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  Sure would be great to have a Mac OS X version of Chrome!

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Linkpost | 12.10.2008
TechBlog — ... - A feature similar ones found in Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer 8 beta. • Google takes Chrome out of Beta - But there are still no Mac or Linux versions. • ...

Google Chrome leaving beta
Obsessable News Feed — ... Conversations: Google takes Chrome out of Beta [TechCrunch] ...

Google Taking Chrome Out Of Beta, May Put It On New PCs (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... . But this morning we got a good indicator Google is taking its new browser seriously: At a Paris conference, Google VP Marissa Mayer told TechCrunch's Michael Arrington the company is taking Chrome out of "beta." ...

Final Release Of Google's Chrome Ready For Primetime?
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... interview, Google vice president Marissa Mayer commented that the company's Chrome browser will be exiting beta status and be offered as a 1.0 release. What say ye, Chrome users, is it good enough? I have been using Chrome on my Windows machine intermittently over the past two months. In general I like it, but am still waiting for Google to roll out a version for Apple OS. The Windows beta version has been around for about three months and has already seen a few updates. Speaking to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington at Le Web 08 in Paris, Mayer spilled the beans that a 1.0 ...

Google Chrome Coming out of Beta
AppScout — ... Of course there are reasons for Chrome's relatively rushed release. For one thing, OEMs can't provide the product to consumers until it comes out of beta. Also, as TechCrunch points out, the official release of the product may also lead Google to bundle the Chrome with packages like Google Toolbar and Apps.

Google Chrome coming out of beta
Download Squad — ... Google is preparing to take the beta label off of a product in what must be record time. Google's Marissa Mayer tells TechCrunch's Mike Arrington that the Google Chrome web browser will come out of beta soon, just three months after the product was first released as a public beta. By contrast, Gmail, which was launched more than 4 years ago is still in beta. ...

Report: Google Chrome 'coming out of beta'
Webware.com — Google will take its Chrome Web browser is coming out of beta testing, according to a TechCrunch report Wednesday. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of user experience, told TechCrunch's Mike Arrington as much in an interview at Le Web 08, according to the report. However, there was no word about when the move might take place. One possibility would be to announce it Thursday at Add-on-Con, a conference about browser extensions at which Nick Baum, a product manager on Google Chrome, is scheduled to speak on a panel about the future ...

First Bytes: Sony, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
Tech Observer — Sony cuts 8,000 jobs and its stock still falls. [Reuters] What are New Yorkers searching for on Google? [NYT] Google Chrome is coming out of beta. [Tech Crunch] A major Yahoo investor is urging the company to make a search deal with Microsoft. [CNet] Related Links Google Extends Web Search Lead Yahoo for Sale: Ballmer Says No When Will Microsoft Go in for the Kill? ...

Google Chrome to Leave Beta Soon [Google Chrome]
Lifehacker — [image] According to a TechCrunch interview with Google's vice president Marissa Mayer, Chrome will leave beta soon though, frankly, the all-important "when" is conspicuously absent from the post. But I guess in a world where Gmail has remained in beta for going on five years, just knowing that Chrome has plans to leave beta sometime in the next year (maybe?) is good news.

Mayer Closes The Door On Chrome's Beta Tag
WebProNews Feed — ... late last month, from Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai. He discussed a January-ish target date, and advertising campaigns and distribution deals were discussed at the same time. Mayer sits more than a single step up on the corporate ladder, though, so what she told Michael Arrington in an interview at LeWeb '08 seemed worth repeating. Considering that Google's products have been known to remain in beta for very long periods of time (look at Google Docs or the even more common Gmail), Mayer and her company appear to want Chrome on a real fast track. Since ...

Google Chrome official debute?
p2pnet news — ... The open source browser has been in beta, but it’s about to be officially unleashed and will probably, “spur bundling with Google Toolbar and Google Apps,” says TechCrunch, going on: ...

Chrome Leaving Beta, Marissa Mayer Tells TechCrunch
Beet.TV — ... Google web browser Chrome is leaving beta, Marissa Mayer told Michael Arrington today at the Le Web conference in Paris. I republished my interview with Marissa at TechCrunch50 this summer about Chrome. You can check out TechCrunch's story here. ...

Hey Sergey: Where’s my Mac version of Chrome?
Between the Lines — ... Three months after launching its Chrome Web browser, Google is taking it out of beta and releasing a full version, according to TechCrunch . That’s all fine and dandy - but where’s my Mac version of Chrome? If I recall correctly, it was Google co-founder Sergey Brin who stood before the tech press ...

Google decides Chrome is sufficiently polished
GMSV — The length of time many Google products continue to wear the beta label is legendary , but Chrome , the search sovereign’s Web browser, will shed that tag after mere months , according to Google VP Marissa Mayer, interviewed at Le Web ‘08 . This is interesting because Chrome, introduced three months ago, feels more like a beta than many of its beta brethren, with a steady stream of updates as developers deal with bugs and compatibility issues. And to the great irritation of Mac and Linux users, it’s still Windows-only , probably until ...

