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New Google Chrome Beta: Nearly Twice as Fast as the Original
jkOnTheRun — ... Aside from strategic smartphone wars firing salvos today the browser battles are also continuing. Who would have thought we’d be fighting mobile tech on two fronts at the same time? Google is offering a new beta version of Chrome today: their minimalist and utilitarian portal to the web claims a few new features and plenty more speed. How much more speed? When compared to the original beta version, the new Chrome is almost twice as fast when tested against both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks. Of course, any Chrome user worth their weight in gold isn’t likely using ...

Google releases new Chrome Beta
D' Technology Weblog — ... After taking off the “beta” tag from Chrome in December, Google re-introduces the beta channel for some early feedback. This new beta is 25% faster and has some new features: form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll, and a cool new way to drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view (shown below). ...

New Google Chrome beta: up to 35% faster
SlashGear — ... back in September 2008, and the search giant surprised even more people by dropping the beta tag from the browser only a few months later.  Now there’s news of a new version of Chrome, still free and back with beta status, but reportedly between 25- and 35-percent faster than previously, depending on benchmarking.  There are also new features like side-by-side tab views and autoscrolling. ...

Back to Beta: Google Chrome Now Faster
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... the developer channel, so if you want to try out new features with the reassurance that it will be relatively stable, the beta channel version is the way to go. And Google has some new “tricks” it wants users to try out. And what Google wants users to really try out right now is the newest Javascript engine in Chrome. It’s through changes in the Javascript engine that Firefox 3.5 (nee 3.1), Safari 4, Chrome, and IE8 have been dueling over performance numbers. According to Google’s blog post : The best thing about this new beta is speed — it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and ...

Happy Birthday: A Look Back at One Year of Google Chrome [Google Chrome]
Lifehacker — ... , and Chrome's the winner in JavaScript and CSS parsing and, with the exception of some Internet Explorer 8 weirdness, page loading. Mar. 17-22: New beta brings the speed (and extensions?) [image] Users of Chrome's beta channel see JavaScript improvements of 25-33 percent , depending on whose test you're marking against. Under the hood, an ...