Google Chrome has a new beta

Mar 22nd, 2009 | By Rosh PR | Category: Software, browser, google

Since we took the “beta” tag off Google Chrome in December, we’ve been updating two release channels: developer and stable. With our latest release, we’re re-introducing the beta channel for some early feedback — and if you’re reading the brand new Google Chrome blog, you are probably just the person to give it a try.

The best thing about this new beta is speed — it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.

Some of the new features you can try out include form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll (both thanks to a new version of WebKit), and a cool new way to drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view (shown below).

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