Google has released the first beta of Chrome 4, the most recent version of its increasingly popular web browser.
For those wondering if they have banged their head and woken up in 2018, don't adjust all your sets. Google works in hyperwarp compared to the rest of the browser industry, slapping a most important version number on browser updates that include only minor feature improvements.
It's taken Mozilla about seven years to get to version 3.6 of Firefox, for instance, while Google has raced to version 4 of Chrome in slight over a year.
The standout feature of Chrome 4 is bookmark synchronization – It is a feature that Internet Explorer and Firefox have offered for years through extensions such as Xmarks.
Chrome's version permits you to log-in to your browser with your Google account details and synchronize bookmarks across multiple machines in real time - which means a bookmark added to your work machine will come into view instantly on your home PC.
Google also claims to have made noteworthy performance improvements in Chrome 4. "We have improved performance scores on Google Chrome by 30 percent since our current stable release, as measured by Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests, also by 400 percent since our first stable release," claim Google software engineers Anton Muhin and Idan Avraham on the Google Chrome blog.
The official Google release notes say the browser is just compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista, though it installed perfectly on Windows 7 64-bit machine.
For those wondering if they have banged their head and woken up in 2018, don't adjust all your sets. Google works in hyperwarp compared to the rest of the browser industry, slapping a most important version number on browser updates that include only minor feature improvements.
It's taken Mozilla about seven years to get to version 3.6 of Firefox, for instance, while Google has raced to version 4 of Chrome in slight over a year.
The standout feature of Chrome 4 is bookmark synchronization – It is a feature that Internet Explorer and Firefox have offered for years through extensions such as Xmarks.
Chrome's version permits you to log-in to your browser with your Google account details and synchronize bookmarks across multiple machines in real time - which means a bookmark added to your work machine will come into view instantly on your home PC.
Google also claims to have made noteworthy performance improvements in Chrome 4. "We have improved performance scores on Google Chrome by 30 percent since our current stable release, as measured by Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests, also by 400 percent since our first stable release," claim Google software engineers Anton Muhin and Idan Avraham on the Google Chrome blog.
The official Google release notes say the browser is just compatible with Windows XP SP2 and Vista, though it installed perfectly on Windows 7 64-bit machine.
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