Where's Chrome for the Mac?
September 2nd 2008
Yesterday, Google unofficially announced Chrome, the search giant's entry in the browser sweepstakes. Today, the company made it official and also release a beta version for Windows users.
News.com has published preliminary JavaScript benchmark stats that show Chrome outperforms, by several orders of magnitude, the current top browsers--Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3.
That's all very well and fine, but when will Chrome for the Mac arrive? Apparently, not any time soon.
Amanda Walker, a software engineer at Google, writes on the Google Mac blog that it's still early days:
Right now, both are in the "pieces build and pass tests, but there's no Chromium application yet." While we're working hard and fast on catching up to the Windows version, we're not setting an artificial date for when they'll be ready--we simply can't predict enough to make a solid estimate, and we expect to learn a lot from the Windows public beta as well.
It could be months if not longer. Google products often stay in beta for years...
via Daring Fireball
