Google announces Chrome for Mac to be ready by year's end

More than 13 monthes since Google first introduced its professed game changing browser for Windows, the company has still to release a finished version of Chrome for the Mac. The company has, however, released an alpha - or "Developer preview" version of its browser for the mac. Google said that it expects to release a finished version of Chrome for the Mac by the end of this year, which will be an Intel-only version, that will work on Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later.
'A lot of very sophisticated people are using Macs now and we need to get a version of Chrome out for that, which we'll have in a couple of months,' explained Google CEO, and former Apple board member, Eric Schmidt recently.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin appeared at last month's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. During Q&A session, he revealed that he uses an alpha version of Chrome for the Mac, intended for developers, and revealed his dissatisfaction about the search giant's progress on supporting the Mac platform with the company's browser.
'I am using it. Anyone can. You have to go to a page that says you should't use it, but you should. To be fair, it's not as stable as I'd like it to be. The timing has been an issue. I'd be much happier if we launched at the same time [as the Windows version] or had a beta now. We are all suffering from this. I do use it a lot now, but it's somewhat unreliable,' said Brin.
'Be sure to read the Known Issues if you are running Chrome for Mac,' warns Google on its Chrome release page, which is available from googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/10/dev-channel-updated-with-fixes-and.html.
On the other hand, some early reviews have praised the developer version of Chorome for its fast performance on the Mac, even if its feature set is not yet complete.
Some pretty basic features like a bookmark manager are not yet included, for example.
On the other hand, chrome supports features like dragging and dropping tex straight into text editing applications, something which supposedly mature browsers, like Opera do not support.
Other new features over a previous not widely available version include support for printing and a QuickTime plug-in for enjoying multimedia content that now works.