Yes, Chrome for the Mac has been long available through the Google Code Chromium developer group. Of course, the good stuff is never free or easy, so if you were hoping for either of those, you might as well go join the Republican Billionaire club, because they are the only ones ordained and entitled by God to Freely Hoard 70% of the nation’s wealth, leaving the bottom 80% to scramble for only 7% of the total pie. On the other hand, if you are already familiar with unixy stuff or are willing to invest a modest amount of All Valuable Attention to achieve the goal which you seek, your reward awaiteth thee in twitter braggadocio heaven. If you want them, here are the full Mac Build Instructions, which I highly recommend, because this lazy cheat sheet is just that; lazy cheating. Odds are it will work for most people, but not for YOU. Don’t feel bad if ur a n00b, this is true for all of us. Keep breakin’ shit (as long as it’s YOURS to break) till it works, that’s how we learn. Of course, if any of these steps fail, here is your Plan B. Plan C is to pay me more than you can afford, so I’m not betting on that one so much. ;-) Prerequisites:
An Intel Mac running Mac OS X 10.5.* (Leopard). XCode 3.1.2. gclient, part of the depot_tools package, is a wrapper around svn used to manage working copies. Get any or all of these here.
Without further ado, the Super Easy Less-Than-Minimum-Wage-Worthy Chrome Recipe for Mac OS X 10.5.7 (tarball bootstrap sold separately); the steps of which maybe might doubtfully work for your version of OS X 10.5.* too.
Run Terminal. If you don’t know how, the learning starts here. You can do it, Happy Gilmore!
$ cd
$ svn co http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools
$ export PATH=pwd/depot_tools:"$PATH"
$ mkdir chromium
$ cd chromium
To practice Safe Syntax, first check http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/console for all Happy Green Lights. Then check http://chromium-status.appspot.com/ because we like Open Trees, not Closed Minds and Fists. Or ignore this part completely because it’s boring and unnumbered; then post flaming comments later when "this lame-ass recipe didn’t work." Liar. Next: 7. Yes there are three paths you can go by; but only pick ONE; for "gclient config" option!
Option 1: Rowdy Reckless Geek Bareback with no protection whatsoever (because you trust all the Happy Green Lights and Open Trees, above):
$ gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src
Option 2: To be Geek of the Hour (or so), you can try:
$ gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/src http://chromium-status.appspot.com/lkgr
Option 3: To settle for Geek of the Day (or thereabouts), go with:
$ gclient config http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/srchttp://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/LATEST/REVISION If you are more risk averse than you used to be, you might just settle for that last one; being GOD (Geek O’ the Day, silly!) instead of those other higher frequency, build & crash, beings. 8. Bonus Points (should save a lot of disk space): Put this line… "src/webkit/data/layout_tests/LayoutTests": None, … just underneath the "url": line in the file ~/chromium/.gclient If you don’t know how, you can learn. 9. $ gclient sync (or, update to a specific version) [ Go do something else for awhile. To get this far took about 30 to 45 minutes on my Macbook Pro. Honestly, I didn't time it and didn't really pay much attention, as I was probably off trying to conceptualize some damned Cognitive Saturation-Aware Attention Management BCI using currently available code and mushware or something. Sorry about that. ;-) ] Next, assuming the sync worked out okay: 10. $ cd src/build/all.xcodeproj 11. $ xcodebuild -target All [ go do something else for awhile. this took about 2 hours on the MBP with random other random processes running. ] 12. $ cd ../../xcodebuild/Debug 13. $ open . (yes, you need the ".") 14. Click on Chromium.app And viola (or voila, or something …) you too will have Google Chrome (well, Chromium) in ur Mac, makin’ you way cyberubermeta.
Now, please go visit some of these advertisers or something, comrade. It’s called Free Market Socialism for a reason, right? It’s not MONEY that’s evil, it’s ABUSING it and HOARDING it that are lame, tired, and broken, right? Eddie Vedder had it right long ago … all about the Even Flow …
