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Your New Google Chrome – More Speed, More Style

by Dinu

themes the blog general chrome news Your New Google Chrome More Speed, More StyleAn year after it’s first release, Google Chrome has a new stable release today, with a long list of new features and improvements. Let’s take a look at what they are.

Before we start, let me tell you something, if you have are a regular reader of ChromeStory.com, none of these features will be news to you, because I always bring you the latest news on new features, while  it is still being developed. But still, if you were not using Dev or Beta version of Chrome, it will be fun to go through them again, and start using these cool features ! So, read on.

Faster Page Loading and Java

I have experienced this difference ever since I started using Google Chrome, and it got better day by day. For me, this is the fastest application on my desktop, which starts within a second when Clicked. And on Java script processing, this version is 150% better than the very first release of Google Chrome. Speed really matters when you are online, so you can’t ignore Google Chrome’s achievement here. Kudos !

Sexy New Tab Pages.

You know what’s the best thing about Google Chrome that I love ? Its this : When Google Chrome first came out, most of the complaints and criticisms I heard was about the new tab page, showing the most visited websites to everyone, no option to re order or remove something from there etc. Now, this very new tab page is the most appreciated feature of Google Chrome.

Why ? Some serious work has gone in to the design and abilities of this page. Now you can remove websites from this page, re order, make them a list, and more. Read all about it here, my old post here.

Themes !!

Yes, themes are now available for all Google Chrome users. If you are looking for a change, try them !.  It’s really easy to change the theme here. Go to the Theme Gallery, and click on “apply theme” link next to the theme of your choice, and you are done ! You can always go back to the default theme if you want to.

HTML5 capabilities

HTML 5 is being added to Chrome with this release. In Google’s Words,

We’re very excited about HTML5 becoming standard in modern browsers, and continued to add HTML5 capabilities to this stable release. We’re particularly excited about the <video> tag in HTML5, which makes embedding videos in a page as simple as embedding regular images. The <video> tag also allows video playback without a plug-in

So, here is what you should do now, share this information with your non-chroming friend, and make them use Google chrome themes the blog general chrome news Your New Google Chrome More Speed, More Style

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Major Security Issue, Update Now !!

by Dinu

Google has identified  a major security risk to the browser and also added a security update for the browser. Here is more info from Google Chrome’s blog


Severity: Critical. An attacker might be able to run code with the privileges of the logged on user.
If you are using Google Chrome now, what you need to do, is check if your Google Chrome installation is latest.  I have explained how to do this here The version should show “ 1.0.154.64″ for stable version users. If this is not the current version of your browser, you will see an “upgrade” link next to it, click it, and then restart the browser when upgrade is done.
Along with this new security patch, this release also contains
  • A new notification at startup that makes it easier to set Google Chrome as the default browser. If you don’t want Google Chrome to be the default browser, you can click ‘Don’t ask again’.
  • A new version of Gears (0.5.16.0)

Most of you will have the latest version installed, automatically. Surprised ? What Google

Chrome Fans Blog explains here is so true, the auto update feature really rocks !!

New Beta Release for Google Chrome !!

by Dinu

Google released a new beta for Google Chrome. They have added the beta channel back, for some feedback,  since the new release has some important features added to it.

The best thing about this new beta is speed — it’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.

Some of the new features you can try out include form autofill, full page zoom and autoscroll(both thanks to a new version of WebKit), and a cool new way to drag tabs out to get a side-by-side view.

Do you want to try this new version ? I will tell you how to change to beta channel : here
News Source : Google Chrome Blog