Comments on: Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux

A new chapter in the browser's brief history begins as Google starts taking Chrome beyond Windows. Watch out for the missing features and 424 bugs, though.

[andreslucero]

Here's the link to the download page for anyone interested:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac

[xinnianhao]

Before you know it, Google Chrome will beat firefox and eventually IE. Chrome already beat opera. After extensions come out, it will surely beat Safari. After a few more months Chrome will have enough extensions to make everyone like it, and it'll beat firefox. After a few more years, Chrome's security and privacy issues are fixed and it takes over the browser world with a fascinating 98%.

[benjwah]

Does this crystal ball also pick stocks?

[htcstech]

You're a troll - and a bad one, so let's make you naive instead. Google/Chrome will NEVER have an Adblock extension/plugin. That will drive away millions of potential users.

[Software_Lover]

It has taken over as both my brother's and my own main browser. But i doubt it will beat Firefox. Maybe it will beat Internet Explorer once the rest of the world realizes that you could throw a dart at a list of Web Browsers and have that dart land on a better browser than Internet Explorer.

[dhavleak]

Chrome is pretty good software -- but it's not going to be immune to security issues. That particular magic bullet hasn't been invented yet.

The 'net will continue to evolve. We have no idea what things will look like 10 years from now.

[ssj4Gogeta1]

@htcstech: Google said that an adblock extension is one of the first in their priority.

[Shankland]

@htcstech @ssj4Gogeta1 Chrome team is working on the extensions framework, and the early version is available in rough form now if you enable it with a command-line switch. However, while Google did cite AdBlock Plus as one of the prominent examples of what it wants its extensions framework to support, Google hasn't to my knowledge said it's building that particular extension.

Google reveals Chrome extensions plan (December 2008)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10110247-2.html

Chrome extensions draw near... (May 2009)
http://news.cnet.com/chrome-extensions-draw-near-but-advanced-html-5-features-recede/

[exactlyy]

Chrome beating Firefox ??
can i know why ?? is it faster than Firefox ?? some ppl w'd say yes and a lot w'd say no , but whatever i'd not switch for the 2 miliseconds that chrome can load the page befor firefox.
does it have plugins ?? NO
does it have themes ?? NO
can u get the same chrome theme on firefox ?? YES
so even people who like chrome for its simple theme..they can have that on firefox and enjoy the millions themes and plugins that firefox got.
.. the only acceptable reason for anyone to switch from firefox to chrome is if they have stoned PC with less than 1 GB of RAM
but with 3-6 GB RAM ..firefox even starts faster than chrome .. you can open more tabs than you can do with chrome since it doesnt use as much resources as chrome uses after opening +6 Tabs..and it doesnt crash as much as chrome does..for me firefox never crashed .

[knowles2]

For Firefox always crashing
Way slower than chrome.

An that without Add ons.

And my computer has a pretty descent 3 gig worth of ram, and 2.6 dual core processor.

Firefox stand nowhere near chrome speed.

[pentest]

"@htcstech: Google said that an adblock extension is one of the first in their priority."

I call BS.

The only reason Chrome exists is to be a marketing tool.

[Dan Kegel]

Linux and Mac downloads at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel

[TheDrumThumper]

"Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software."

Am I wrong to think that this applies to every Micro$oft user?

[dhavleak]

Yes.

This was not intended as an insult to chrome developers. It was a quote (uttered by the chrome devs themselves) to set the expectation at the right level for a pre-beta release (developer preview).

[thelemurking]

That's funny, I rarely if ever see crashes on any of my Vista boxes... go be dumb elsewhere since apparently you are incapable of running an operating system without training wheels and a one button mouse.

[BtmnHatesRbn]

@thelemurking

You're a liar. I see Vi$ta crash and slug along all the time on people's computers. Most say they want to go back to 98 or XP.

Provide us proof that your XP with a Vi$ta skin doesn't crash before you make a claim so false that it makes Obama phony birth certificate look real.

[shellcodes_coder]

@BtmnHatesRbn: But did you managed to find out what caused it crash? Much of the Vista crashes are because of buggy third party drivers. Vista is damn stable!

[shellcodes_coder]

*manage

[FutureGuy]

@BtmnHatesRbn He needs to prove to you that his OS doesn't crash??? you define *********.
I have Vista running on 2 machines and Win7 on 1, I haven't got a blue screen on any of them.

[exactlyy]

microsoft ?? i dont know if u live in a cave or where exactly , i used winXP for 6 years , and it never crashed, vista also never crashed, and so far windows 7 is the best,fastest, and most advanced OS by microsoft and i belive its already better than all linux,MAC OS even tho its still in Beta .

