What's Chrome doing back in beta? Well, the version that was given full 1.0 status a few months ago is still the stable product, but Google has now opened a distribution channel for a beta version. The beta will feature more experimental tweaks -- the latest is a speed boost -- but it may also have more bugs, which Chrome developers hope users will report back on.
Google opened a new channel on Tuesday to distribute its latest beta release of the Chrome browser. The company also began on Tuesday a blog devoted exclusively to the Chrome browser.
Google launched Chrome as a beta in September of 2008; a final-release 1.0 version come out in December. By last month, it had grabbed 1.12 percent of the market behind Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, according to data from Net Applications. Since then, Google has issued 29 updates, each revision finessing Google Chrome's speed, stability and usability, according to a post in the new blog by Jason Toff of the Google Chrome team.
Speed is clearly the most noticeable improvement in the latest Chrome beta release, Toff noted. Compared to the current stable version, this new Chrome beta is some 25 percent faster on Google's V8 benchmark and 35 percent faster on the Sunspider benchmark, he said. It is nearly twice as fast as the first Chrome beta version, he added.
Google launched Chrome as a beta in September of 2008; a final-release 1.0 version come out in December. By last month, it had grabbed 1.12 percent of the market behind Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari, according to data from Net Applications. Since then, Google has issued 29 updates, each revision finessing Google Chrome's speed, stability and usability, according to a post in the new blog by Jason Toff of the Google Chrome team.
Speed is clearly the most noticeable improvement in the latest Chrome beta release, Toff noted. Compared to the current stable version, this new Chrome beta is some 25 percent faster on Google's V8 benchmark and 35 percent faster on the Sunspider benchmark, he said. It is nearly twice as fast as the first Chrome beta version, he added.
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