New Chrome Beta Polished For Speed

Written by inAm from http://www.temptingmagazine.com on March 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments

According to Google, the first thing you’ll notice about its new beta version of Chrome Browser is speed.

The V8 JavaScript engine has been streamlined for speed. According to a blog post by Brian Rakowski, the new browser is “25 percent faster on our V8 benchmark and 35 percent 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 Beta’s features are inherited from its Webkit rendering engine, including full page zoom and support for autoscrolling. Other features include basic form autofill and a way to drag tabs into a side-by-side view.

The actual announcement of the beta seems to be foregoing version numbers. It appears as if the Chrome launch process will host a “stable” Chrome and a “Beta” chrome concurrently. The latest stable version lost its Beta label in December.

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).

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