Google Chrome is already a faster browser and today Google released another version of the Chrome browser which is even faster than the previous version. Google claims that the version 2.0 of the browser announced today will run 30% faster in rendering Jacascript heavy web pages.
In this release along with speed boost there are some significant improvements made to the browser. The beta version of this browser is released back in March and some of these improvements have already made it to that release.
From the Chrome Blog
Here are some improvements that you’ll notice right away:
Improved New Tab Page: The most requested feature from users was the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page. Now you can finally hide that embarrassing gossip blog from the Most Visited section.
Full Screen Mode: If you’ve ever given a presentation or watched a large video using Google Chrome, you might have wished you could use every last pixel on your screen for the content. Now you can hide the title bar and the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 or selecting the option in the Tools menu.
Form Autofill: Filling out your information in forms over and over again can be tedious. Form autofill helps by showing information you’ve previously entered into the same form fields automatically. If at any point you want to clear out your information, that’s easy to do from the Tools menu.
And here are some improvements that aren’t immediately visible, but will make web browsing with Google Chrome more enjoyable:
Increased Stability: Google Chrome is more stable than ever–we have fixed over 300 bugs that caused crashes since launch.
Increased Speed: Making the web faster continues to be our main area of focus. Thanks to a new version of WebKit and an update to our JavaScript engine, V8, interactive web pages will run even faster. We’ve also made sure that JavaScript keeps running fast even when you have lots of tabs open. Try opening a bunch of web applications and then running your favorite benchmark. You can read more about V8 in our JavaScript scalability post on the Chromium blog.
If you have already using Google Chrome it gets updated automatically if not you can download the latest version from here.
I haven’t used Chrome yet, you know what, Firefox still rocks 🙂
Hi I’m using it from the launch itself, its good and fast but when too many sites have problems with it, mainly which has rich contents like flash,java etc.