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It looks like the "Try a new browser" options are set based on browsers that are available for your OS. Since IE and Chrome aren't available for Mac (Chrome for Mac's not officially ready), those aren't shown to Mac users.

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It seems odd that it shows Linux users IE then. Of course, you CAN get it to run on Wine, but it's not exactly supported.

Then again, if you're on Linux, you're not really part of the problem, now are you?

I used the development version of Chrome for Mac but it has bugs and shortcomings still. I will be glad when they finally finish it.

I just tested it against Safari 4 on Snow Leopard on my old 2Ghz Core Duo MacBook, and it smokes Safari in SunSpider and V8's tests (the latter unsurprising as Google obviously deems their tests important performance points). I didn't do Dromeo.

I'm thinking about switching to it for day to day use.

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