General users can now download the beta version of Google Chrome for Mac, as the web browser has finally been made available Tuesday.

Chrome for Mac has been a long time to come, more than a year after its Windows counterpart first debuted in beta. Although it was initially planned to allocate in first half of 2009, the product has hit numerous delays.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted this year that Chrome's absence on the Mac platform has been embarrassment for his company. The company has worked to ensure that the beta version of the browser may get a period at the end of 2009.

Download available from Google, is 17.6MB. Requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later, and only runs on Intel processors.

We've been working hard to deliver a first-class browser for the Mac