14 DAY TRIAL // Google has just released the first stable version of Chrome 6.0. Google Chrome 6.0.472.53 is now out of beta and deemed solid enough to sport the stable label.
The previous beta release was Chrome 6.0.472.51, so the changes are minimal. There is however a big number of security fixes which have only now been revealed.
"Today, we’re releasing a new stable version of Chrome that is even faster and more streamlined. Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance," Brian Rakowski, Product Manager for Google Chrome, announced.
"We’ve also been working on simplifying the 'chrome' of Chrome. As you can see, we took the already minimalist user interface and stripped it down a bit more to make it easier to use," he listed some of the improvements in the latest stable release.
"We combined Chrome’s two menus into one, revisited the location of the buttons, cleaned up the treatment of the URL and the Omnibox, and adjusted the color scheme of the browser to be easier on the eyes," he added.
You can read more about the changes and new features in Google Chrome 6.0 in the beta release announcement. No new features have been added since, the team focused on bug fixes and a little more UI polish. Compared to Chorme 5.0, the previous stable release, there are plenty of changes.
The first Chrome 6.0 beta was released less than a month ago. Work on Google Chrome 7.0 has started already and the first releases have landed in the dev channel.
Google intends to accelerate the development process and now plans to release a Chrome stable once every month and a half rather than once every three most like until now. So the Google Chrome 7.0 stable release should be coming very soon.
Google is also celebrating two years since the first Chrome beta landed.
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.