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First Screenshot of Google Chrome for Mac
Google Operating System — ... A document from Chromium's site includes a list of remaining features that need to be implemented. "The purpose of this document is to help organize and coordinate the effort to get a browser window up and running on Mac and Linux using as much of the code that is already there as possible (with temporary header and link scaffolding, plus ifdefs) as opposed to writing a bunch of throw-away code that duplicates what already exists on windows. Our goal is to get a double-clickable app with a working browser window using the real multi-process infrastructure (not TestShell) by ...

First Google Chrome on Mac screenshot appears
Download Squad — ... Though the rendering engine isn't actually doing anything yet, Chrome does correctly open new instances of the renderer with new tabs and close it when the tab closes. Chrome Developer Docs called for a "working browser window using the real multi-process infrastructure (not TestShell) by mid-February." ...

Pics of Chrome for Mac OS show first look at the in-development browser
Obsessable News Feed — ... Besides the rendering problems, just how basic is this Mac port so far? Sure you can move your mouse cursor around the screen, but the developers haven't hooked up the code for handling clicks yet, so you won't get very far navigating without a keyboard. Despite limits like this, it looks like the team working on the project is making steady progress at a decent clip. You can check out the developers' documentation for status updates on all the different ports of Chrome, but it's a bit of technical read. It looks like the final release, or even a stable beta, is still a long ...