Mike Pinkerton, co-creator of Camino and a developer on the Mac version of Google Chrome, has posted the first screenshot of Mac Chrome to his blog. 
One thing to note though is that the Chrome for Mac is still in progress and what you see in the above screenshot is the first webpage that Mike managed to load in the browser. The only thing that this browser can do currently is load web pages in the renderer processes and display them in tabs.
The team had managed to create new windows and tabs using the shared code, which allowed renderer processes to spawn/quit. Clicking (on anything) on the webpage doesn't work, and the renderers crash like nobody's business, but the other great thing is that the user interface is up and running!
With all those warnings, are you still wondering whats gonna happen if a tab crashes?
This is a good news for all Mac users to know that Chrome is indeed getting ready for Mac!
looks quite native on all OS's except maybe the buttons are the only thing out of place, another browser = good competition
Looking the same in all OS is a great plus for a browser
But I'll still subject others to the criticism. It's up to them to get me to use their product. If I feel they don't make the cut, I'll stick with what I'm already satisfied with.
Yep, I meant that general look
By the way, love the Chrome advertisement at the bottom of this thread. Priceless.
Opera has impressed me, actually, but only in terms if speed and rendering.
Opera has impressed me, actually, but only in terms if speed and rendering.
Opera impressed me too, but I am and have always been a loyal Firefox fan
Couldn't agree more; it looks very out of place. I'm sure it'll be fixed soon though
They are just building it now, and this + sign is what makes you feel so important? The fact that the browser is atleast rendering pages is a great plus!
It works for me, works every dev version I've tried.
It does work, I'm posting this from Chrome in Windows 7...
Nevermind the fact that Chrome is based on Webkit, which is the open source renering engine that Apple built off of the Konqueror code base to power Safari.
Chrome isn't particularly necessary, and it's certainly a far cry from manna from heaven. Safari is based on Webkit, and it's one of the most standrards compliant out there. Yet there are browsers out there which are nowhere near standards compliant, with problematic proprietary engines, that continue to hold the web back.
We already have an overabundance of browsers, quite a few of which we'll never try anyway.
We already have Firefox, Opera, Omniweb, Camino, Flock, Seamonkey, Shiira, iCab, and more. It's getting a bit crazy.
Last edited by LTD on 14 Feb 2009 - 19:27
I just had to make this comment because that's the first thing it came to mind...lol
Agreed that the Windows versions is more good-looking. Perhaps they will change it a bit before releasing it.
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