Google releases new beta: Improvements in speed and new features

Posted on March 18th, 2009, by blacknoise Comments Off

Google Chrome blog has announced a new beta version of their browser has been released. Main improvements in this version is the speed. According to Google its 25% faster V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current “stable” version. Other than the speed improvements this version has form autofill, autoscroll, full page zoom and something called drag tabs. See video for more info.

The download method used by Google needs BITS service to be running if not you will have to download the alternate web installer.(If you have difficulties in downloading use the alternate mirrors given below or the offline installer)

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Download Google Chrome BETA v1.0.154.48

Web installer (Chromesetup.exe)

Mirror (Rapidshare)

Offline Installer (Rapidshare-8.38MB)

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