For those of you eagerly awaiting Google’s Chrome—a new, extremely popular browser for Windows—to make its way to the Mac or Linux, hold on. According to Brian Rakowski, Chrome’s product manager, he expects and hopes that the Mac and Linux version will be ready by half way through this year. Now that Chrome for Windows has been updated to contain almost all of the features requested (such as extensions), they can focus their energy on expanding it.

When Google Chrome Beta 1 was released earlier this week, Mac users were shocked by the fact that it was Windows-only. Google, with a reputation for creating their apps for all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), had not yet released a Mac version of their web browser. In an interview with BoomTown’s Kara Swisher, Sergey Brin said “I know, I know, it’s embarrassing.” He was unable to provide a date for the release of the Mac OS X version of Chrome, but did mention he is “asking every day” and hopes “it’ll be a matter of months.”

More after the break.