{"id":70984,"date":"2009-12-08T11:44:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theappleblog.com\/?p=37276"},"modified":"2009-12-08T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:44:13","slug":"chrome-for-mac-beta-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/70984","title":{"rendered":"Chrome for Mac Beta Available Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-36809\" title=\"google chrome icon\" src=\"http:\/\/gigapple.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/google-chrome-icon.jpg?w=247&#038;h=247\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"247\" \/>The developer builds of late have been pretty stable, but now you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/\" >download the official Google Chrome for Mac Beta<\/a>. Released today, the Beta should offer Mac users a more stable browsing experience, one that hopefully is more representative of what the full release will eventually look like. It&#8217;s been a long time coming for us Mac users, but was the wait worth it?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try my best to use Chrome as my default browser for a decent length of time, in order to give it a fair shake. But I am a little worried about potential feature scarcity. As has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/11\/30\/chrome-for-mac-features\/\" >been reported before<\/a>, the Chrome beta is missing some things that its Windows counterpart offers. Below is a brief list of what&#8217;s been omitted, and why it worries me that some of these things aren&#8217;t there with this new beta. <span id=\"more-37276\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>App Mode:<\/strong> One of Chrome&#8217;s greatest strengths is its ability to create Fluid-like single site browser instances that work more like apps than websites. It&#8217;s great for Gmail, Google Docs, and any other web app that has its own dashboard, menus, etc. The option is there, it&#8217;s just grayed out for now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gears:<\/strong> I know Gears is dead in general, as per a recent announcement, but for now the existing implementation is much appreciated. I&#8217;d like to hold on to it as long as possible, pending HTML 5&#8217;s gradual rollout, but the Chrome Beta isn&#8217;t onboard.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multi-touch Gestures:<\/strong> Both the trackpad and the Magic Mouse&#8217;s multi-touch gestures won&#8217;t work in this beta of Chrome. That&#8217;s a big omission when you&#8217;ve become as dependent on multi-touch as I have, especially in terms of mobile computing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>64-bit Support:<\/strong> Chrome is 32-bit only, despite Snow Leopard&#8217;s focus on 64-bit performance. It&#8217;s not a major strike against it, since the browser is still blazingly fast in my experience, but it could become an issue down the road if Google doesn&#8217;t give its browser a bump up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are other things I&#8217;ve left off my list, like full-screen browsing, for the simple fact that I don&#8217;t use them that often and they probably won&#8217;t affect my experience. And despite my complaints about what isn&#8217;t in this beta, what is there is very impressive indeed. The speed with which Chrome renders pages never ceases to impress, no matter how many times I take the browser out for a spin on either Windows or Mac machines.<\/p>\n<p>Tabs also still do run as isolated processes, which is the major advantage Chrome brought to the table in the first place. Now when I have 57 tabs open across five windows on three screens, a badly coded Flash ad on one of them won&#8217;t force me to start fresh. 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Released today, the Beta should offer Mac users a more stable browsing experience, one that hopefully is more representative of what the full release will eventually look like. It&#8217;s been a long time coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}