New Chrome for Mac beta adds much needed features

Back in October when Mac users first saw Google’s Chrome browser on their platform, there was plenty of excitement. However, not long after, it sunk in that Chrome for Mac was missing many of the features that the Windows users loved about it. In the most recent update from Google for the beta version of the browser, many of these features are now available.

Perhaps the best of these updates is that support for extensions has now been added. With a large library of third-party add-ons, this not only makes Chrome much more powerful, it also allows it to compete more with Firefox on the Mac side. Despite having a much shorter existence than Firefox, Chrome already has many of the favorite plugins that people use everyday.

Another update the new version of Google Chrome brought was bookmark sync. Users will now be able to sync their browsers with Google’s cloud-based method for doing so. On top of these, increased stability and more features were added to the bookmark manager, making keeping track of them easier. Although it took a while for these to make their way from the developer release to the beta release, I’m glad they’re here now. As I use Chrome for Mac as my everyday browser, I hope to see this progress continue.

Via [Ars Technica]