Much like Apple’s Safari browser is based on the open-source WebKit project, Chrome is based on Chromium, another open-source project. How, you might ask? First, a bit of background. I mean a real, live, honest-to-gosh version of (what will eventually be) Chrome that runs directly in OS X. What has changed, though, is that you can now run a close relative of Chrome on your Mac-and no, I don’t mean the Windows version of Chrome in VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop for Mac. Things have progressed markedly since then, though there’s still not a native version of Chrome for OS X that you can download and try. At that time, all we had was one little screenshot. As noted here back in February, Google’s Chrome browser for OS X is still in the works.
