Sazar
08-05-09, 02:18 PM
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/latest-google-chrome-beta-is-30-percent-faster-supports-html5-and-is-prettier-too/
Google just released a new beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows PCs. The company claims that it is 30 percent faster than the current stable version of the browser (based on V8 and SunSpider benchmarks).
What may be more significant, though, is that this is the first version of Chrome that adds some support for HTML5, including video-tagging capabilities. The latest Firefox 3.5 beta also adopts HTML5, which allows for all sorts of cool things inside Web video like links and other interactive elements. It lets you treat video more like a Webpage. Along with Google’s acquisition of On2 today for its video codec, it looks like Google is getting behind open video in a big way. (Read this post from last year for more on the evolution of HTML).
The new Google Chrome beta is also prettier. Those themes we’ve been telling you about are now fully incorporated. And the new beta also improves the New Tab and Omnibox features.
When you create a new tab, Chrome shows you thumbnails of the sites you visits the most often (just like in Safari). These act as automatic bookmarks. Now, you can rearrange the thumbnails in any order you like by dragging and dropping them, or you can pin one down so that it doesn’t move even if you don’t visist it as much as other sites.
The Omnibox is Chrome’s all-in-one address and search bar. As you type words in, it gives you drop-down suggestions, which now have icons distinguishing between search results, bookmarks, and Websites.
Other than attributing features brought forth first in Opera to Safari, the article is pretty much a copy of the Google Chromium blog regarding the update :)
Yes, I HATE it when dumb people assign credit for something to someone besides the original creator.
Anyways, personal experience, the new Chrome seems just as snappy as before. Haven't really played with it that much. The new themes seem daft, honestly, but I am expecting more transparencies and more versions to be introduced in the future. There is definitely hope :D
I am still waiting to see if there will be a more advanced ad-block style tool that will debut for Chrome. The speed of Chrome + ad-block would be maximum win.
Side by side comparo of the FF 3.5.2 and Chrome 3.x builds shows that Chrome is seemingly light-years ahead in speed and the over all look blends in much more cleanly with Vista/Win 7. Tabs are still superior and the "speed dial" home page is still better than the speed dial extension for FF. FF has Chrome beat on the extensions front however :D
I will check on Chrome's performance on Win 7 x64 when I get home tonight and see if it still has issues with x64 or if those have been resolved. Plus, I'll probably do a more in-depth write-up when Win 7 RTM debuts.
Google just released a new beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows PCs. The company claims that it is 30 percent faster than the current stable version of the browser (based on V8 and SunSpider benchmarks).
What may be more significant, though, is that this is the first version of Chrome that adds some support for HTML5, including video-tagging capabilities. The latest Firefox 3.5 beta also adopts HTML5, which allows for all sorts of cool things inside Web video like links and other interactive elements. It lets you treat video more like a Webpage. Along with Google’s acquisition of On2 today for its video codec, it looks like Google is getting behind open video in a big way. (Read this post from last year for more on the evolution of HTML).
The new Google Chrome beta is also prettier. Those themes we’ve been telling you about are now fully incorporated. And the new beta also improves the New Tab and Omnibox features.
When you create a new tab, Chrome shows you thumbnails of the sites you visits the most often (just like in Safari). These act as automatic bookmarks. Now, you can rearrange the thumbnails in any order you like by dragging and dropping them, or you can pin one down so that it doesn’t move even if you don’t visist it as much as other sites.
The Omnibox is Chrome’s all-in-one address and search bar. As you type words in, it gives you drop-down suggestions, which now have icons distinguishing between search results, bookmarks, and Websites.
Other than attributing features brought forth first in Opera to Safari, the article is pretty much a copy of the Google Chromium blog regarding the update :)
Yes, I HATE it when dumb people assign credit for something to someone besides the original creator.
Anyways, personal experience, the new Chrome seems just as snappy as before. Haven't really played with it that much. The new themes seem daft, honestly, but I am expecting more transparencies and more versions to be introduced in the future. There is definitely hope :D
I am still waiting to see if there will be a more advanced ad-block style tool that will debut for Chrome. The speed of Chrome + ad-block would be maximum win.
Side by side comparo of the FF 3.5.2 and Chrome 3.x builds shows that Chrome is seemingly light-years ahead in speed and the over all look blends in much more cleanly with Vista/Win 7. Tabs are still superior and the "speed dial" home page is still better than the speed dial extension for FF. FF has Chrome beat on the extensions front however :D
I will check on Chrome's performance on Win 7 x64 when I get home tonight and see if it still has issues with x64 or if those have been resolved. Plus, I'll probably do a more in-depth write-up when Win 7 RTM debuts.