After 15 releases, Google Chrome goes gold
TG Daily - All News — Mountain View (CA) – That was quick: Google surprised web users today with releasing the first final versions of its web browser. “We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done,” Sundar Pichai, Google vice president of product management, announced today. Among the improvements: More speed. Google’s beta phases can last years and no one really cares. So if Google approves the removal of the beta label after just one hundred days, it may be something special and something important. The Chrome web ...

Chrome loses beta label, tackles privacy
Between the Lines — ... stability issues around plug-ins - have largely been fixed. A nice bonus feature is one that bundles all of the options that might impact a user’s privacy in one common place. Basically, if there’s a feature in Chrome that involves acessing or storing information that might identify you or something about you, it will be grouped with all of the other features that might have privacy implications so that users can find them easily and adjust the settings to their comfort levels.  In a blog post , the company said: We’ve taken security very seriously from the beginning and we ...

Google Chrome, Out of Beta. Will That Be Enough? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... On their blog, Google’s Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson talk about improvements such as more stability, better video playback performance, and massive gains in speed. The final version also has better bookmarking capability and privacy controls. What more’s, the company claims it’s developing an extension platform, along with support for Mac and Linux. It will need those versions in order to get broader adoption. ...

Google Chrome Out Of Beta
Google Blogoscoped — ... Google just took their browser Chrome out of Beta. Google say they did so because their “goals for stability and performance have been met” (while disclaiming their “work is far from done”). But is that the real reason? Steve Gillmor at ...

Google Chrome Goes Gold With 1.0 Release
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... Web browser for Windows is no longer beta software. The company released Chrome 1.0 on Thursday, a mere three and a half months after its initial release. That's the blink of an eye compared to Gmail's gestation in beta, which began in April 2004 and continues to this day. And the speed at which ...

Google Chrome Has 10 Million Users; Are You One of Them?
Mashable! — ... Google has announced that its Chrome browser is now out of beta – an unusually quick transition for Google considering that Gmail still bears the “Beta” tag, 4+ years after its launch. ...

Google Strips Beta Tag from Chrome -- It's a Go!
AppScout — ... In a blog post, vice president of product management Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson, the engineering director at Google, said that Chrome's beta tag had been removed "as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done." ...

Google Chrome Leaves Beta
SitePoint — ... . This might be the quickest a Google product has dropped the beta from its moniker — Gmail, for example, was in beta for almost 3 years. “We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done,” write Google’s Sundar Pichai, a VP of Product Management, and Engineering Director Linus Upson in a blog post today. ...

Google Takes Chrome Out of Beta
ReadWriteWeb — ... After only 100 days and fifteen updates, Google has taken the "beta" label off Chrome, its WebKit based browser. Given that the company has a penchant for keeping products like Gmail or Google Docs in perpetual beta, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Google already considers Chrome to be a 1.0 product. ...

It's Official: Google Chrome Exits Beta
Today @ PC World — Google has officially announced that its Chrome browser is no longer a beta version and made a full version of the product available for download. An update completed Thursday -- the program's 15th since its inception in early September -- is now available without a beta label attached. The news follows speculation started by an interview with a company executive just one day ago. "We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met, but our work is far from done," an announcement by Product Management VP Sundar ...

Google Chrome Officially No Longer In Beta
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... Since Chrome was built, Google have improved the performance and plug-ins.  Google Chrome’s speed is constantly increasing.  Since the first release of Chrome, Google has been able to increase the V8 JavaScript engine 1.4 times faster.  Some of the upcoming features that Gogole is working on includes RSS support, form auto-fill, extensions, bug fixes, security patches, etc.  The announcement was made by Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson on the Google Blog. ...

Google Chrome hits 1.0
Download Squad — ... Just in case you needed any proof that software version numbers are meaningless, Google has updated Google Chrome, it's web browser to version 1.0 (or 1.0.154.36 to be exact). Yesterday the latest version of the software was version 0.4.154.29. ...

As Chrome leaves beta, here’s an update on the Mac version
VentureBeat — ... Google officially announced that its web browser, Google Chrome, has left beta testing status behind today. That’s great news, the browser is amazing. But there’s a problem — it still only runs on Windows. As a Mac user, I decided to ask if Chrome leaving beta for Windows meant that a Mac beta version is near. ...

Google Chrome now finally out of beta
Obsessable News Feed — ... fester and spawn more speculation, Google has made its push and promoted the browser out of beta status. Google announced that it's dropping the beta label because it feels that it has met its intended goals for browser stability and performance. Since the first iteration of the browser, the company has improved JavaScript performance by almost fifty percent. Discussing other improvements in the browser's short history, Google pointed to better bookmark management and integration with other browsers, and working out some audio and video bugs that had been affecting streaming ...

Google Chrome 1.0 Released
Google Operating System — ... "We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done. We are working to add some common browser features such as form autofill and RSS support in the near future. We are also developing an extensions platform along with support for Mac and Linux," reminds us Google's blog. ...

Google shines off Chrome browser, shrugs beta tag [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network — ... Is this the shortest beta ever for a Google product? The company debuted their Chrome browser roughly 100 days ago and the beta tag is officially gone. Considering the Gmail logo still has the word beta in it, this might be a record. ...

