The latest build of Chrome Canary for Mac packs a great new feature that’s likely familiar to those who use Safari on a daily basis. While current stable builds of Chrome have a jaggedy pinch-to-zoom functionality that only zooms in 10% increments, the latest build of Chrome Canary provides a smooth buttery zoom experience like Apple’s browser.
As of right now, it looks like the feature works a little bit less fluidly than Apple’s offering, but that’s to expected in the most experimental public release version of Chrome. Zooming works the same way that it does in Safari and current versions of Chrome, so all it takes is pinching two fingers on the Trackpad.
If you’re sticking with Safari on your Mac for this reason or others (battery life, anyone?), it looks like this feature—once it makes its way to the stable release—will give you one more reason to switch over to Google’s browser. If you want to give it a try, head over and download the latest build of Chrome Canary.
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Everybody stealing everything from Apple.
If u have a Mac – use Safari, that has amazing tech inside and save your battery, and works just fine. Chrome for poor Windows users.
Too bad it doesn’t show favicons.
Favicon is definitely the most important part of the web browsing. Come on?! With many so different in style favicons tabbar looks ugly.
look up safaristand, it fixes everything
I’m sorry, but this feature was the one that was preventing me switching. Really excited to switch to Chrome, been using it for work forever.
Safari is very nice browser, but it leaks memory and is significantly less stable. Chrome has somewhat better tab management too. And better track record in security.
Only one more thing I’d like is something what I’ve seen in Firefox – hierarchical tabs.
Quit being condescending. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Chrome. It’s an extremely powerful browser and the add ons are second to none. There’s absolutely no reason to be insulting or spout out fanboy nonsense.
As a developer, I will just flat out say you are wrong. The user data for web browsers proves it. Just no. Sh.
What about the two finger “double-tap to zoom” (to the width of the page element)?
I use that all day every day. I don’t know anyone who bothers to “pinch” to zoom on a page. It’s awkward and slow even in Safari.
Are you talking about Safari in iOS?
You can double tap with two fingers to zoom with Safari on a Mac
It works the same way in desktop.
He’s talking about Safari in OS X.
Gazoo, u can do it in Safari in OS X!
1. If u have Magic Mouse: double tap by 1 finger (not click, just tap) on any element.
2. If u have Magic Trackpad or MacBook: double tap by 2 fingers on any element.
It only took them what? 4 years?
I like chrome because its a little bit faster than Safari but the scrolling and zooming is still chunky and choppy, even in the Canary version and the UI is ugly and bookmarks look like crap. Ill keep using Safari.
Having tab expose would be nice. I’m starting to get used to it in Safari.
what really bugs be with chrome for mac is that OSX native text substitution does not work under chrome. Google really needs to fix this its a deal breaker.
Has anyone got any ideas on how I could possibly disable this and revert to incremental zoom?
I totally love the new finger-pinch zoom on html pages, but for some reason, finger-pinch zoom no longer works on PDF pages. Really annoying, as PDF zooming has worked for ages.