New Google Chrome 2 prove to increase speed

Webmaster Tools May 26th, 2009

The new Google Chrome browser has roll out last few days ago and it has some new improvements made into the previous version. Although Google Chrome still very new to users and not many end users are using it, the browser seems to focus on speed of browsing and concentrate on user friendly. For my personal reference, Google Chrome always open faster at first time and use less memory compare to Firefox which always take more than 5 seconds to open at first time.

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Increased Speed
Making the web faster continues to be our main area of focus. Thanks to a new version of WebKit and an update to our JavaScript engine, V8, interactive web pages will run even faster. We’ve also made sure that JavaScript keeps running fast even when you have lots of tabs open. Try opening a bunch of web applications and then running your favorite benchmark. You can read more about V8 in our JavaScript scalability post on the Chromium blog.

Improved New Tab Page
The most requested feature from users was the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page. Now you can finally hide that embarrassing gossip blog from the Most Visited section.

Increased Stability
Google Chrome is more stable than ever–we have fixed over 300 bugs that caused crashes since launch.

Full Screen Mode
If you’ve ever given a presentation or watched a large video using Google Chrome, you might have wished you could use every last pixel on your screen for the content. Now you can hide the title bar and the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 or selecting the option in the Tools menu.

Form Autofill
Filling out your information in forms over and over again can be tedious. Form autofill helps by showing information you’ve previously entered into the same form fields automatically. If at any point you want to clear out your information, that’s easy to do from the Tools menu.

The benchmark shows the new version is almost twice as fast compared to original version which is a very big improvements. There are too much browsers available already and for me, Google Chrome just an alternative browser when both IE and Firefox doesn’t suit my preference.