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Sunday, December 20, 2009

just saw a Chrome commercial by Google

Looks like Google has revved up their advertising machine for their Chrome browser.

I just saw a commercial for it this evening. I tried out the new Mac-compatible beta out today. Fast and W3 standards compliant are how I would summarize my immediate positive impressions.

It seems to run as fast as the latest Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4. I have not run any benchmarks.

I am curious when Google is going to improve the support for native Mac UI features like Safari has. The Mac provides a system-wide Dictionary and other text processing services that set it apart from other operating systems. Adding support for them to Chrome will make it far more attractive to Mac users.

I am also curious about getting Java support.

In general, this is a most impressive first beta for a web browser to a new platform.

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posted by John Collins | 5:24 PM

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