Google Chrome, now minus the 'beta' part
Betanews — ... have remained officially in "beta" for so long, its Chrome browser release no longer has that moniker attached. Despite the fact that Google's browser, now on its 15th official release, will no longer be referred to as the "beta" of the product, a statement attributed to two of the company's engineers indicates that it has not exited the development phase. "We have removed the beta label as our goals for stability and performance have been met but our work is far from done," reads today's statement from product management VP Sundar Pichai and engineering director Linus ...

Google's Browser Sheds Its 'Beta' Label
Bits — ... . In the new browser wars, that’s a rounding error compared with Internet Explorer’s nearly 70 percent market share. On Thursday, just 100 days after its initial rollout, Chrome shed the “beta” label. Google, which is claiming 10 million active users of Chrome, is saying that the new browser is ready for prime time, as it has fewer bugs, is more secure and runs faster than it did three months ago. Chrome’s transition from beta to release version is surprisingly fast. Google is known for keeping products in test mode for years. For example, Gmail, which was first released in ...

Google’s Chrome Reaches Version 1.0
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... that Google wanted to move its nascent web browser, Chrome, out of beta and into a full release, soon. Soon apparently meant within 24 hours, as Google today announced that Chrome has exited beta and reached version 1.0. Either by downloading it ( ...

Chrome Shines A Little Brighter, Drops The Beta Tag With New Release
TechCrunch — ... earlier this week, Google has dropped the Browser’s Beta label after a mere 14 weeks (many Google products, like Gmail, have been billed as Betas for years). The browser now claims over 10 million active users worldwide. ...

Google Ships Chrome 1.0–Now For the To-Do List
Technologizer — ... a month ago, he told me that Chrome would ship when it displayed Web pages properly and was sufficiently reliable, not when Google had added every feature on its to-do list. Chrome in its 1.0 version reflect that: It’s got far fewer features than Firefox, Flock, IE, Opera, or Safari, and I’m sure some folks will come away disappointed simply because it’s ultimately pretty basic. The Google blog post on today’s news mentions two upcoming features: form autofill (I’m a little surprised the browser came out of beta without it) and RSS. And it reaffirms its intention to release ...

Chrome Is Polished, Officially Beta Free [Google]
Gizmodo — ... is confirming what I relayed to you last night, that Chrome is officially no longer a Google beta product. Its 15th release is free of that familiar Google "beta" badge, and though the install base isn't what some had hoped for, Google itself is bragging that the app has accrued 10 million active users in 100 days. So, like I was saying, here comes the mother of all browser wars. Oh, and yes, we would like a Mac version sometime in the next two months. [Google Blog via TechCrunch] ...

Google Chrome Out of Beta, Get Ready for Chrome Everywhere
Profy — ... Today’s release (it is the fifteenth one for the browser) is promised to go with better stability, especially for plugins, further improved speed, significantly improved management of bookmarks, additional privacy controls, and increased security. ...

Google Chrome is now fully polished and left Beta
PalmAddicts — ... Just yesterday on December 11th, at exactly 10:00AM sharp; Google made an announcement in its official blog: We're excited to announce that with today's fifteenth release we are taking off the "beta" label (from Google Chrome)! ...

Happy Birthday, Google Chrome - 1.0 today
Tech Digest — ... The browser the world didn't demand has come out of beta today, with Google releasing a "1.0" version of its Chrome web toy for a largely disinterested world to not bother with once again. You're probably reading this in Firefox or Internet Explorer, so it won't mean much, but the few Chrome users out there will be pleased to know that Google reckons Chrome is now less buggier, up to 1.5 times faster at loading Java... ...

Why Google Chrome Left Beta and Gmail Hasn’t
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... With Google removing the "Beta" label from its Chrome web browser, we not only get some enhancements to the software, but we also get some insight into why Google’s products stay in beta sooooo long. ...

New beta version of Google Chrome released
SuperSite Blog — Google Chrome blog: Since we took the "beta" tag off Google Chrome in December, we've been updating two release channels: 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. 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 ...

New Beta of Google Chrome Arrives, Plus Instructions for Extensions [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... which adds quite a few new features. If you recall, Chrome officially came out of beta in December, but this post confirms that developers have been doing a lot of work to improve it. Google claims its 25 percent faster on V8 benchmark tests and 35 percent faster on Sunspider, so if you are looking for improved JavaScript speed, you may want to get the new beta. Here is more on the new features. ...

New Beta of Google Chrome Arrives, Plus Instructions for Extensions
OStatic blogs — ... which adds quite a few new features. If you recall, Chrome officially came out of beta in December, but this post confirms that developers have been doing a lot of work to improve it. Google claims its 25 percent faster on V8 benchmark tests and 35 percent faster on Sunspider, so if you are looking for improved JavaScript speed, you may want to get the new beta. Here is more on the new features. ...

The Simple Things Missing in Google Chrome
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... Interestingly, Google Chrome is the only Google product that shed the beta label just months after the first public release while, for comparison, Google Docs stayed in beta for 3 years and Gmail took 5 years to graduate from the Google Labs. ...