Apr 28, 2011 06:35 GMT  ·  By

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last evening (April 27th) the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 11.0.696.57 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.

The new Google Chrome 11 browser contains some interesting improvements, such as speech input through HTML, which helps developers to create useful and innovative web applications like the Google Translate’s speech feature.

"The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 11.0.696.57 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Chrome 11 contains some really great improvements including speech input through HTML." - was stated in the official release announcement.

"Speech input through HTML is one of many new web technologies in the browser that help make innovative and useful web applications like Google Translate’s speech feature possible." - said Josh Estelle, Software Engineer at Google.

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Speech input through HTML - Image courtesy of Google
Google Chrome 11 also brings a new refreshed logo (see the screenshot below), which was previously introduced in the beta versions a few weeks ago.
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Google Chrome 11 under Ubuntu 11.04
There are also numerous bug fixes in Google Chrome 11, which can be viewed on the official blog announcement, here. Google Chrome 11.0.696.57 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures with binary packages for the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system, which will be released in a few hours.

Google Chrome is a revolutionary web browser that makes surfing the Internet more efficient and ergonomic by placing modules on each new opened tab.

Instead of showing a blank page, Google Chrome offers you eight thumbnails, displaying the most visited websites, a history search bar and even the last ten closed tabs.

Google Chrome is extremely fast, from the moment you open it until it is closed. It’s available for the Ubuntu platform!

Download Google Chrome 11.0.696.57 right now from Softpedia.

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