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What Google Needs For Chrome OS To Make It

9:50AM John Herrman | Google made an announcement! It was an OS, in case you haven’t heard. But it was also something else: a long-term, high-risk bet about the future of the internet. Here’s what Google needs to happen for Chrome to make it. More »
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You Can Use Google Chrome For Mac Right Now

4:32AM Matt Buchanan | Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Chrome for Mac is coming in a couple months, but if you’re impatient and only mildly adventurous, you can run it a surprisingly solid early version right now. More »
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Google Chrome OS To Feature Single Sign-In, Ban Other Browsers?

11:00AM Dan Nosowitz | In a line of code in Google’s Chromium, a reference was found to a “login manager,” which is being taken to mean a single sign-in for all programs on the OS. But what does that mean for non-Google software? More »
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Google Chromium Alpha Builds Available for OS X, Linux

7:03PM John Herrman | GoogleThe Chromium team has posted early alpha builds of the ported browser for OS X and Linux, along with some explicit instructions: “DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!” But really, you should. More »
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Google Chrome Passes into 2.0 Beta, Chromium For Linux Gets a Simple Install

9:29PM John Herrman | Removing Chrome’s ‘beta’ label couldn’t have been easy for Google, but it looks like they’re bringing it right back. Chrome 2.0 beta is now available for Windows, along with a little treat for Linux users. More »
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Unofficial Google Chromium Now Available for Mac OS X, Linux

5:50AM Jesus Diaz | If you have a Mac OS X or Linux machine and you are dying to try Google’s Chrome, keep dying because it’s not coming out yet. But if you want to just give it a try, you can grab this version of Chromium, the unofficial version of Chromium, the open-source Google web browser that is the basis of Chrome–and looks exactly like it down to the about box and its most fatal flaw. The Ubuntu flavour above looks nice. Unfortunately, the Mac version looks quite out of place: More »