tried to use it I would agree. Since it does, I welcome a new alternative.

Both Firefox and Safari are riddled with security holes when running on OSX. Some of the fault lies squarely on the OS, but it is nice that a more secure option is coming. If nothing else this might hold some other developers feet to the fire to tighten things up a bit.

I love chrome for the pc at work,but man why isn’t it out all ready for mac fans? like my self? BRING CHROME ALL READY!

Just use CrossOver Chromium (or perhaps not, if you actually want a decent working browser!)

Well, although Firefox and Safari are awesome and I use both of those (FF 3 and Safari 4) on my Mac, Chrome has multithreaded browsing. For example, If I’m on twitter, Gmail, and watching youtube videos, and youtube crashes or slows down, it won’t slow down my gmail and/or twitter page.

This is why I am waiting

I’m using Safari which is a great browser, I like the webkit engine over gecko. It’s faster and good. But I like Chrome way of manage each tab as a separate process.
And if they plan for extensions it’s something that Safari is missing.

Chrome for Mac - I’m just not that excited about it anymore and that might be because of Safari 4.

I would argue that it is not really worth it, as there are many issues with Chrome with their own apps. Search their own forums, and you will find that Gmail has issues loading in Chrome with some settings turned on.

I am a hardcore gogole fan. I use gmail, calendar, voice, reader, bookmarks, picasa, apps, docs so my next statement is hard to say, but needed. If they cannot make their own apps run 99.99% perfect in their own apps, why would I want to put it on my machine.

I am becoming a convert of Safari 4 as it is very fast. I still use Firefox for the majority of my browsing when doing dev work though for the plugins that help with everything. I wish that Safari allowed more extensions that were not hacks.

Anyway, Google hope you make the Chrome for firefox app a native app, and not some weak port just to get it out. I would be willing to wait. Remember though that you really got 2 powerhouses to compete with, and you better do it right first time around.

People that want the function of Chrome should look at Stainless browser. It can be a resource hog, as each tab is a new instance like Chrome.

Chris, I use Google’s Chrome almost exclusivly on my PCs and it is substantialy faster (in almost every respect) then both FF and Safari (Opera also but I don’t use it), it also renders better to the standard then FF, scoring higher on the acid3 test. Overall I’m extremely happy with chrome and look forward to being able to use it on my Mac.

I totally disagree with you. The new things that Chrome will
offer that other browser for OS X don’t have is the new Javascript engine (V8). Google developers completely rewrote the engine based on todays websites needs. Personally, on Windows, you can see the impact that V8 has made on this browser.

I have to agree, I tried the Safari 4 beta, and i was immensely better than Safari 3. However, I’m once again back to Firefox because it just does everything (mainly has loads of web dev plugins, firebug FTW). And Chrome will most likely be like this, at least on the initial release. If they could somehow surpass Firefox as a development tool, then I’m sold. I can see the JavaScript engine as a plus though, but it depends on how much better it is.

isn’t chrome all about V8, regardless of platform?
if and when cloud computing takes off, and assuming webapps are still chained to javascript it’s present form, chrome is purportedly supposed to see the same sort of growth.

but then again, i’ve not seen the level of javascript performance increase on chrome windows that other people are supposedly seeing which just brings us back to the same question that you’re asking here. (talk about a pointless comment:)

Chrome is running tabs separately, and allow the simplicity of dragging a tab out of the tab bar to create a new window, neither of which is a feature that Safari nor Firefox currently have. I look forward to it becoming a standard, as tabs has over the years.

To be honest, I don’t use Chrome just because of the lack of plugins in comparison to Firefox, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy some of the brand new features it has brought to the table.

I think that the interface of the OS X version looks ugly, and I don’t think that the browser is really functional either.

I mean: it is pretty stable, but that is where it stops for me.

Unless it gives me substantially more than FF gives me I’m not even looking @ Chrome - I don’t like the windows version at all and there’s nothing inspiring me to use it on the windows machines at school.

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I am a big fan of Safari. And the number 4 made even more steps into the future who I did not expect. I have Firefox on my Mac, for some things not running perfectly into Safari. But I filed that to the Apple feedback and maybe they take it serious if some other users like me have the same idea to get payed attention of it.

In Parallels I’ve tested the Google Chrome on a Windows XP. That is running great and there is nothing really comparable like it - especially in speed.

BUT, Google installs the Google Updater with every of their own apps. I don’t want that! That must be optional and possible to get deactivated without tricks! The same is on the Mac platform.

Conclusion:
Even if Google spies, it would spread Webkit which would be a great development for the Web 2.0. I hate it to make sites running in IE.

On the Mac there’s no need. Safari does it all. (ok, threaded tabs are cool, but Apple is not sleeping and I had no nameworthly crash that would it make such neccessary).

It’s all about the threads, man. When I get busy browsing the internet, I have a few windows open with several tabs in each, and many of them tend to stay open for a few days, either for repeated reference or just to hang on until I get around to reading it.

About weekly, some web page or other will get a little confused and lock up, sending all of my Safari windows into beachball-mode. I can usually force-quit and then have the new run of Safari “Reopen All Windows From Last Session”, but about half the time that also reopens the page with the problem which will eventually lock up again, so I have to check all the tabs of all the windows to close any that I suspect may have been the culprit to prevent a recurrence of the beachball.

Safari with process-per-tab and I’ll be happy. Until then, Chrome has my interest.

BTW, Skorpeyon, Safari does let you drag tabs out of the tab bar to make new windows or to move them to other extant windows.