• Get more done with the new Google Chrome. A more simple, secure, and faster web browser than ever, with Google’s smarts built-in.
• Microsoft recently launched its Chromium-based Edge browser on macOS. That was exciting news, because in a world where it’s hard to compete against the absolute behemoth that Chrome is, and thanks to the fact that most developers code websites to a browser and that browser is often Chrome, it’s difficult to use a browser that’s, well, not Chrome.
• Chrome 87 boasts a big speed boost and a revamped UI for the browser's PDF viewer and a native version for new M1-powered Macs. MacBook Pro and Mac Mini. (Other than Apple's own Safari, Chrome.

Sorry for the long delay in updates. There were three reasons for it

Google Chrome for Mac. Safari does a pretty good job as a default Mac browser, but is it worth experimenting with Google’s option instead? In the past, Google has irked Mac users by making its browser automatically log into Google accounts, and providing unwanted notifications on other parts of macOS. Under the hood, Chrome has some awesome features that make it very developer friendly: hardware acceleration for rendering 3D CSS effects, Google's own NaCl (Native Client) that allows secure.

1. Traveled a lot and hence had work piled up.
2. Free time was sucked into creating www.celebsutra.com
3. Whenever I checked, chrome had made only incremental improvements but there were always bugs which made using it painful.
   • Using flash spiked the CPU usage of chrome to 100% making the Macbook run hot. This issue is still present but is not as bad as before. But do keep a watch on your CPU usage when using chrome.
   • Importing settings from Firefox never worked. I have a lot of bookmarks/bookmarklets in Firefox without which my daily browsing would be a lot more difficult.

Installation

The chrome version I used was the first build that I could use as a daily browser. You should ideally clear your Chromium Profile if you want to decrease the chances of encountering bugs. Execute this command from Terminal

rm -rf ~/Library/Application Support/Chromium/

Make sure not to make any mistake while typing this. rm -rf command is quite powerful and can wipe out data if you are not careful. If you are not comfortable with the command line, then using finder go to Your Home Directory -> Library -> Application Support and delete the Chromium folder inside that. There are two Library folders. Make sure you are using the one in your home directory.

Once chrome starts it asks whether you want to import settings from the browsers installed in your system which in my case was Firefox and safari. Choosing Firefox caused chrome to prompt me to close all Firefox windows so that chrome can go ahead with the import. Once I had done that the import went smoothly.Having Firefox running was probably why the previous imports were not successful. But chrome never warned me before!

For those in the know, this is actually a review of Chromium and not Chrome but since many get confused by the concept of Chromium, I have decided to use the name Chrome throughout. For those not in the know, Chromium is unbranded Google Chrome.

Is Chrome Good On Mac

Bookmarks

Chrome For Apple Mac

All the bookmarks, bookmarklets and bookmark folders were imported correctly. But chrome still lacks a full-fledged bookmark manager. You can create folders and add bookmarks into it on the bookmarks bar but saving bookmarks outside of the bookmarks bar was not possible. Keyword searches were also imported successfully from Firefox and added to the Bookmarks->Other Bookmarks -> keywords menu. I use only the bookmark bar for bookmarks and use delicious for bookmarks which are not often used. So for my style of use, chrome's bookmark functionality is perfectly fine.Favicons are also enabled for bookmarks.

Print

Print has been recently enabled on the mac builds. Since I don't have a printer at hand to actually test the printing capability, I did the next best thing - I saved the page as a PDF from the print dialog. PDFs generated by Firefox and Chrome were identical and this is one of my most used features in Firefox and I'm glad it is working perfectly in Chrome (I used the functionality to save PDF copies of online receipts)

Preferences

The preference pane of Chrome has been hooked up almost completely. Only some preferences in 'Under the hood' remain unavailable. You can set homepage preferences, download preferences and others. Chrome offers to save passwords and the passwords are stored in your OS X Keychain. But on clicking 'Show saved passwords' Chrome merely opens the Keychain application and leaves the user to find out the relevant passwords. Other than this glitch, saving passwords is a smooth experience and the functionality is similar to Firefox, where a non-modal pops up on the top of the site asking you to save the password.

Downloading

It is a pleasure to watch something download in Chrome. Instead of just showing download stats or even a progress bar, Chrome has implemented a progress pie (I just invented that).

Once the download finished the pie flashes.You can view all your downloads at Window -> Downloads. This page also shows your ongoing downloads which can be paused or cancelled. The download items can be searched for and if you want you can also permanently remove them from the list.

Speed

Though many features have been added to Chrome recently, it remains as snappy as ever. Launching Chrome takes less than 2.0 seconds on this two year old macbook (2GHz, 2GB Ram). Every operation, whether it is opening a new tab, scrolling a page or adding bookmarks happen without any lag. The javascript performance of Chrome has always been ahead of its competitors. I haven't had a chance to test Chrome against newer releases of Safari or Firefox but Chrome's javascript performance is always improving. It is the only browser in which google wave was a snappy application. Google wave made Firefox 3.5 crawl and beg for mercy and taxed Safari 4.0.1 but Chrome nightly didn't miss a step :).

New Tab Page

Chrome's new tab page is super customizable.It shows you the thumbnails of most visited sites and also a 'Recently closed' section from which you can recover a closed tab. The thumbnails can be rearranged, deleted, pinned down (so that it is always stays in view) or be shown as a list of links.The new tab page also offers tips on using Chrome and clicking on the lower right corner will open the themes page.

