More than one month ago I reported that a developer (follow him on Twitter for more) was compiling and releasing the first pre-alpha builds of Google Chrome for Mac. It is Chromium, actually, the open source project behind Chrome, same as Chrome aside for the brand.
Google also started to make official pre-alpha builds available for testing and available here. A new feature is being added weekly and the main weakness I found so far is the lack of Flash support, that will be added later.
That said, despite I cannot use any flash content (YouTube videos, for instance), Google Chromium for Mac just became my favorite browser and I’m sticking with it for my daily browsing. There are lots of features missed, but it works far better than other popular and stable browsers.
1) Speed
Impressive speed, you can see with your eyes how faster Chromium for Mac is compared to Safari 4 or Firefox. Loading time of the browser itseld is also far better then the others.
2) Footprint
It rarely hits 180MB of RAM used (against 300 to 500 by Firefox or Safari), even if with many tabs open. Moreover, Chrome uses a separate process for each tab so the overall stability of the browser is much higher than the others and any issue affecting a tab/site doesn’t affect the others.
3) Usability
This point is not easy to explain, just use it and you’ll realize how better this browser is from the competitors.
Many not functional features reported previously are now working fine and the overall stability of the system is definitely much higher than the first time I tried it.
Is Google Chrome going to become the #1 browser for MacOSX? What do you think? Please leave your comments and participate in the discussion.
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