Google Chrome 2.0 for Linux and Mac OS X
The buggy Google Chrome is extending its capabilities. Google Chrome 2.0 will be made installable in Linux and Mac OS X. Google Chrome 2.0, according to experts, is an ambitious upgrade of the buggy Google Chrome 1.0 not only because it was designed to run under Linux Ubuntu 8.10 (and other Linux distros) and Mac OS X. It’s a bold move for Google to come up with Chrome 2.0 by promising the public better performance and greater flexibility.
Some features of the new Google Chrome 2.0 besides Greasemonkey (Mozilla Firefox plugin) support according to initial documentations are as follows:
Google Chrome 2.0 will be made for Linux and Mac OS X
- Autocomplete, so Chrome can remember what you’ve typed into web forms and enter them again. “A lot of people asked for that. It turns out it’s more complicated than it seems on the surface,” Rakowski said.
- Full-page zoom, so that using Ctrl+ and Ctrl- to increase or decrease elements on a web page works better. Before, only text grew or shrank, but now other elements do, too.
- Browser profiles, so you can set up a browser configuration with particular settings such as bookmarks and cookies.
- The ability to import bookmarks from the Google Bookmarks site.
- Autoscroll, so clicking a mouse’s middle button, then moving the mouse, lets you slide around larger pages. This is handy for panning around large images without constantly zooming in and out.
- Faster Safe Browsing, a feature to issue warnings about sites that may conduct phishing attacks or other malicious behaviour.
- Under the hood, the update gets a new version of the open source WebKit engine for converting a web page’s descriptive HTML and CSS code into the page displayed on a computer. Chrome’s current stable release uses the same WebKit version as is used in Apple’s Safari 3.1, but the new Chrome developer preview uses WebKit 528.8, which is faster and supports features such as CSS canvas drawing for 2D shapes such as lines on maps or custom-generated charts.
- An update of Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine from version 0.3.9.3 to 0.4.6.0. JavaScript is used for more elaborate web pages, and the new version is faster, Rakowski said.
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I think this isn’t the time yet for this action. They have to ensure first that the browser is really doing great before they extend. It’ll be useless if the browser is still not stable.
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jessie Reply:
January 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Camper,
Honestly, i also think that the Google Chrome 2.0 release is premature. But you see, this is how computer businesses roll. They have to release new updates for people to stay interested (even if the new product is unstable like the Google Chrome browser).
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WOW!!!
People… come on… DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!!! As my father always told me as a kid, THINK before your act!!!
Now-a-days, I think, research and then act accordingly.
If you need to respond to something immediately, go with your gut feeling, but make sure you are reading it correctly by practising using it on all your decisions.
Google CHURNS MY guts!!!
Good Luck in whatever you choose to do!!
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