Themes page

Chrome has supported themes for sometime now. When themes were first introduced applying a theme in Mac chrome sometimes made the browser unbearably slow.I'm happy to report that it is no longer the case. The whole experience of adding themes is smooth and if you think you want to stick to the default one after experimentation, you can always reset the theme to default from the Preferences pane.

Miscellaneous

Chrome includes a modified version of the Webkit Web Inspector. (View -> Developer -> Developer Tools). It works in general but since I'm not familiar with the web inspector, I do not know how much they differ and how they differ. A cool feature of Chrome which I wish the other browsers copied is the full screen mode (View -> Fullscreen). It hides everything but the web page and is great for distraction free reading. Though Chrome is still a work in progress, its stability has markedly improved and I didn't experience a single crash (of the browser or plugins) during my moderate usage.

Incognito (Private Browsing)

Incognito or Private Browsing(File -> New Incognito Window) is a well thought out feature of Chrome. In Firefox if choose private browsing, it will close all your existing tabs and open a private browser window. There is no visual clue except title bar text which makes it clear to the user that the browser is in private mode. Safari's implementation is worse. There is absolutely no indication (visual or textual) as to which mode the browser is in and your existing tabs remain when you go private. I have no idea whether safari treats them as part of private mode from then onwards or exempts them.

In chrome, you can mix private mode and normal mode as the mode is per window rather than for the entire browser. Also a window in incognito mode is visually distinct making it very easy to identify. All in all, chrome's implementation of private browsing is top of the class.

Extensions

Extensions are enabled by default in the nightly builds. So you can install extensions without needing to provide a commandline switch to Chrome. Extensions is right now now my least favourite part about Chrome. Extensions in chrome do not hold a handle to Firefox extensions mostly because the extension system in Chrome is not as powerful as that of Firefox. Part of the blame also lies in the fact that, chrome extension platform is very new and haven't matured yet.

What is remaining?

Google Chrome For Mac Reviews

Task manager which lets you see the resource usage of plugins and Chrome processes have not been implemented yet. Work has started on implementing about:memory which will show you memory usage information of the Chrome processes but no information is presented to the user as of now. about:network which shows network statistics is also not implemented.

Verdict

Microsoft office for mac 2013 download. Google Chrome for Mac is almost ready. There are no major pain points which can prevent a normal user from using it as primary browser.A power user or someone who uses a lot of Firefox extensions still might find Chrome lacking but the speed almost makes up for it!

The Google Chrome browser is now available as an Apple M1 native application, for those of you lucky enough to have M1 Mac Mini, Macbook Air, or Macbook Pro systems. (If you've been living under a rock for the last few weeks, the M1 is Apple's newest in-house-designed ARM silicon, which the company began selling in traditional form-factor laptops and Mac Minis for the first time this week.)

Google presents Chrome for download as either an x86_64 package or an M1 native option—which comes across as a little odd, since the M1 native version is actually a universal binary, which works on either M1 or traditional Intel Macs. Presumably, Google is pushing separate downloads due to the much smaller file size necessary for the x86_64-only package—the universal binary contains both x86_64 and ARM applications, and weighs in at 165MiB to the Intel-only package's 96MiB.

Performance

In our earlier testing, we declared that the previous version of Google Chrome—which was available only as an x86_64 binary and needed to be run using Rosetta 2—was perfectly fine. That was and still is a true statement; we find it difficult to believe anyone using the non-native binary for Chrome under an M1 machine would find it 'slow.' That said, Google's newer, ARM-native .dmg is available today, and—as expected—it's significantly faster if you're doing something complicated enough in your browser to notice.

Is Google Chrome Ok For Mac

The first benchmark in our gallery above, Speedometer, is the most prosaic—the only thing it does is populate lists of menu items, over and over, using a different Web-application framework each time. This is probably the most relevant benchmark of the three for 'regular webpage,' if such a thing exists. Speedometer shows a massive advantage for M1 silicon running natively, whether Safari or Chrome; Chrome x86_64 run through Rosetta2 is inconsequentially slower than Chrome running on a brand-new HP EliteBook with Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U CPU.

Chrome For Mac Version

Advertisement

Download Chrome In Mac

Jetstream2 is the broadest of the three benchmarks and includes workloads for data sorting, regular expression parsing, graphic ray tracing, and more. This is the closest thing to a 'traditional' outside-the-browser benchmark and is the most relevant for general Web applications of all kinds—particularly heavy office applications such as spreadsheets with tons of columns, rows, and formulae but also graphic editors with local rather than cloud processing. Chrome x86_64 under Rosetta2 takes a significant back seat to everything else here—though we want to again stress that it does not feel at all slow and would perform quite well compared to nearly any other system.

Download Chrome For Mac Pro

Finally, MotionMark 1.1 measures complex graphic animation techniques in-browser and nothing else. Safari enjoys an absolutely crushing advantage on this test, more than doubling even M1-native Chrome's performance. The Apple M1's GPU prowess also has an inordinate impact on these test results, with Chrome both native and x86_64 translated on the M1 outrunning Chrome on the Ryzen 7 Pro 4750U powered HP EliteBook.