Google edges closer to Mac version of Chrome browser

As Chrome OS early build spotted in wild

Google has taken a significant step closer to releasing a Mac beta version of its open source Chrome browser, by adding printing support to its latest build.

Mountain View spun out a Windows version of Chrome over a year ago, since when its developers have been adding spit and polish to a Mac equivalent.

The company confirmed yesterday that Mac printing support had now been built into the browser.

“This is the first of series of patches to implement printing on the Mac,” said the firm on its Chromium developer feedback page.

“This API is based heavily on the Linux version; although it doesn’t end up abstracting very much on the Mac, having a NativeMetafile implementation makes it easy to pass data through the existing print architecture.”

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