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An year after it’s first release, Google Chrome has a new stable release today, with a long list of new features and improvements. Let’s take a look at what they are.

Before we start, let me tell you something, if you have are a regular reader of ChromeStory.com, none of these features will be news to you, because I always bring you the latest news on new features, while  it is still being developed. But still, if you were not using Dev or Beta version of Chrome, it will be fun to go through them again, and start using these cool features ! So, read on.

Faster Page Loading and Java

I have experienced this difference ever since I started using Google Chrome, and it got better day by day. For me, this is the fastest application on my desktop, which starts within a second when Clicked. And on Java script processing, this version is 150% better than the very first release of Google Chrome. Speed really matters when you are online, so you can’t ignore Google Chrome’s achievement here. Kudos !

Sexy New Tab Pages.

You know what’s the best thing about Google Chrome that I love ? Its this : When Google Chrome first came out, most of the complaints and criticisms I heard was about the new tab page, showing the most visited websites to everyone, no option to re order or remove something from there etc. Now, this very new tab page is the most appreciated feature of Google Chrome.

Why ? Some serious work has gone in to the design and abilities of this page. Now you can remove websites from this page, re order, make them a list, and more. Read all about it here, my old post here.

Themes !!

Yes, themes are now available for all Google Chrome users. If you are looking for a change, try them !.  It’s really easy to change the theme here. Go to the Theme Gallery, and click on “apply theme” link next to the theme of your choice, and you are done ! You can always go back to the default theme if you want to.

HTML5 capabilities

HTML 5 is being added to Chrome with this release. In Google’s Words,

We’re very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers, and continued to add HTML5 capabilities to this stable release. We’re particularly excited about the <video> tag in HTML5, which makes embedding videos in a page as simple as embedding regular images. The <video> tag also allows video playback without a plug-in

So, here is what you should do now, share this information with your non-chroming friend, and make them use Google chrome

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Okay, people out there, waiting at the door steps of Google Chrome family, because we do not have those fancy addons as you firefox dudes do, come on in, you are most welcome to check out google chrome plugins, which will be pushed very soon to  stable versions. ( already available on dev versions )

A few facts about Chrome Extensions, as seen on the web and Google websites.

• Extensions will stick to the minimal nature of Chrome browser itself.
• Extensions will appear on the bottom of the browser.
• Google will manage all extensions
• Extensions will run as separate processes ( like tabs, and you will see them on chrome task manager)
• Just like the browser, extensions also will be updated without the user even knowing about it.
• No need to restart the browser after you install an extension
• There will be a new extensions gallery set up for Chrome
• extensions are collections of web pages that use HTML, JavaScript, CSS, so they’re not difficult to write

Chromestory.com and Extensions

I will take few extensions and play wit them using my dev version, and will give you more information about them, before they are officially announced. Also, you will get to see news and tips and more about Chrome Extensions on Chromestory.com in coming days. So, Stay tuned ! Subscribe today !!

photo by Tiago • Ribeiro

Google Chrome team has launched the Offical Google Chrome Blog : here. You can subscribe to the blog for more updates and news about Google Chrome, just like we do, but officially. ..

Just over 6 months ago we launched our web browser, Google Chrome. Since then, we’ve pushed 29 updates, each working to improve Google Chrome’s speed, stability, and usability.

Today we’re launching the Google Chrome Blog. Here we will post feature releases, announcements, and updates on other things we’re working on.

Google released a new beta for Google Chrome. They have added the beta channel back, for some feedback,  since the new release has some important features added to it.

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.

Do you want to try this new version ? I will tell you how to change to beta channel : here
News Source : Google Chrome Blog

Google Chrome ? What is it ?

If you do not know it yet, Google Chrome is a Web Browser developed by the team at Google. It is based on the Chromium open source browser project. At present, Google has only the windows version of Chrome released and they are working on the Mac and Linux versions of it.

I use browsers all the time, like everyone else and I use many of them and that made me compare Google Chrome with other browsers. This blog, is the result of that observation that I have been doing , experiments, and researches I did about Google Chrome, while trying to know more about it.

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