14 DAY TRIAL // The Google Chrome web browser appears to be on track for its December release on the Mac as GoogleBeta, with just eight bugs remaining to be ironed out in the latest development build. Only one code error is “Priority 1” out of the lot, placing the release of Chrome for Mac OS X a couple of weeks, or even days away.
The person leading the team handling Chrome for Mac, Mike Pinkerton, has reportedly tweeted out that there are now only “8 remaining M4 Mac beta blockers!” By heading over to the Chromium site, we could see exactly what those eight bugs were and how they were labeled.
The single “Priority 1” bug is “Renderer crash (Flash) under IPC::SyncChannel::SyncContext::GetDispatchEvent()”, according to the list of required code corrections. Labeled as a little less crucial, but still holding off the final release, are Priority 2 bugs like “Uninitialized param in IPC::Channel::ChannelImpl::Send”; “Create Mac keyboard shortcuts and tips&tricks page”; “Chrome no longer allows windows to be in separate spaces”; “Search button works intermittently on hungry-girl.com”; “Chrome refuses to update”; “Update server not available (error: 7): ksadmin not in PATH”; “Buggy voicemail playback in Google Voice”.
Mike Pinkerton asserted earlier this month that Google Chrome would arrive in Beta form on the Mac before the end of December, 2009. Standing as confirmation that his predictions are accurate are the almost two dozen “Priority 1” bugs fixed in the meanwhile. With just one such remaining issue on their hands, the Google development team working on the Mac version of the browser will soon be breathing a sigh of relief.
Google is known to also be actively working on an operating system bearing the Chrome label, in addition to developing the Chrome web browser. Chrome OS will feature key aspects like speed, simplicity, and security, according to Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google.