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The new Chrome version is significantly faster in some respects (a 66 percent improvement in JavaScript performance on Google's own V8 benchmark suite) and adds features such a new settings interface with a search box that shows you the settings you're looking for as you type, the ability to synchronize passwords across your computers and encrypt them with your own secret passphrase for extra security, as well as the options to sync bookmarks, extensions, preferences, themes, and more. Here's the official changelog:
- New version of V8 - Crankshaft - which greatly improves JavaScript performance
- New settings pages that open in a tab, rather than a dialog box
- Improved security with malware reporting and disabling outdated plug-ins by default
- Sandboxed Adobe Flash on Windows
- Password sync as part of Chrome Sync now enabled by default
- GPU Accelerated Video
- Background WebApps
- webNavigation extension API
The latest stable build (10.0.648.127) is available now for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Those who currently have Chrome installed can use the built-in update function under the About Google Chrome menu item.
The release is light on new features because Google is no longer concerned about using version numbers to mark a significant development milestone. The search giant recently promised to accelerate the release cycle for Chrome and push out a new stable build every six weeks. Chrome 9 was actually released just over four weeks ago. Apparently users don't mind these frequent releases: the browser's market share is already over 10 percent.
User Comments: 8
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Since chrome likes to self update without notification, most people get updated automatically and when there no visible changes, such as UI tweak, most people don't ever realize they've been updated to a new version.
Typically if works the same, and the UI is the same, people don't mind updates.
Now the upcoming UI tweaks there thinking off may bother people (removing the address bar).
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Sadly sync does not work after the auto upgrade...Ubuntu 10.10
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By the way they are going they probably want to reflect their market share with their version number.
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Since they change versions with every new small update they gonna hit version 100 pretty fast
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In 9 years actually!
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Guest said:
Since chrome likes to self update without notification, most people get updated automatically
Didn't know that (I don't use Chrome). So no install directory choice, updates get pushed, and Google is pushing is removing support for a common video format in favour of its own format (WebM). Kind of reminds me of Microsoft and what it gets criticised for.
(I'm all for WebM, BTW.)
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You can choose your download directory. You can set it to automatically download to the directory of your choice, or you can have it ask which directory you would like to download to every time.
If you don't know what your talking about, it's best to keep your mouth shut, *******. It's like saying "I don't know how to drive a car because I don't have one, so all cars are bad".
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If you can't read, you better not write. I wrote that you can't choose the installation directory, not the download directory.
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