Google Chrome Beta Builds

There's mad kids in the one. Oh, what am I doing? I'm just trying out Google Chrome for the Mac. Um, so if you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm using Google Chrome. You know that Google Chrome probably hasn't come out for the Mac yet as of when I'm posting this video, but Google has been posting the latest builds of this wonderful web browser to a website directory. This is called Chromium for the Mac.

Right now, it's actually pretty good, and I'm getting a glimpse at it right now. So I'm just going to be quickly showing you how to use Safari to download and test out Google Chromium. Okay, so first of all, you want to open up your Safari or Firefox web browser. You can also use any web browser of your choice, or you can use wget. Anyway, that's irrelevant. You just want to download, um, go to a file: HTTP build.chromium.org buildbot snapshot sub-Dash rail-Dash Mac and Slash.

This is a directory listing of all their builds, so you want to scroll to the bottom. The highest number is the latest build, so I'll click that. If you take a look, there's a text file at the bottom called latest that has the latest build. So I'll just click the one, the folder at the exact bottom. And so here's the log of everything that's changed. Um, here we go. It just gives you a brief summary, and it's kind of not readable to humans.

So yeah, but here's the zip. So we're just going to download it. It'll take two seconds to download, maybe a little more. So here we go. So here it is. I'll unzip it now. There's a folder called Chrome Mac, and as you can see, there's only one thing in there. You can just copy this over to your applications. It'll work fine.

If you open this up, here's Google Chrome. You can go to apple.com. It's a little slower than Safari, and the tab thing at the top looks a lot like it did on Safari, except much, much different in a few subtle ways. The add buttons over here and not over here. Um, you take a look when you used crossover to run Chrome; it didn't let you do this, but now it does.

The highlight color is your default highlight code, so I believe this is written with Cocoa in Objective C, and I think this is very nice. It's not as fast as Safari, in my opinion. I tested it, but it uses WebKit just like Safari does, so it should be just as fast. I'll know exactly why it's not. Maybe it's doing a little sleep or something, but that's kind of frustrating.

But it's a decent browser. I mean, it handles Flash fine. You know, in fact, it does this whole Magic Window thing where you grab a tab, it turns transparent. I don't even know how to do that. Well, I might be able to figure it out, but I don't know how to do it off the top of my head.

So, um, here they have the menu bar at the top. Unlike they did when you were using crossover, there aren't that many options because on the Windows version, they don't have to support the menu bar. But on the Mac, they have to always have a menu bar. So normally, this would bring up the options, but on a Mac, they have to use the menu bar because there's no way to make it not there.

You can obviously view the source code. It opens a new tab with the source code, and you can go to, like, about tabs. Let's see if this works. No, it's empty, so they didn't think that through very well. So I'll just close this.

So that's Google Chrome. I know a bunch of people have been eagerly waiting for it to come out. Well, it hasn't come out yet, but it will be out soon. So, thanks for watching, my kids. You should check out Google Chrome because it's a really great app, even when it's in beta and it's only had six thousand some builds.

So thanks for watching, my kids, and I will have a link in the description of the video for the Google Chrome directory. So thanks for watching, and goodbye.