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Kimbie

8:21 AM on 12 February, 2010

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yay, I have been waiting for this to happen, as I have a load of book marks and extensions on my PC that I have not bee able to use on OSX.

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BobaFett

10:09 AM on 12 February, 2010

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@Gordon: I have been using Chrome on Windows for a long time and love it. But on a Mac I still prefer Safari. Both are WebKit based and there is no discernible difference in speed. And a major feature missing from Chrome (which might be resolved now with extensions) is viewing PDFs inline, which Safari does quicker and with a more consistent user interface than the Adobe Reader plugin on other browsers. I'm not convinced that all Mac users should be switching to Chrome.

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Ben

11:00 AM on 12 February, 2010

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I've got to agree with BobaFett - it's just not that clear cut on the Mac. Somehow, somewhere, something switched in Apple's collective brain regarding Safari and, scarily, it got good. 4.0.4 is a really nice browser.

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A Scotland

1:24 PM on 12 February, 2010

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I also agree with BobaFett. I use chrome for PC and safari for Mac and see no reason to switch at all. Maybe Gordon should set out the case more clearly?

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Gordon394

1:46 PM on 12 February, 2010

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@A Scotland - try this: http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2009/03/19/Internet-Explorer-8-Kicks-Off-Beta-Tag/p1

"At the 'Pwn2Own' hacking competition this week IE8 along with Firefox fell within 'hours' according to the hosts. They weren't the worst however as Safari was compromised in 'a couple of seconds' and only Chrome survived the day unscathed (Opera wasn't part of the contest)."

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MatthewWilliams

2:19 PM on 12 February, 2010

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Was that Safari for Mac or Windows? Interesting nonetheless.

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BobaFett

2:47 PM on 12 February, 2010

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@Gordon: Fair point but as Charlie Miller said it's not so much the browser as Mac OS X not doing much to protect against code execution once a hole has been found:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941

Chrome possibly has fewer such holes than Safari, but really it comes down to how much time hackers invest on each browser and that's often proportional to market share. Windows, IE and Firefox have had significantly more time devoted to hacking them and consequently a lot more band-aid applied to cover up the holes already discovered. It's now a lot harder to find new holes and as Charlie Miller said himself, it wasn't worth it for the $5K on offer at Pwn2Own.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2748

Ultimately the most pertinent statistic for any Mac or Windows user is: what is the probability of being subjected to a successful web based attack? And that's not easy to answer. Using Chrome on Mac may reduce that probability for Mac users but who knows by how much and whether the risk of using Safari is that great in the first place?

Personally, I'm looking forward to getting my hands on Google Chrome OS to see if that will meet my internet needs.

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drdark

3:09 PM on 12 February, 2010

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@Gordon: that's the first thing I thought of posting too... maybe I spend too much time on this site :P.

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