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Google Chrome goes beta again, releases new version
TG Daily - All News —
... than the current beta, which is about 30% faster than the current stable release. Christian Zibreg will be doing a full Google Chrome beta review tomorrow. Image The relative speed of the new beta is shown in red. Google writes in their blog: "The best thing about this new beta is speed — it's 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version." See the Google Chrome beta page, or the ...
Did Google Chrome Just Get Even Faster?
Mashable! —
... So, what does a Google Chrome beta bring? Speed, and lots of it. According to Google, it’s 25 percent faster than the stable build of Chrome, which is nothing short of amazing given that Chrome is already blazing fast.
Other new features are form autofill, full page zooming and autoscroll, as well as a way to get a side-by-side view by dragging out tabs to the side of the browser window, which you can see in the amazingly short video below.
You can get the Google Chrome beta here. ...
Google upgrades better-tested Chrome version
Webware.com —
... Google released a new beta version of Chrome Tuesday, offering a better balance between software that's stable but out of date on the one hand and cutting-edge but crash-prone on the other. ...
Google Chrome Unleashes a Speedier Beta
TechCrunch —
... The new beta, which you can download here if you have a Windows machine, is 25 percent faster than the current stable version of Chrome. It also includes extra features such as form autofill, zooming, autoscroll, and tab-dragging ...
New Google Chrome Beta released
I4U News —
... . You can download the new Google Chrome beta here . Posted on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:45:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
New Google Chrome Beta: Nearly Twice as Fast as the Original
jkOnTheRun —
... About those new features: they include autofill, full page zoom and autoscrolling, not to mention a side-by-side view when dragging a tab out of the main Chrome window, as shown in the above video demo. Still no Chrome for Mac, so it’s officially PC-only for now. Want in on the Chrome beta channel? It’s all yours right here. ...
Google Unveils Updated Chrome Beta
AppScout —
Think Google will let Apple have all the St. Patrick's Day glory? Not a chance.
On the same day that Apple announced its new iPhone 3.0 OS, Google unveiled a new beta version of its Chrome browser.
Google promises that the updated beta is much faster than its predecessor: "almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version," Brian Rakowski, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post.
The updated Chrome also includes some new features, including autofill, full-page zoom, auto-scroll, and new drag tabs.
Want to see two ...
New beta version of Google Chrome released
SuperSite Blog —
... : developer and stable. With our latest release, we're re-introducing the beta channel for some early feedback — and if you're reading the brand new Google Chrome blog, you are probably just the person to give it a try. ...
Google Chrome: Still value in a "beta"
Between the Lines —
... that it’s re-introducing the beta channel so it can get some feedback from people who are willing to be guinea pigs for new features. It originally ...
Google Chrome 2.0 Beta
Google Operating System —
... select a folder and click on Organize > Reorder by title. * Mouse gestures for resizing windows: you can drag a tab to various locations on the screen to place it in a docking position or to maximize it. * Greasemonkey support, with some limitations. Not all the Greasemonkey extensions will work, there's no user interface for adding scripts, but it's a simple way to extend the limited features offered by Chrome. The beta version has a special download page and it's the same as the version 2.0.169.1. For a complete list of release ...
New Beta of Google Chrome Arrives, Plus Instructions for Extensions [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... Google is out with a beta version of the Chrome browser which adds quite a few new features. If you recall, Chrome officially came out of ...
New Beta of Google Chrome Arrives, Plus Instructions for Extensions
OStatic blogs —
... Google is out with a beta version of the Chrome browser which adds quite a few new features. If you recall, Chrome officially came out of ...
New Chrome Beta Polished For Speed
Webmonkey —
... You check out a walkthrough of some of Chrome’s new features in the video above. Download the beta directly from the Google Chrome site (Windows only). ...
Google releases new Chrome Beta
D' Technology Weblog —
... Download: Google Chrome BETA
New Google Chrome beta: up to 35% faster
SlashGear —
... Chrome is a free download, but is currently only available for PC users, not Mac OS X. Such users will probably be too busy playing with Apple Safari 4, which ...
Chrome 2.0 beta Delivers Impressive Speed Bump
Wired: Epicenter —
... boost for Chrome 2.0, but the browser also gets features like full-page zoom, autoscroll, and support for the same CSS gradients and reflections that Safari 4 offers.
