I’m finally beginning to consider making the switch to Chrome as my default web browser. Chrome isn’t new. But when it first appeared in 2008, it was for Windows only, so I couldn’t run it on my Mac. Developer previews for Mac OS X became available in 2009, but it was hardly stable. You could launch the browser to see how it looks, load one or two web pages, but it would crash before you could really do anything with…
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Preview of Google’s New Operating System
Google announced their intent to build their own operating system called Chrome OS in July this year. Last week, the project made its public debut with code released to open source. Honestly, I would not have really bothered to try it out myself, but someone in the community made it really easy. A prebuilt VMware disk image of the Chrome OS installation was made available through BitTorrent and other download sites. Since it was so easy, and the download was…