[pentest]

The fact that you don't see a blue screen doesn't mean the POS is stable. It is just more stable than previous MS operating systems. It might match Linux with KDE circa 1998, although it is still lacking features that Linux has had for over a decade.

[jumpjetta]

@thelemurking In using vista, how do you discern a crash from its normal behavior of interrupting you EVERY FRACKING TIME you open anything? In my book even if it doesn't crash, it's no more productive if you have to stop and confirm/deny every mouseclick.

[shellcodes_coder]

As usual crap os x users are always late for good things. Hopefully Charlie Miller will have hard times exploiting it because he has already proved that EXPLOITS on Crap OS X just WORKS!! and is much easier to exploit than Windows Vista and 7

[BtmnHatesRbn]

You make-a no sense-a in your-a statement-a.

[Dalkorian]

I'm sorry the cops evicted you from under the overpass Shell. Trolls have to live somewhere!

[shellcodes_coder]

It really looks ugly in Mac OS X, but how ever looks really great on Vista and 7

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Are you are smoking serious crack. I know it's an insult and has the right to be deleted, but I just have to write it in response to the above statement.

[flickrz]

@BtmmHatesRbn: Why insult someone for expressing their opinion that takes a position opposite to yours? I agree with him/her that it looks ugly in Mac and needs some more work before it can come in for a day to day use

[solu1978]

downloaded on my macbook and so far its working fine.

[Mr. Dee]

Javascript performance is amazing in Chrome on Windows, puts IE 8 and Firefox 3.0.10 to shame.

[Shankland]

JavaScript on Firefox 3.5 gets a lot faster than in 3.0.x. Expect a release candidate in a week or two. I'm pretty impressed with Chrome's, though.

[knowles2]

I wonder if the release candidate will stop crashing. That be improvement on it own.

[goodspeed8701]

os x makes things looks ugly.

[BtmnHatesRbn]

And yet another idiot.

[FutureGuy]

@BtmnHatesRbn. Anyone not in agreement with you is an idot??? You are a troll, go away.

[kelmon]

Fair enough - I think I'll wait a while longer before kicking the tires on this one. The problem with Google, of course, is that everything seems to stick in "Beta" status even when it is perfectly usable. What would be nice is a revision to their status conventions so that normal users can recognise when a product is ready for general use.

[Sausagebiscuit]

Chrome on Windows hasn't been Beta in sometime now. It came out of beta in a short amount of time. Google's perception of Beta is different than mine and yours.

Having a Beta tag can same them from trouble I'd imagine too. Find a large bug, or other showstopper? It's still in beta.

But I agree, for what I have seen their beta products are pretty much stable and usable.

[pentest]

Better than MS's idea of what release quality is.

[ckh1272]

This is addressed to goodspeed8701, monkeyfun14, shellcodes_coder, and countless others:
If you hate Apple so much, why oh why, do continue to read articles about Apple and then put in your two cents worth of mostly non-sense. If I hate a particular company, then I am not going to waste my time reading and commenting about them just to stoke the fires! It just make any sense to act like a bunch of 12 year olds. Get a life people!! Stick to the subject at hand in a constructive manner or just move along. Having said all that, I will wait until the Chrome is a little more polished. It does look promising at least.

[solu1978]

@ ckh1272 .. chrome does look ugly on Mac .. I am posting this from chrome installed on my macbook.

[Sausagebiscuit]

... "Stick to the subject at hand in a constructive manner or just move along."

Ok, so I assume you don't? Why not just post your last sentence and left out all the rest instead of looking to provoke the people in your first sentence.

[shellcodes_coder]

Sausagebiscuit: LOL man

ckh1272: Dude that won't happen until and unless all those ignorant CrApple trolls continue to troll that's when Windows fan boys will come to the RESCUE!!

[shellcodes_coder]

"I will wait until the Chrome is a little more polished"
That means it's only gonna happen with the release of endangered os--snow leopard because finally you guys get a different color for dialog boxes--similar to that of Vista. That means you guys will finally get rid of that ugly grey color that can't be changed. By the way I can change and choose any color I want on Vista and 7 :)

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Listen to ckh1272. Are your lives so worthless that you troll CNET comments all day long at work? No wonder our Nation's in economic trouble. So, stop trolling CNET, turn off that LimeWire downloading your porn, MP3s, and new movies, stop the emulator running Final Fantasy VI for the SNES, and do some actual work at your desk for a change.

