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Google Chrome
September 4 2008, 8:21am
It was a case of good news/bad news:Good news: The story came out that Google Chrome was released. A web browser built by Google? Sign me up!Bad news: It's being released while still in beta. I've been using Gmail for three years, and it's still in beta, too. (Note: the article I just linked to is almost a year and a half old.) A finished product may or may not ever be in the future.Good news: There's a really nifty comic-book introduction to the design and features of Google Chrome. Extremely awesome! Bad news: I went to the web page, and, like everything else in this world, Google Chrome is Windows-only. My smile faded quickly.Good news: Ars Technica pointed out that one of the developers behind Google Chrome is that the founder and one of the lead developers for the Camino browser, my personal Mac browser-of-choice. He has proclaimed his intention to make a Mac-native awesome-tacular version of Chrome.Bad news: While the plans for the next version of Camino are still intact, the future for it has gotten a lot murkier with the lead developer switching to working on Chrome. So, while I'm looking forward to maybe one day trying out Google Chrome on my Mac, it's a mixed blessing. Resources are leaving an already-awesome piece of software (one that I use and abuse daily) and headed towards something that I can't even use yet made by a company that has a bunch of cool products that they may or may not ever finish. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
