Friday, August 7, 2009

New Google Chrome beta is “30 percent faster”


Google has unleashed a brand new beta edition of its Google Chrome web browser, promising a speed hike of over 30 percent. Whoa!

The supercharged performance isn’t the only reason to grab the new beta: the Google Chrome blog also promises improvements to the New Tab page and Omnibox. For instance, the New Tab page now allows you to move websites in and out of your Most Visited slot by clicking and dragging.

The Omnibox (which combines URL entry, search and more) now has a better drop-down menu, with new icons added to distinguish between searches, bookmarks, sites from your browsing history and suggested sites.

Lastly, Google Chrome now has themes, allowing you to customise the browser’s look.

If you want to try it out yourself head over to the Google Chrome beta download page. It’s currently only available for machines running Windows Vista or XP SP2+.

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