[Dalkorian]

by shellcodes_coder June 5, 2009 7:54 AM PDT
ckh1272: Dude that won't happen until and unless all those ignorant CrApple trolls continue to troll that's when Windows fan boys will come to the RESCUE!!

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ROFLMAO! Oh wow man, you *actually* believe that garbage, don't you? Don't worry, those pads on the walls are for your protection.

[exactlyy]

why in the world w'd anyone pay + $3000 for a logo ??
i'd rather buy 3 pc's which cost less than 3000$ , but not buy a MAC , which makes things look ugly , and cant be used for gaming ..and after all waiting for Microsoft to give your crap system a decent office .. most of the guys who come here to show their ignorance are the ones who baught MAC system and feel they were fooled , but instead of admiting it they try to act smart .

[rklrkl]

They really need to get this built for other Linux distros - the Debian/Ubuntu stuff doesn't play well with, for example, CentOS 5/RHEL 5. I'm a little bit surprised they haven't looked at packaging it up for RPM distros yet (yes, I used alien to convert the .deb file, but the system libraries linked against are very specific to Debian/Ubuntu).

[Sausagebiscuit]

Nothing stopping you from downloading the source and building it yourself if you MUST have it RIGHT now.

[lodup29]

Houston you have a problem when the "Report bug of broken website" doesn't work. Just tried it under Ubuntu. It's obviously faster than Firefox but I cannot figure out how simple things such as the latter (Report bug thing) or the home page setup don't work while complex things suck as rendering engines seem to work without a flaw. Still, I'm looking forward to the Beta release. I guess They'll have fixed those issues by then.

Anybody knows If they plan to integrate the tab bar within the title bar like they did with Windows?

[codynews]

That's cool that Google is trying to expand their browser to the 143 people that use linux and the 493 people that use a mac.

I say good for them!

Cody

[CredulousDolt]

does little cody have a full diaper?

[shellcodes_coder]

LOL. I agree with you :)

[shellcodes_coder]

By the way billions of Windows users are waiting for a better version of Chrome :)

[BtmnHatesRbn]

Well, the 143 Linux users and the 493 Mac users are ten times the audience that's HAPPILY using Vi$ta against their will right now.

Oh, and Apple's laptops and desktops out-sells Dell, HP, and others every quarter. So your statement is moot.

[exactlyy]

@ BtmnHatesRbn
"Oh, and Apple's laptops and desktops out-sells Dell, HP, and others every quarter. So your statement is moot"

maybe they just like the model , but the sad thing , ppl uninstall MAC and install windows right away lol and thats why MAC has less than 1.80 of the OS market share .. it just a poor product and i belive with windows 7 out OS X market share w'll drop below 0.50%

[pentest]

Wow, the worst MS shills I have ever seen are out in force today. Granted Dan, FutureBoy, and the rest of the regular shills are idiots but these guys make Dan look downright intelligent!

[karpenterskids]

Ahhhh...I want to download this so badly for my mac!

The knowledge that neither my youtube account nor my yahoo mail will work is a big deterrent, though.
Here's to hoping they create a fix for that in a month or two.

[Shankland]

No doubt Flash support is a high priority. Yahoo Mail might have to make changes on its end, perhaps a very minor one of updating its compatibility list, but I suspect you could bypass the problem with useragent spoofing, in which your browser tells a Web site it's actually a different browser to get past compatibility checks. I have no troubles using Yahoo Mail with Chrome on Windows.

[ArtInvent]

Don't really see much point in publicizing a dev. preview. It works pretty horribly. The beta might be worth looking at.

[dbloyd]

Google people! You would have had more than 1.8% browser market share had you ported to the Mac first. Mac people are more open about trying different things. This is a perfect example of how just looking at the Windows / Mac market share and porting to the larger platform doesn't always work. I would say that WordPerfect would sell more copies on Mac than Windows, Paint Shop Pro would sell more copies on Macs than on Windows, etc.

[CreativeMalcolm]

Why would Paint Shop Pro sell more copies? Pixelmator exists for OS X and is essentially 90% of what people use in Photoshop for like 60 bucks, but so far I haven't heard it having amazingly high sales numbers.

As far as trying to get another browser popular on the Mac, basically most hardcore Mac users are on Safari, most geeks who switched over from Windows are on Firefox... neither of those camps are likely to switch to Chrome. Safari practically is the same as Chrome for most things.

[bradenisme]

now if only it had flash support i would be happy.

[pentest]

No thank you, I like my Linux desktop spyware free.

[queticomn]

Chrome the spyware machine. Google will not implement adBlock, if google did implement adBlock it would be the same as google turning their back on its advertising partners, which then affects google's revenue source and bottom line.