For about a year Apple fanboys have been moaning that Google has been treating them unfairly by refusing to release a version of Chrome for the Mac. The fact that Google could release a version of the browser for Windows, but not their minority operating system was seen as proof that Google was a pro-Microsoft evil empire and only Steve Jobs really looked after them.

Google, for its part, had some difficulty getting Chrome to work properly on OS-X and always said it wanted to get the browser onto the Mac. Well now it has. Not only must Mac fanboys shut up, it is showing flaws in the Safari software Apple insists that fanboys use on its machines.

Software engineers John Grabowski and Mike Pinkerton of the Google Chrome team said in a blog post said that it took a hefty dose of goodness from the Windows version to build a fast, polished browser for Mac.

The Macintosh version of Chrome is in "beta," or test, mode and does not yet have customisation features such as allowing extension programs or bookmark management. It also can't customise itself as well as the Windows version.

But even gutted, Chrome is more than a match for Safari.