{"id":4288,"date":"2009-03-17T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2009-03-18T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T14:25:52","slug":"google-chrome-gets-a-newer-stabler-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/google-chrome-gets-a-newer-stabler-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome gets a newer more stable beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Google announced the latest beta version of its Chrome browser. This update provides speed and stability increases to the already very zippy browser. It adds new features like <span style=\"font-size: 100%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=142464\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=142464', 'form autofill']);\" id=\"sf8h\" title=\"form autofill\"  target=\"_blank\">form autofill<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=96810\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=96810', 'full page zoom']);\" id=\"wsv_\" title=\"full page zoom\"  target=\"_blank\">full page zoom<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=95743#webpage\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=95743#webpage', 'autoscroll']);\" target=\"_blank\">autoscroll<\/a> (both thanks to a new version of WebKit), and a cool new way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=95622#resizing\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?answer=95622#resizing', 'drag tabs']);\" id=\"esuk\" title=\"new way to drag tabs\"  target=\"_blank\">drag tabs<\/a> out to get a side-by-side view (shown below).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Google said, <em>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">The best thing about this new beta is speed \u2014 it&#8217;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.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Cb4VGgCESEA\/Sb_SI2ZYL6I\/AAAAAAAASW4\/4KmjAT3YBeE\/s1600-h\/graph1.png\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Cb4VGgCESEA\/Sb_SI2ZYL6I\/AAAAAAAASW4\/4KmjAT3YBeE\/s1600-h\/graph1.png', '']);\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314197134803218338\" style=\"width: 365px; cursor: pointer; height: 197px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Cb4VGgCESEA\/Sb_SI2ZYL6I\/AAAAAAAASW4\/4KmjAT3YBeE\/s400\/graph1.png?w=720\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Cb4VGgCESEA\/Sb_SJgTHKZI\/AAAAAAAASXA\/roEZPzje7E8\/s1600-h\/graph2.png\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Cb4VGgCESEA\/Sb_SJgTHKZI\/AAAAAAAASXA\/roEZPzje7E8\/s1600-h\/graph2.png', '']);\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314197146051226002\" style=\"width: 365px; cursor: pointer; height: 197px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Cb4VGgCESEA\/Sb_SJgTHKZI\/AAAAAAAASXA\/roEZPzje7E8\/s400\/graph2.png?w=720\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the drag tabs feature in action<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wn97WbalJwM&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wn97WbalJwM&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p>You can download the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/landing\/chrome\/beta\/index.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/landing\/chrome\/beta\/index.html', 'Google Chrome BETA here']);\" id=\"frnm\" title=\"Google Chrome BETA\"  target=\"_blank\">Google Chrome BETA here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be on the Chrome cutting edge even more and try-out the newest feature you can get the developer updates by subscribing to the developer channel which contains the newest features for Google Chrome which are not published to the beta channel because they may not be stable yet.<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to developer channel<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"padding: 1px 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Download and run the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chromium.googlecode.com\/files\/chromechannel-2.0.exe\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','download','http:\/\/chromium.googlecode.com\/files\/chromechannel-2.0.exe']);\" style=\"color: #0066cc; outline-style: none;\"  target=\"_blank\">Google Chrome Channel Changer<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/chromium.googlecode.com\/files\/chromechannel-2.0.exe\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','download','http:\/\/chromium.googlecode.com\/files\/chromechannel-2.0.exe']);\" class=\"linkification-ext\" title=\"Linkification: http:\/\/chromium.googlecode.com\/files\/chromechannel-2.0.exe\">http:\/\/chromium.googlecode.com\/files\/chromechannel-2.0.exe<\/a>).<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 1px 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Click the circle next to the channel you want to get updates from.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 1px 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Click Update to save your choice.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 1px 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Click Close.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding: 1px 0px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose About Google Chrome.<\/span><\/strong>\n<div style=\"margin: 5px 0px 0px 10px; 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