Google Chrome finally supports emoji, and it’s coming to you in 2015.

After a long wait, Google Chrome is soon to join Safari and Firefox as first class citizens on the Mac, supporting Apple’s color emoji font.

No longer will Chrome users look at empty spaces, and “X” boxes when the rest of the internet sees smiling people, animals, objects and symbols.

The current public release of Chrome is version 39, with version 40 expected to be released this month.

Version 41 of Chrome (currently in development) already loads emoji on OS X in full color. Some glitches remain - such as spacing around flag emojis - but this is a huge step in the right direction.

This is Emojipedia displaying color emoji in Chrome 41 for Mac:

To see this emoji support yourself, take a look at Chrome Canary, which allows regular folk to use buggy, untested future versions of Chrome.

Or just wait for the public release of Chrome 41, likely to be released in early 2015.

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Update 22 January 2015

Chrome version 40 has been released, paving the way for the release of Chrome 41. Likely in late February, or early March 2015.

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