- You'll want to download Google Chrome Canary. Google explicitly dosen't let you set this as a default browser, but most of the time it's very stable. To set it as your default browser, open up Safari. On the top bar, go to
Safari -> Preferences -> Default Web Browser
. Chrome Canary should show up in the list.
Now, your probably coming from Linux. Will most of your command line stuff work? Absolutely. OSX is based of Darwin, which is an offical Unix-like POSIX system. Most things under the hood will work the same, a lot of the GNU tools are already installed. Also, device mounting is a little different, but that's about it.