If they cared, it wouldn’t be over a year since Chrome was released and the Mac still has bupkis.

If they cared, when the Mac finally gets something it wouldn’t be a half-assed “beta”.

Windows is 95%, Mac is 4%. Google is just as aware of that as anybody, and acts accordingly. They. Don’t. Care. They’ll toss the Mac table scraps when they feel like it and, apparently, many Mac users are cool with that.

For any Apple fan whose got it in their head that Apple’s success this last decade has somehow altered the software landscape, one need only look at The Great Google’s actions to see that nothing has changed. Mac users are still second-class citizens.

For those of you taking the plunge, I’m sure Google will also include their hidden and if-you-delete-it-we’ll-just-reinstall-it updater as a bonus. Two pieces of garbage in one!

Where FF shines is when you actually *need* a plugin. Eg. to make Adobe’s wretched new forums palatable takes GreaseMonkey and/or Stylish and rewriting the entire site on the fly. Or something like BetterPrivacy when visiting any site you are paranoid about, such that all those evil Flash LSO cookies get verifiably nuked when you close the last FF window. (BTW, you can theme FF to integrate much more nicely with the Apple OS.)

Safari is great for straight & simple browsing but FF has the dev community to make it god-emperor of swiss army knife browsers. To gain a niche is going to require Google make a really stable browser and attract/bootstrap a strong extensions dev community imho. (And you’re right–much of that is unlikely to be apparent in the beta.)

I visit a webpage in Firefox and I can see that page and use its functions. End of story for me.

Firefox is up in the air, since it extensively when shopping. The addition of addons an all the price tracking features I’ve added to the browser make it a no brainer, and I suggest it to any Windows user switching platforms. It’s not pretty, but, you can theme it to make it more Mac like. My Firefox looks like the Safari 3 beta (I enjoy tabs on top better – don’t ask why).

Then we have Google, whose tools blatantly remind you that as long as you are using their products, they’re gathering information about what you’re searching for, is it related, etc. Even in beta though, their browser is pretty decent despite it’s unfortunate lack of development compared to its Windows brethren. On feature I really like though is it’s sheer simplicity. Even more so than Safari, Chrome offers essentials in a minimalist environment – the omnibar is possibly the greatest thing since sliced bread, since everyone I know never uses the @%#! search bar, but rather the address bar anyway. Props to google for giving me one less thing to tab to.

I think any browser you choose is fine, as long as it’s not Internet Explorer. <- We can all agree on that.

Chromium has slowly worked its way into becoming my primary browser as these daily builds have become more and more stable. It’s faster than anything else out there, the user interface is top-notch, it handles windows and tabs better than safari, and did I mention it’s fast?

I can’t even boot Firefox now, it’s horrifically slow in comparison.

I have also been following chrome for mac for long (http://www.manu-j.com/blog/tag/chrome/) but I got so tired of firefox freezing up that I have made chrome my default browser.

Lack of extensions suck though. The rest i can live without it for a while.