14 DAY TRIAL // Taking over the responsibility of reporting Google Chrome updates for the week, Google’s Orit Mazor has posted an announcement on the Google Dev Channel revealing that a new Mac OS X build won’t arrive until next week (or perhaps even later), as, this week, developers focus on the Windows and Linux installments of the web browser. However, the developers in charge with the Mac version are said to be gearing up for a release.
“The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.266.0 for Windows and Linux,” Orit Mazor of the Google Chrome development team wrote. “No mac [sic] updates this week, we are working to get a version out soon.” The Google staffer proceeds with listing the changes occurring with “all Platforms (but Mac),” including the initial implementation of the HTML5 sandbox attribute for iframes, and a fix for copying an image from a web page and pasting into Gmail, among others.
Last week, Softpedia reported that Mark Larson of the Google Chrome Team announced that Chrome Beta was finally available for Mac OS X. Simultaneously released on Linux and Windows as well, Chrome Beta (version 4.0.249.30) for Mac migrates users who previously installed the Dev channel releases to the Beta channel.
“We're happy to announce that Google Chrome 4.0.249.30 has been promoted to the Beta channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux,” Larson wrote on the page dedicated to Google Chrome releases. “In addition to introducing our first Beta versions on Mac and Linux, this update introduces Google Chrome extensions on Windows and Linux. Read more about this Beta update on the Google Chrome Blog,” Larson said.
There, Brian Rakowski, Google Chrome product manager, was also extremely proud to enumerate the team’s latest achievements. “We've been working hard to deliver a first-class browser for the Mac — it took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it!” he wrote.
Update: Chrome for Mac updates, in fact, skipped last week, not this one. ("No mac updates this week, we are working to get a version out soon" - posted by Google's Orit Mazor, Wednesday, December 11, 2009 | 11:56). I apologize to our readers for this error.