Download Google Chrome for Mac OS X & Linux

This is some great news for Mac and Linux users!

i keep learning about more and more little advantages and quirks with Chrome, with security, for example; now if only they would take care of it’s cookie management glitches…

This is great, too bad it is just running on top of windows libraries. I will download it later today! (oh and it is probably intel only)!

I am on Mac and Crossover Chromium is dissappointing.
Waiting for Google to release official version of Chrome for Mac.

Hey Amit,

That Ubuntu install needs updating ;)

it’s funny, the more i use Chrome (for windows), the more unstable it seems to get… crashes a lot more, can’t handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab… all that to say, i’m switching back to Firefox

Interested in it,it is said that chrome is the fastest explorer.

It’s hardly native. It’s using Wine, so it’s pretty much Windows, but crappier. I’m hanging out for the real native version.

“it’s funny, the more i use Chrome (for windows), the more unstable it seems to get… crashes a lot more, can’t handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab… all that to say, i’m switching back to Firefox

Written by movie fan on 09.20.08″

That’s weird, I haven’t had a single issue with chrome yet. I’ve used it on XP, XP 64, Vista, and Vista 64, and it seems to be even more stable than Firefox on all of them. Hence Chrome = default browser. The only minor issue i’ve had with chrome is that some flash movie players will not let you use the movie controls when full screen, but then again I get the same thing in Safari so maybe it is a Webkit thing?

This is really slow even with 4GB of RAM. Its faster running in VMWare. Nice try though…almost had me fooled.

I installed Crossover Chromium in Ubuntu about 2 minutes ago, and I am about to remove it as soon as I’m done typing this message. The site alludes to the “expertise” of the Wine team; I can tell. This runs about as terribly as Wine.

Now I’m waiting for the inevitable delusional post, in which someone claims that this runs faster than Chrome in Windows.

Works ok on my macbook Black Intel. There is no incognito window and it is in the windows xp style theme not the vista aero theme. On my desktop pc I use chrome for everything except link for some reason it will not work on apples email site?? It is still in beta and having 1% of the market and still being in beta on 1 operating system is a pretty amazing accomplishment for Google. Hopefully they come out with the final version soon for all platforms!

@d2burke:

They clearly say on their site that it was made with wine and that it should not be used as a primary browser but to just use it and see whats possible. It’s something I’m sure they worked hard on and it is interesting what they have done. Give them a break

wow! it runs faster on my mac than on windows..I can hardly belive it. ..I just had to pinch myself.

This is a piece of shit. I tried it on leopard. Its crappy and crashed the first time i used it. It crashed even when i restarted it so i droped in my trash. I will wait until google will release the mac version. Peace!

i want to know when they are going to finally get the google chrome for the mac i have it on my work computer and it is great now i want it for my personal computer

I’ve used chrome on Win XP, its great, but one thing, when i sign in into my hotmail account it doesn’t work properly, i can’t even click to open any of my emails !!!

where is chrome for linux, i just see chrome for mac?

Who cares about Linux!! This is great for mac! get a real operating system anyway

Ok…. so i have mac osx, windows xp pro, and linux installed on my mac book pro….. and i must say who ever is saying that the mac operating system “a real operating system.” is not the most knowledgeable (trying to say that in the nicest way possible). Each operating system has their own advantages. In my opinion yes the mac operating system is the smoothest but the windows and Linux also have their own very useful purposes. Chrome is good for EVERYONE!

ive just used it on windows and it works great. it were very fast (except sites which u have to use flash) and it never crashed. what a pitty that crossover aint to handle on non-intel systems. so i cant use it here on my old mac.

nevertheless, great browser, i hope it will work on non-intel-macs soon.

Who needs chrome for Mac? Mac already has the best browser out there.

This Chromium is a bullcrap. Nice try though… but if these dudes wanted to port it to linux, they should have PORT it, not emulate with wine. Jeez, runs so much slower than iceweasel or opera. On my vista box chrome beats any application in terms of startup time and performance, but this one on linux… no way! I’ll wait for the google guys to release the native linux version. I hoped it would be released by now though. And i hope it’s not gonna be one of those 2nd class projects (someone mentioned the skype crap… yeah, skype is crap on linux, indeed) because i think the google guys are on the side of oss (unlike those skype jerks who’re lagging 2 years behind with the linux version).

Ah well, to all of you that said that this piece of work was bullcrap or shit or whatever, I agree with you. However, I think that you need to rethink what you’re saying. This isn’t an official release; it never even went through an Alpha and Beta stage. So don’t blame them. Good try anyway, but I’ll probably use Firefox and then show Chrome on Mac to my friends. Heh!

i do not understand. is google chrome browser for mac separate from google crossover. i have new leopard desktop and laptop. chromium crashes on both of them. whenever it is restarted it says it wasn’t closed right. i just had the desktop maintained at the apple bar and leopard reinstalled. same thing still happens. now I am worried that because I merely dragged the app file into the trash that it may still be lurking in the background.

Well, I tried the crossover version of Chrome on my iMac - definitely not ready for prime time!
What I liked:
Very fast
clean interface

What I don’t like:
No bookmarks panel (should at least be an option)
No Google search window! Ridiculous - all their competitors have a Google search window right there, but in Chrome, I have to go to the Google site!
Ugly as hell in this crossover version. I’d forgotten how crude Windoze looks until I was looking at Chrome on my iMac’s screen (and I use Windoze all day at work).
Tried to download a new version of Flash (the one currently on my iMac works fine in Safari, FF and Opera, but not in Chrome) and it acted like it downloaded it to a folder called “Chromium” but that folder doesn’t exist on my Mac! So I can pretend to download Flash but it’s not really there on my machine. Very strange!

Guess I’ll try it again when the real Mac version comes out - it should look and act much better, I hope!

salgud -
Chrome doesn’t need a Google search window. You just type what you are searching for in the address bar. It distinguishes searches from website addresses automatically.

With that said, I liked the speed of Chrome and the simplicity of the graphical aspect of it, but I, too, had my problems (albeit small). I have only used it on Windows. I will have to try it on Ubuntu.