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Google brings Chrome back to beta
By siliconindia
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 20:06 IST |
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San Francisco: Internet giant Google's web browser Chrome could not sustain its non-beta status for a long time with the firm unveiling the new beta-version of the browser. Retracing its steps, Google, which stands fourth in the browser market, aspire to better compete against Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox web browsers, among others through the new version.
The firm had claimed to have achieved the stability and performance while removing the beta, but it has brought Chrome back to beta to improve its performance in terms of speed. Currently, the Internet firm holds 1.2 percent share of the worldwide browser market, according to market research firm Net Applications. Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominates the market, with a 67.4 percent market share in February, while the Mozilla foundation's Firefox browser had a roughly 22 percent share. Apple's Safari browser has an eight percent share.
The new Chrome offers web surfers a handful of new features, such as auto-filling of personal information on online forms and a new way for users to drag around tabs of different Web pages within the browser window. It will load certain types of web pages 25 percent to 35 percent faster than the current version of the browser; make it twice as fast than before. The new features were previously available to programmers using the developer version of Chrome, but Google has now packaged all the updates together into a more reliable beta test version that is available for download.
