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The much hyped Chrome browser is nearing completion of a beta release for the Mac this december. It seems that only 8 bugs stand in its way now. Though it is quite unclear what these bugs are, and how diffcult is the chrome team going to find to resolve them, we can expect it to be delivered on time as only one of these 8 bugs has been mentioned to have a priority of 1.

The new features expected in the Chrome for Mac are the 'Create Appliation Shortcut' feature and the 'Bookmark Manger'.

Google Chrome is an open source browser based on Webkit and powered by Google Gears. Google has been making modifications to its browser and claims to have significantly improved the way Chrome executes javascript as compared to other browsers, by its V8 javascript engine that it has created from scratch. In spite of these changes, Chrome's adoptation is sill quite slow in the browser space, and is mainly associated with the so called 'geek' community. It enjoys a market share of less than 5 percent yet.

However, the bold attempt is being watched closely and people are becoming much more interesed in the new kind of browsing experience that google claims to create through its Chrome browser.

The beta launch is expectd to be in early December. And the Chrome team seem to be quite on track. Will it be good enough for the sophisticated Mac user? Will the casual mac user try it out? Well, those are questions that only time can answer.