Google Crome on the mac

Google Chrome can be downloaded from chrome.google.com. Once downloaded, open the disk image and copy the "Google Chrome" app to the Applications folder to install it.

Hi Alicia,

Try the following:
1. Download Chrome from the following link: https://chrome.google.com. The file should end up in your Downloads folder.
2. When the download completes, open your Downloads folder by pressing Command + Option + 'L'. The newly downloaded file will be in there, with a'.DMG' file extension. For example something like, "Chrome.DMG".
3. Navigate to that file, and press Command + 'O' to open it. Inside should be a file with a '.app' extension, something like, "Chrome.app".
4. With VoiceOver focused on that file, press Command + 'C' (to copy), and then press Command + Shift + 'A' to open your Applications folder. Now press Command + 'V' (to paste), this will paste the file into your Applications folder.
5. You should be able to open the Chrome browser from this point on. My advice will be, once you have opened it for the very first time, go down to your dock, and make it a permanent resident so that you have easy access to it from that point on.

HTH.

Hopefully you've managed to get it installed by now. I always find the way of copying a downloaded file into the applications folder a bit clumsy. If you can see it's just a matter of dragging an icon from the left to the right and letting go but with VoiceOver I always end up opening another tab and going to the applications folder to drop it as I can never seem to find my way onto that other icon.

Anyway, I use a combination of Safari and Chrome. I honestly don't have a high opinion of web browsing on the Mac at all, so I think having a Chromium browser like Chrome or Edge to use in conjunction with Safari means you have different options and can usually find something that works. I'll often find that one or the other will break in some way.

For example, in Tahoe I believe that Safari sometimes doesn't read elements with VoiceOver, whereas Chrome does. I am not on Tahoe yet, but find that using things like BitBucket works better in Safari than Chrome. So I think just keep both and switch between them as you need them.

One thing I do like about Chrome is the dedicated Tabs menu. This makes it a lot easier to work with tabs than Safari in my opinion.

I tend to use column view, but then, I like column view.

Anyway, in most DMG files, you get an applications alias. So open it, highlight your app and hit cmd-c to copy, just as you would if you're going to open a new tab to Applications. Then arrow to the applications alias. You just need to be on it. Hit cmd-v. Done.

That's what the alias is for, it refers to the Applications directory for you. So you just highlight it the same way you get to any other file in Finder. Then paste. It takes care of putting your app in place.

Usually the Applications alias is the first file, then your app is below that, again in column view. But if it's in icon view or something and they're horizontal, same thing, get to your app, cmd-c, left or right arrow to the alias, hit cmd-v. You have to do most of this to be able to open a new tab to Applications anyway.

DMG files tend to open in icon view, so hit cmd-3 to put it in columns, or just deal with icon view. I'm saying all of this in case you think you have to drag with Voiceover to do this, you don't, simple copy and paste works just fine.

I use list view, and find that rather than looking for the Applications alias, it's easier for me to just locate and copy the app in the disk image, press Command-Shift-A to access the Applications folder (which is what the alias points to anyway), and then press Command-V to paste the app. This eliminates the need for me to brows the image more than what's necessary to locate the app, and allows me to have a uniform process no matter how items in the image are named and organized.

But that's what they're already doing, I assume, copying the app out of whatever it's in, disk image, unzipped folder, just unzipped into downloads, and so on. So I thought I'd mention it just in case they wanted to use the app alias. I tend to use it if it's there, but knowing this process is really for the best, because yep, then you're just copying an app, no matter how it ends up getting there.