Google Chrome Comes Out of Beta for Mac, Linux and Fastest Version or Windows

Google Chrome today introduced stable (out of beta) release of Chrome browser for Mac and Linux and as announced on official blog its the fastest Chrome version yet along with most significant speed improvements.

The new Chrome stable version also host few new features as well along with inclusion of HTML 5 features and new bookmark manager build with HTML 5.

The new features includes synchronization of your bookmarks and browser preferences across multiple computers including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page-zoom settings.

HTML 5 among the new features Chrome provides support for features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. To test the HTML 5 features in Chrome, one may browse websites built with HTML5 such as scribd.com, Gmail's dragging and dropping attachments and enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps.

The incorporation of HTML 5 features are gradually being added to all modern browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome and now Google Chrome being the one that has added few more. IE however has been started with IE 8 version onwards with minimal features though, however there is strong commitment from Microsoft for strong support if CSS3/ HTML5 in its IE 9 version.

Google Chrome also experimenting with Flash Player integration in the browser which is yet not included by default with this stable version however it is expected to be enabled with full release of Flash Player ver. 10.1 soon in next version onwards.

Google Chrome team concluded that in short span of time i.e. since its first beta release back in September 2008 Chrome has improved by 213 percent and 305 percent in Javascript performance by the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks. The conclusion is an outcome of series of interesting speed tests for which see video below which is filmed at actual web page rendering times.