Google Chrome for Mac and Linux comes out of beta

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 09:51

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Google has released stable versions of its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux, along with a new Windows version, and says all three are considerably faster than previous versions.

In a posting on Google's blog, Chrome product manager, Brian Rakowski, said: "Since last December, we've been chipping away at bugs and building in new features to get the Mac and Linux versions caught up with the Windows version, and now we can finally announce that the Mac and Linux versions are ready for prime time."

Rakowski added: "The performance bar for all three versions keeps getting higher: today's new stable release for Windows, Mac and Linux is our fastest yet, incorporating one of our most significant speed improvements to date. We've improved by 213 percent and 305 percent in Javascript performance by the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks since our very first beta, back in Chrome's Cretaceous period (September 2008)."

The latest release also has some new features including the ability to synchronise browser preferences across computers, new HTML5 capabilities and a revamped bookmark manager. Currently installed versions update automatically.