Browser Bug Report: Chrome Buggier Than Firefox or IE
Today @ PC World — ... set to debut in early January. Google executives, meanwhile, reportedly indicated during a Web conference interview that Chrome is on the brink of coming out of beta altogether. Testing, 1, 2, 3 In contrast to what those timelines might suggest, Chrome is being called the buggiest browser of all in a review released Wednesday. Open software testing community ...

Report: Google polishes off Chrome
Technologizer — ... is on the verge of coming out of beta, according to a report by TechCrunch . Chrome made its debut as a beta on September 2nd; for Google, a beta period of only a few months is a surprisingly short one. Google’s applications are a likely vehicle for distributing Chrome, with Apple having paved the way for more aggressive bundling by tethering distribution of Safari to iTunes. There is also plenty of potential for high-profile promotion of Chrome at Google’s wildly popular Web properties, and the company has several hardware partners that could pre-load the browser on PCs. ...

Chrome Soon Leaving Beta, Triggering Mother of All Browser Wars [Google]
Gizmodo — TechCrunch reports that the Google Chrome browser will soon graduate from beta status into a final release. Even if you've tried Chrome and passed, rest assured you haven't seen the last of it. Back when Microsoft snuck up behind Netscape and stole its crown, hardly anyone knew that there was even a playing field, let alone a game. Following all that anti-trust business, Microsoft's only major competitor was the product of a non-profit organization. Firefox is popular, it's what I'm using now, but it doesn't have what it takes to be a superpower in a ...

Chrome to Lose Beta Status -- Already? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that Google's vice president Marissa Mayer told him in an interview that ...

Chrome to Lose Beta Status -- Already?
OStatic blogs — TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that Google's vice president Marissa Mayer told him in an interview that Chrome will be coming out of beta. Mayer didn't give a definite time frame, but one would assume that this would mean sooner rather than later. This announcement is a little surprising for a few reasons. Chrome is a new arrival on the browser scene -- it's not yet six months old. It's a new addition to the "public" Google family (though without a doubt it was tested internally for quite some time). While ...

Google Chrome Gets Out of Beta Really Soon
SlashGear — ... It was great to see Firefox’s success in the browser war. While IE still dominates the market, Firefox has been chipping away IE’s shares. Now come Google Chrome which many have reported it would be hitting gold release soon. According to TechCrunch, the reason why Google is pushing Chrome to final release milestone is to be able to get PC Vendors to bundle the browser in their systems - as many of them would not accept incomplete software. ...

Google's Shiny Plans for Chrome
Tech Observer — ... when Google VP Sundar Pichai announced that the browser would enter full release status in January and that Google could pursue partnerships with major OEMs in a bid to get Chrome shipped on new PCs. On Wednesday, other sites reported on similar statements made by Google's Marissa Mayer at the Le Web 08 conference. ...

Beta no more for Google's Chrome
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... And, of course, this isn't really breaking news since Marissa Mayer decided to blab all about it to TechCrunch's Mike Arrington at ...

Google Chrome, Out of Beta. Will That Be Enough? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... 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 ...

Google Chrome Out Of Beta
Google Blogoscoped — ... they did so because their “goals for stability and performance have been met” (while disclaiming their “work is far from done”). But is that the real reason? Steve Gillmor at Techcrunch proposes another potential way to look at it; “Google’s open source browser has a number of eager customers, including OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] who can’t offer the browser until it is in full release.” Yesterday when Google’s plans started surfacing, Ionut Alex. Chitu commented, “Out of beta? That’s a joke, right? ...

Google's Chrome Comes Out Of Beta
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... with their products. TechCrunch reported on Wednesday that Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of user experience, told Mike Arrington at Le Web 08 that the Chrome browser would remove the beta tag, making it a bona fide product offering. The Chrome browser is an aberration for the ...

Google's Chrome Comes Out Of Beta
The Channel Wire — ... with their products. TechCrunch reported on Wednesday that Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of user experience, told Mike Arrington at Le Web 08 that the Chrome browser would remove the beta tag, making it a bona fide product offering. The Chrome browser is an aberration for the ...

Google's Marissa Mayer at LeWeb: TechCrunch has le video
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... missed LeWeb in Paris -- which might not be a bad thing, considering Paul Carr's report: Freezing cold, no internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference!) -- but you can watch 22 minutes of video showing Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) and Loic Le Meur (LeWeb) interviewing Google's vice president of search product and user experience (sic) Marissa Mayer on Wednesday afternoon. Arrington notes that: "Mayer announced that their Chrome browser would shortly be leaving beta and that Google Search Wiki would soon have a toggle button to allow people ...

Google Chrome 1.0 Released
Google Operating System — ... Google Chrome is not out of beta because it's ready, but because Google wants to sign some deals with computer manufacturers like Dell that will preinstall the browser. " The Google's open source browser has a number of eager customers, including OEMs who can't offer the browser until it is in full release," mentions TechCrunch. Even German's Federal Office for Information Security ...

Google Chrome flunks password security test
p2pnet news — ... “The open source browser has been in beta, but it’s about to be officially unleashed and will probably, ’spur bundling with Google Toolbar and Google Apps,”’ says TechCrunch. ...