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Chrome Browser Is Coming to Mac and Linux

Google expects to make announcements before the end of the year.

By Erica Naone

At a press event on its Chrome operating system today, Google began by talking about the Chrome browser from which the operating system is growing. The company said it expects to launch versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux before the end of the year, as well as enabling browser extensions. Even with only a Windows version of the browser available, Google says Chrome has garnered 40 million users who treat it as their primary browser.

Tags: Google Chrome OS, google Chrome browser

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Chromium Browser for Linux

Just to make it apparent, there's already a Chromium browser which uses the Chrome codebase for Linux (http://www.chromium.org/Home). Additionally, the Chromium OS is in development using an open source model. This can be built on Linux machines as well (http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/building-chromium-os). I've been using Chromium on Ubuntu for over a month now and it looks nearly identical to Chrome and runs faster than Firefox. I haven't completely converted to it, but I do use it when Firefox can't handle the JavaScript on a page.

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