In amongst a chorus of "what took them so long", the Google folks working on the Chromium project -- the open source project behind the Chrome browser -- have at last added basic support for bookmark management in Mac OS X builds. Now, before you run over to the nightly builds page for Chromium, it's worth noting that the feature is still incomplete - you're not able to remove items from the bookmark manager -- you can only move them around. So there's still some way to go!
If you're using the Chrome for OS X releases, there's also going to be a little wait for the changes to move from Chromium to Chrome -- however if you feel adventurous, the Chromium snapshot builds will give you a taste of the feature (scroll to the bottom of the list for the most recent build).
I've been waiting to try it out since I heard the first rumblings about Carakan, and it's here at long last. Opera's new Javascript engine has finally appeared in the developer build just posted on their website.
The bottom line: it's fast. Carakan should serve as proof to the world that Opera is serious about building a competitive browser.
Yes, Google, you can proudly herald this one as a major victory for your browser in my books. If other Javascript benchmarks haven't been anything you could get excited about, maybe this one will do it. Ben Firshman's Javascript NES emulator runs best in Google Chrome.
Those of you who are tired of reading about all the great features Google has been packing into Chrome's beta and developer channel builds, it's time to break out the Guinness. A fortnight after Google Chrome's first birthday, Google has bumped the stable version to 3.0.195.21.
It's not much, but evidence of Google's enigmatic Chrome OS has appeared in the source for Chromium's (the open source project behind Google Chrome) nightly builds.
While Firefox has built-in support for making GMail your default handler of mailto: links, Chrome has not yet implemented such a feature. Strange, really, since it's Google's browser. Then again, it still doesn't have a version of the Google Toolbar.
