Chrome Beta Gains Native Flash Support, Speed Increases...

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Chrome Beta Gains Native Flash Support, Speed Increases and More
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Posted by: Glenn

Google has announced the release of a new beta version of their Chrome browser. According to the company, this update incorporates one of Chrome's most significant speed and performance increases to date, with 30% and 35% improvement on the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over the previous beta channel release. It also includes an integrated Flash Player plug-in and new HTML5 features like geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. So grab it now from the Google website - it's pretty awesome. All you need is Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/1513.html

Rightondamark · Senior Member Joined: 07 Jan 2007 Posts: 290

It's blazing! Cool

Ray Finkle · Senior Member Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 454

I don't get it not as fast as safari for me plus it looks horrible. Using it right now may give it a few hours before it goes to the trash bin.

g5g5 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 7:57 am Post subject:

I originally started using it with a netbook and haven't looked back. I certainly don't see this release ending that trend. It's pretty darn snappy.
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Texark · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 11:13 am Post subject:

I like the clean look and the overall performance. I haven't used Safari in a while now. It always hangs and crap on me. Safari is the best mobile webkit-based browser though. I have fewer problems with it compared to the desktop version.

epic_ed · Member Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 185 Location: Indiana

I switched over from Safari after they fully implemented the bookmark manager. I haven't looked back since.

decaturnc · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Raleigh, NC

I just started using Chrome again after I realized they had made some seriuos improvements. I find myself using it more than Safari and Firefox. As long as they continue to improve it I'll continue to use it.

Ben Tex · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 12:35 pm Post subject:

Chrome has certainly taken the lead with support for HTML5. Steve? lol

macmanmacman · Veteran Member Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 1691

nice job google but you still left g5 owners using leopard in the dark!!!

intel only what a joke..

Cameo · Member Joined: 19 Jan 2007 Posts: 51 Location: Exeter, UK

Great, it's noticeably faster than before. Shocked

Hopefully the flash player crashes will stop now too.
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g5g5 · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject:

jthawke · Member Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 57

It still resizes the browser window when downloading a file. Since it doesn't do that in Chrome for Windows, it's something that CAN be fixed. It's nitpicking to be sure, but it's enough to keep me using FF still.

fgiurleo · New Member Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4

This is thing is slow as Dog SH**T
Are you kidding me.

decaturnc · Member Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Raleigh, NC

Finally downloaded the new version. Nice!

The Pontificator · Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 10:02 pm Post subject:

How does one insert a search box to the right of the address box? How does one add other icons like "print", "history" etc.?

From what I can see, you can't do any of these things? WTH? Evil or Very Mad


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