14 DAY TRIAL // The relatively recent, Google Chrome 6.0 beta has been updated to bring it one step closer to a stable release. Google Chrome 6.0.472.51 brings a number of stability fixes, some more UI polish and more translations.
"The beta channel for Chrome has been updated to 6.0.472.51 for all platforms. It contains many stability fixes, UI updates, and some additional translation work," Jason Kersey, of the Google Chrome team, wrote.
While the bulk of the work going into the latest beta has long been finished, the team is still rounding out the rough edges and fixing the remaining bugs.
No new features are being added at this point, but the UI is still seeing some minor tweaks. If you're interested, you can check out the full change log listing all of the fixes and the updates in the SVN repositories.
The Chrome team is well on its way to bringing the beta release up to stable channel quality, a number of updates have been issued in the past couple of weeks.
However, it may still be a while until Google Chrome makes the switch from the Chrome 5.0 to Chrome 6.0 in the stable channel, depending on how the bug fixing process progresses.
In the meantime, other Chrome developers are working on Google Chrome 7.0, the next major release. The first Chrome 7.0 dev build has landed this week and we're already seeing some major new features being previewed in the cutting-edge Chromium builds.
One interesting new feature is Chrome Labs, a new section for features too experimental or too niche to be enabled by default for everyone.
Even more important, Google Chrome 7.0 will start leveraging the GPU in order to accelerate some and eventually most of the rendering tasks, be them 2D or 3D.
Google Chrome for Windows is available for download here. Google Chrome for Linux is available for download here. Google Chrome for Mac is available for download here.