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Chrome — a web or internet browser developed by Google and was based on a open-source webkit bassed browser, codename Chromium. Among the famous internet browser such as Safari, Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer (Windows only), Chrome pops from Google and manage to reside on people computer, except Mac.

Chrome was known as one of the fastest Javascript engin available, the V8. Moreover, Chrome was also known as the first browser with independent Tab-Processing, unlike the others. This concept protects other active tabs if in any case one of the tab producing error or hangs.

You can read more about Chrome over here, or read their comic based explanation over here. I suggest you the comic book.

Back to my topic, for the time being, Chrome only available for Windows based operating system, and not Mac or Linux. However, the foundation project of Chrome, codename Chromium has a solution for Mac or Linux. Sorf of. Because this build is currently under constructions and available as Alpha Build. This means that it is very unstable and not recomended for production usage.

How to get Chromium for Mac

To get Chromium, the download link does not reside on the Chrome download page because this is a developers build, means that it is not available for normal user. Therefore, the download available at Chromium developer’s link, located at

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/.

Click on the link, and it will bring you to a simple directory which looks like the image below.

Next, click on the link entitled chromium-rel-mac. This folder is where all the latest build of Chromium Mac resides. Once you’re inside the folder, scroll to the bottom of the listed build. That is the latest build for Chromium Mac.

Within the latest build folder, there will be two (2) files, changelog.xml and chrome-mac.zip. Download the chrome-mac.zip. Once the download has finished, extract the zip file and you will have you Chromium.app. Drag the application file to your Application folder.

Now, you’re done and you can start testing Chrome-like browser on your Mac! However, there will be certain limitation and bugs.

So far, these are the limitations and bugs I manage to take note:
1. No flash player
2. Lightview Plus plugin does not work (Scriptaculous.js? Prototype.js?)
3. PopUp Window issue. The tab relocated in the middle of the window. Haha.
4. Download file icon. The Icon seems not to scale down according to what it supposed to do. Anyhoo, the download works fine.

For Windows user, you can download Chrome from here.

Overall, it is freaking sleek, simple and high speed on page rendering. Totally awesome! Chrome for Mac, where are you?!

Note : This entry was written using Chromium, and everything seems to works fine, except the Flash Upload because no Flash Player detected.