Google Chrome – straight outta Beta!
Those busy googlers are at it again! Our favorite new browser Google Chrome has lost the BETA badge — woo hoo! Download it now, people. Take that, Microsoft. Oh wait, I’m on a Mac and Google Chrome is just for For Windows Vista/XP SP2…. Sobbbb… Back to Mac Safari and Firefox…
Ps. When will the Mac version of Google Chrome be released?
Pss. We have a Mac and PC here… downloading Google Chrome on the PC as we speak…
To begin download is easy of course… Kinda just waiting now, spinning. I clicked the “if you are having trouble with the download, click here” link. Lotta warnings…. Installing… Installing…. status bar…
Huh, nothing launched. Window just closed. Hrmm. Trying install again. Downloading status bar… Installing status bar again… Then it abruptly just stops and closes… Um… Ok…
I guess it was done. There should’ve been some sort of “done installing/installation complete” or “do you want to launch browser” message. I find the file — says its “up to date” with version 1.0.154.36 — really loads up fast — zipppp.
Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We’re excited to announce that with today’s fifteenth release we are taking off the “beta” label! – from google
Updated with a post from GigaOm:
Google’s V-P of search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, ruined the official coming-out party of the Chrome browser when she said yesterday that the company would soon take it out of beta. She spoke a day too soon — must be the jet lag, as she’s been in Paris attending Le Web — for the release of Chrome’s final version takes place today. And while it might be the fastest beta-to-full launch offering from Google yet, the question remains: Is that enough?