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Google Chrome Beta Updates, Boasts Speed and New Features [Beta Beat]
Lifehacker —
[image] Windows only: Google Chrome has released a fresh new beta that integrates many of the features available in the nightly releases, including significant speed improvements and a few cool new features. Apart from the speed increases which claim a 25% boost in their V8 benchmarks and 35% on Sunspider (see the graphs below for a better idea) the new beta includes form autofill, full page zoom, autoscroll, and the snazzy tab drag feature you see in the video for breaking tabs into a side-by-side view. As I said, none of these are all that new if you've been keeping up with the latest and greatest in the nightly builds, but if you prefer the slightly more stable beta build, ...
Google Chrome Beta Updates, Boasts Improved Speed and New Features [Beta Beat]
Lifehacker —
[image] Windows only: Google Chrome has released a fresh new beta that integrates many of the features available in the nightly releases, including significant speed improvements and a few cool new features. Apart from the speed increases which claim a 25% boost in their V8 benchmarks and 35% on Sunspider (see the graphs below for a better idea) the new beta includes form autofill, full page zoom, autoscroll, and the snazzy tab drag feature you see in the video for breaking tabs into a side-by-side view. As I said, none of these are all that new if you've been keeping up with the latest and greatest in the nightly builds, but if you prefer the slightly more stable beta build, ...
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). ...
Google Chrome Beta
Coated —
Announced this morning on the Google Chrome Blog was the availability of the new Google Chrome Beta release. The biggest improvement with the new beta are the speed gains.
In speed tests conducted, the new beta proved itself to be 25% faster on the V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark when compared to the current stable version of Chrome.
Some of the new features incorporated into the Chrome beta include form autofill, full page zoom, autoscroll and drag tabs so that you can get side by side viewing.
Chrome users will now have three options when it comes to ...
Back to Beta: Google Chrome Now Faster
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
googlechrome.jpg By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Google’s Chrome reached the 1.0 version in December, though I felt it was a little rushed, intended to exit beta so that bundling deals could be made. Since then, Google has been updating builds in two release channels: developer and stable. Their latest release, re-introduces the beta channel, however. The reason for this is that the beta channel is better tested than 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 ...
