Back in September, Google launched its Chrome browser. With advanced features like website task managers, visual histories, individual browser memory management, and even the ability to re-open tabs that you accidentally closed, Chrome promised to reshape the browser, offering new abilities and capabilities that went beyond the status quo. Windows users got immediate access to those capabilities, but Google has yet to release Chrome for OS X and Linux.
That’s not to say Google been hiding its development progress behind closed doors. Chromium is the open source project that, like its metallic namesake, is used to make Chrome. The Chromium source code repository has remained available and updated since the September 2008 Chrome introduction. Since there hasn’t been any really big news or progress updates, Chromium for OS X and Linux has basically dropped off the radar for the past few months. But that doesn’t mean that progress isn’t being made. We recently checked out the latest iteration of the Chromium source, and we talked to some of the Googlers behind the project to get a sense of where the Chrome OS X port is, and of when Mac users might have something functional in our hands.
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