Mac Users Give A Smile, First Screenshot Of Chrome Is Here

Google Chrome, the much talked about internet browser will also make Mac and Linux users happy. This chrome, which was launched last year in the month of September as Windows version was put to question by Mac and Linux users. To make it available to these users, the developer of Chrome started further working on it soon after the launch of the Windows version. As an aftermath, today there are some visible results.

A document page of Google Chrome’s site enlists all the remaining features that are required to be implemented. This document page of Chrome is a guide to organize and coordinate the efforts to avail the browser window up and to make it run on Mac and Linux with the use of most of the codes that are available there. This document of Google says that their “goal is to get a double-clickable app with a working browser window using the real multi-process infrastructure (not TestShell) by mid-February.”

In one of the pages of Google group, Mike “Pink” Pinkerton, an American software developer known for his work on the Mozilla browsers, gives more details about the Macport that is going to be launched before the Linux version. According to him the developers, early this week, made a list of the key classes on the critical path to getting a renderer launching and also at the same time showing bits on the screen. He adds,

Our goal was to have a renderer being spawned by launching the browser by the end of this week.

Pinkerton says that they have hit the goal of rendering processes launched one day early. They have launched a new renderer with each tab and when this tab is closed then the renderer goes away. One can find it coming and going in Activity Monitory. He mentions,

All this goes through the cross-platform infrastructure with a Cocoa front-end.

Below is another of Mac Chrome accredited to Mike Pinkerton.

Pinkerton reminds, “Just open a new tab and keep going! It’s important to point out that’s part of what’s taken us so long to get to this point. The WebKit that ships as part of Mac OS X can’t run this way — it took a lot of work to marshall it to do so. In addition, the UI clearly needs much love, but it’s an indicator of the clean and simple direction we’re heading.”

If we read the Mac Detailed Status section then we will come to know that the new goal of the team is to have a multi-process browser by the end of March.

In the Build Instructions the page reads that currently the Mac build is a work in progressa. It also reads, “The TestShell project builds and is able to render web pages, and this area is currently under active development, but work has yet to begin on the user interface of the main Chromium application.”