Chrome’s much-touted V8 JavaScript rendering engine has also seen an update, and Google claims that between the new version of WebKit and the new V8 engine, the Chrome 2.0 beta should be roughly twice as fast as Chrome 1.0.
Windows users interested in giving the Chrome 2.0 beta a try, can grab the download from Google.
There’s also good news for Linux users eagerly awaiting a ...
First Google Chrome Extensions
Google Operating System —
A design document shows an example of Google Chrome extension. For now, extensions are just fancy wrappers for user scripts, but there are plans to make them more useful by exposing browser features and allowing developers to create interfaces. Before trying to install the extension linked at the bottom of Google's tutorial, you need to have a recent developer build or Google Chrome 2.0 beta. To enable the support for extensions, edit the target field of the shortcut you use to launch Google Chrome. Right-click on the shortcut, select ...
Google Chrome gets initial support for browser extensions
Download Squad —
... Right now, extension support is still pretty clunky. You'll need to have Google Chrome 2.0 beta or a recent developer build installed to use extensions. Then you'll have to download and unzip the file to a directory like "c:\myextension" and append the following line to the target properties of your Google Chrome shortcut: ...
Google delivers Chrome 2.0 beta, touts speed boost
TechSpot —
... Chrome now supports features like full-page zoom, auto scroll, and the same CSS gradients and reflections that Safari 4 offers. Chrome 2.0 beta also allows you to quickly realign your view by dragging tabs to five preset docking positions similar to how in Windows 7, for example, dragging a window to the top of the screen will maximize it and it introduces a forms auto-fill feature. Whether or not these changes merit the full 2.0 versioning is up for debate. In any case, you can get the latest beta version here and share your thoughts in the comments.
Chrome Experiments: Google Launches New Site to Showcase the Power of Chrome and JavaScript
ReadWriteWeb —
Yesterday, Google announced a new beta version of Chrome, which features a significantly faster version of V8, Google's JavaScript engine. Today, Google also launched Chrome Experiments, which showcases JavaScript intensive games, apps, and visualizations. The site is obviously meant to highlight the power of the combination of V8 and Chrome, though quite a few of the apps should also work on Firefox, Safari and IE. In our tests, however, Chrome did indeed provide the best experience.
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Back to Beta: Google Chrome Now Faster
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... — it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version. Some of the new features you can try out include form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll (both thanks to a new version of WebKit), and a cool new way to drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view (shown below). Check out the new tab dragging feature below. And you can download the latest beta here .
Google Tinkers with JavaScript for 'Chrome Experiments'
AppScout —
... DOMTRIS
If you don't like Tetris, there's something wrong with you. I think the last time I played the game, however, was in senior year calculus on a T-85 graphing calculator. But now you can waste hours of your life on your browser instead of a tiny black-and-white screen with the Tetris clone, DOMTRIS.
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new beta version of Chrome, available for download now. Check out more experiments at ChromeExperiments.com.
Google Launches New Chrome Beta & Highlights Experiments
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews —
... Earlier this week Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) unveiled a new version of Chrome, the company’s web browser. The newest version has zooming that increases and decreases graphics and text. There is also now an auto-fill feature. The tabs can now be dragged to the side of the screen. The new version is the same as Chrome version 2.0.169.1. ...
Disable Google Chrome's New Tab Page
Google Operating System —
Google Chrome displays a special page that includes nine thumbnails for the most frequently visited pages, a list of recent bookmarks and recently closed pages. The feature can't be disabled from the interface and you can't remove the thumbnails you don't like. The recent builds of Google Chrome include support for user scripts and it's not very difficult to write a script that hides all the content from the new tab page. If you use Google Chrome 2 Beta, the developer version or a recent Chromium build, you can easily enable the user scripts ...
Google Releases New Stable Version of Chrome: Faster, Full Screen Mode, Form Autofill
ReadWriteWeb —
... 30% faster than the previous stable version. Some of the new features were already available in the last beta version, but even those users on the stable version will now get access to Chrome's full screen mode, form autofill, and improved new tap pages. In addition, Google also says that the new stable version of Chrome contains over 300 bug-fixes.
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Google Chrome is available in three versions, a stable, mainstream version, and a beta version, as well as a cutting-edge developer version. Today's updates were already ...
