Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 OS X El Capitan, the latest version of the Mac operating system, builds on the groundbreaking features and beautiful design introduced in OS X Yosemite, refining the.
The first thing we noticed about Google Chrome for Mac is that it's unbelievably lightweight. While Firefox was consuming anything from an average of 20-30% of a Mac's CPU, Chrome for Mac barely registered on the scale, occasionally touching 1%. For anyone plagued with Firefox memory leaks and crashes, this alone is surely going to be a compelling reason to give Chrome a go. As you'd expect, Google Chrome for Mac also features tabbed browsing, which visually, is more attractive than Firefox which tends to cram them together somewhat. Extensions and bookmarking (including syncing across machines) are included, as is Adobe Flash. Chrome for Mac only works on Intel Macs and you might find that some add-ons that you used with previous browsers aren't available for it yet. This is rapidly changing however and most popular add-ons are now available on Chrome.
Perhaps most importantly, Google Chrome for Mac is extremely quick. Surfing the Softonic site, page-loads took less then a second and all images were loaded very quickly. YouTube in particular loaded with lightening speed. Very stable with independent tabs Overall, the handling of sites using JavaScript in particular is mightily impressive and this has been made even better with the implementation of a V8 Crankshaft.
Its also nice to know that with Chrome for Mac, even if there is a problem with one of your tabs, that it won't crash the whole browser - just the tab itself. The final version ensures that you'll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across multiple computers, but also browser preferences - including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings. Meanwhile, you can also enable each extension to work in incognito mode through the extensions manager. Search instantly Search and navigate from the same box.
Choose from results and suggestions that appear as you type, including your recent searches and visited websites, so you can get to what you want in a snap. Type less Tired of filling out web forms with the same information time and time again? Autofill lets you complete forms with just one click.
And it works across devices too — so you can skip all that small-screen typing. Pick up where you left off Chrome brings your open tabs, bookmarks and recent searches from your computer to your phone or tablet, and vice versa. That way you have your web on all of your devices. Just sign in on your other devices to start syncing. Experience a smarter web Get the best of Google when you browse with Chrome. Chrome and Google work together to bring you more relevant suggestions and features across Google products including Voice Search and Google Now.
Make Chrome yours Browse just the way you'd like with Chrome themes, apps and extentions. Get straight to your favorite web destinations with bookmarks and start pages. Once you've set up Chrome, your customizations will be kept in sync across all of your devices. By Anonymous Decent browser for everyday use, even for older machines. I haven't used Google Chrome in a while, however, last week I downloaded it on my late-2010 MacBook Air. The browser works surprisingly well and doesn't put a heavy burden on RAM and CPU.
I should probably point out that I use my laptop for Internet browsing, editing Google docs and watching YouTube. I normally have up to 5-7 tabs open. Chrome might be slightly slower than Safari, but for the third-party app, it is nicely optimized to run on OS X El Capitan.
Pros: Sync with Google services. Design and performance.
Cons: Initial opening speed, even though this may be a fault of my hardware reviewed on March 15, 2016.
Hi Amethyst, I too am running osx 10.4.11. The help section at says it 'recommends' os x 10.5.6. I didn't feel the need to spend the money on the upgrade to osx 10.5. I guess this is an example of commercial pressure, probably part of an agreement between Mac and Google with the benefit to Mac that we'll feel compelled to spend more money. Now their onto os x 10.6, I guess we'll just have to do without.
From: Upgrading from Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger. If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set, which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork, Apple’s productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. Mac Box Set = $169 (which should be, for me in Europe, €115 but of course they think I'm innumerate so they're charging €169!!!) So I guess it depends if you think your life will be improved to the value of 170 bucks by having Chrome (and a new OS). As for me, I'll do without because I'm skint and also because my iMac on 10.4.11 & Firefox works just fine.
Dave in Cork amethyst83 8/12/2009, 22:16 น. After a very brief look I see that it is possible to buy the OS 10.6 download on its own for €29. I couldn't see any 10.5 upgrade so maybe you can jump from 4 to 6.
Personally I'm not that fussed about bothering with it. As a non-techie myself, if I were interested I would check a couple of mac-fanatic forums ( or for example) and maybe hunt around in the threads or ask for advice. Can you go straight from 4 to 6? If you don't buy the box-set, with its upgrades for the other Mac applications, would there be any incompatibilities or glitches etc etc. If its all whizz-bang no problemo then I think €29 could be worth it. I'm not going to bother because it would take me all day (these '5 minute' jobs always take me all day!) and then if there were to be any glitches across the system I'd be lost and end up on the phone for hours. (my usual experience).
And I'm trying to write a book so I don't need any more displacement activities!! If you go for the cheap upgrade post back here as I'd be interested to hear how you got on. Dave miami.juan, 23:13 น.