We talk a lot about how open-source software can improve the end user’s experience in various ways, but there are not always a lot of really good examples. Google’s Chrome, though, is a perfect example.

Google Chrome has been available for some time under Windows, but Google has still not yet released a version for OS X or Linux. They are, however, with the help of the community, working on Mac and Linux versions. Thanks to Chrome being open-source, though, unofficial builds of Chrome are already available to OS X users, offering an early preview of the work that is being done.

If Chrome were not open-source, everyone would just have to wait until Google decided to release a beta (which is a final release in Gooogle terms) . With Chrome as open-source, we can not only get an early look at the work, but also people can pitch  into the effort themselves to speed up the process.

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