14 DAY TRIAL // The latest Beta update of Google Chrome came under a week since the previous release, version 2.0.172.27. For Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta, Google is promising that end users will be able to enjoy extra horsepower when it comes down to websites leveraging JavaScript.
The Mountain View-based search giant revealed that an experiment with the browser's underlying JavaScript engine V8 was tested with 2.0.172.30 in an attempt to increase Chrome's performance on websites using large quantities of JavaScript. Google did not provide the specific details associated with the V8 modifications it implemented into Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta.
“Google Chrome 2.0.172.30 has been released to the Beta channel. The changes in this release since 172.27 are: complete translations in all languages; an experimental change in the V8 JavaScript engine that might improve page load times for pages with a lot of JavaScript; a fix for a crash when using the French spell check dictionary; a fix for a crash when visiting a site with more than 50 feed links,” stated Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager.
Google just can't seem to get enough out of Chrome when it comes down to JavaScript performance. The company wasn't shy of touting V8 when it first released the browser, and it only continued to applaud JavScript speed boosts from release to release, build 2.0.172.30 being just the latest interim development milestone of the browser designed to kick JS performance up a notch.
In fact, just last week, Google made available for download Chrome 2.0, replacing version 1.0 as the stable variant of the browser offered by default to end users. The Mountain View-based company indicated a performance boost of up to 30% for JavaScript pages for Chrome 2.0 in comparison to the previous stable version of the browser. Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta is simply taking the legacy one step further.
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