Chrome for Mac Beta officially gets extensions, bookmark sync and more

John Brownlee ()

I’m one of the few avowed fans of Google’s Chrome browser here at Cult of Mac, but it’s definitely got its problems. As Craig eloquently pointed out, it’s a browser utterly dismissive of Apple’s own UI design principles, and the Chrome for Mac beta has a number of shocking holes in its feature set…. biggest among them the lack of a bookmark manager, a cookie manager, a task manager, bookmark sync and extension support.

Guess what features were just added to the Chrome for Mac beta? Hint: Craig’s not going to be any happier.

You should at least check it out: it’s a fuller featured browser than Safari, and the new beta not only brings Chrome for Mac up to spec compared to Chrome on other platforms, but the addition of extensions, managers and sync finally makes Chrome for Mac a serious competitor to Firefox.

If you’re interested in trying it out or upgrading your copy of Chrome, you can download the newest beta here.

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • Jay

    I used Chrome on my 2007 MacBook Pro, and for a while, I was exceedingly pleased with it. It was very fast, clean, and I liked most everything about it. Then, after a couple of weeks, I started noticing a huge slowdown on my system speed, and for the first time in almost 3 years of owning my MBP, I heard the fans start to spin. Opening Activity Monitor, I realized that Google Chrome was sucking almost 100% of my CPU resources. It’s not for me unless that gaping vaccuum is fixed. I’ll try the updates to see if it helps.

  • Don Pope

    This is excellent news!
    Chrome on Windows is a joy to use, but it was missing too many features on the Mac. Hopefully, that is no longer the case.