Includes other native Lion technologies

Lion users who want to take advantage of Mission Control and true fullscreen support in Google's Chrome browser can download an experimental "Canary" build of the program that includes fullscreen, a "curtain" mode (hiding the toolbar) and the ability to minimize the app from the menu bar, reports MacStories. The "Canary" builds of Chrome are outside the normal beta channel and based on untested nightly Chromium builds.

Current versions of Chrome can be made fullscreen, but don't show as proper fullscreen apps in Mission Control and overtake the desktop. The Canary build is compliant with Lion's implementation, including a fullscreen button in the upper right corner and an accompanying keyboard shortcut. Employing the fullscreen mode puts the Canary build into its own "space" which is accessible via two-finger swipe or the two-finger tap gesture which brings up Mission Control.

Google Chrome is based on WebKit, the open-source engine that also runs older versions of Safari, Amazon's Kindle and other web browsers (Safari 5.1 uses a different version called WebKit2, which splits and isolates processes for better stability and security -- Google has implemented similar ideas into the Webkit used in Chrome in order to isolate Flash and plug-ins). While Chrome has won praise as a fast and highly standards-compliant multi-platform browser, it has encountered some controversy over its usage tracking (some of which cannot be turned off) and Google's refusal to implement the Do Not Track opt-in feature adopted by all the other major browsers, preferring instead to offer an extension called Keep My Opt-Outs. [via MacStories]

by MacNN Staff