Many independent benchmarks agree that Chrome is fast. The Chrome browser has been developed from day one to be faster-faster start-up, faster page loading, faster search. Still, Mac OS X and Linux users have some things to look forward to as well. In addition to browser extensions, the initial beta release for Mac OS X is also lacking bookmark sync, bookmark manager, multitouch support, 64-bit compatibility, and Google Gears (which Google plans to replace with HTML5 support anyway). Extensions is one of a fairly extensive list of features and functions that were eliminated from the initial Mac OS X beta of the browser in order to bypass hurdles and get the software released before the end of 2009. Ironically, this is the same week that Google has unveiled extensions for the Windows version of Chrome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Google software engineers John Grabowski and Mike Pinkerton wrote in a blog post that the developers "focused on delivering rock-solid depth in a few critical areas for the browser, rather than a breadth of features that are rough around the edges." The Chrome developers were committed to creating a native Mac OS X application rather than just trying to port the Windows Chrome browser over to Mac.
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