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Google Chrome Beta 20.0.1132.11 Is Here

Google Chrome Beta incremented the build number to version 20.0.1132.11, available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame). Although the official announcement informs only of stability and bug fixes, there are some notable changes available. In the current release, the development team gr...

23 May 2012
07:55 GMT

Google Chrome 19.0.1084 Beta Is Available for Download

Google has been churning out new Chrome versions with a fury for a long time now and it's not about to stop. The dev channel has just been updated and so has the stable channel, and now it's the beta channel's turn. Google Chrome 19.0.1084.41 beta is now available for all users. As you can imagine, th...

3 May 2012
04:21 GMT

Chrome 19 Beta and the New Aura Desktop Debuts on Chromebooks

Just as the new Aura window manager/desktop made its debut in the dev channel, Chrome 19 graduated to the beta channel on Chromebooks. Owners using a Samsung Series 5 or an Acer AC700 will be able to take the new desktop for a spin in the beta channel which is a tad more stable than the dev one. The new Aura desktop...

11 April 2012
09:11 GMT

Download Google Chrome Beta 19.0.1084.15

Google has just updated the beta channel for their web browser, incrementing the version number to 19.0.1084.15. The new revision is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and features the “Other devices” menu in the new tab page, previously available only in Dev. T...

10 April 2012
11:33 GMT

Chrome 19.0.1084.1 Dev Available, Paves the Way for Chrome 19 Beta

With Chrome 18 stable out the door and onto people's computers, Google is working on getting Chrome 19 from the dev channel to the beta channel. The latest dev channel release, Chrome 19.0.1084.1 is probably the first step towards that and a beta should be landing soon enough. In the meantime, the latest dev re...

30 March 2012
09:15 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.140 Available for Download

It looks like Google Chrome development team is no longer switching on and off various functionalities in the web browser and released a new update for the beta channel, sporting several modifications. Google Chrome beta 18.0.1025.140 is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Fram...

27 March 2012
04:26 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.133 Available for Download

Having a new beta build for Chrome released on a daily basis is no longer a surprise. It would probably feel a little odd when Google stops doing it. The latest revision for the beta channel of the browser is 18.0.1025.133, but it is available only for Windows and Chrome Frame.The previous build had Swiftshader turne...

23 March 2012
13:02 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.117 Available for Download

There was plenty of activity on the dev channel of Google Chrome in the past days. The development team has been busy, releasing new builds on a daily basis (except on Sunday) for about a week. Modifications consisted in turning off features (print preview is currently disabled but will be enabled in the next releas...

21 March 2012
06:39 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.58 Released

The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to build 18.0.1025.58. There aren’t too many entries in the change list and some of them refer to the functions that have been disabled in the previous update. Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.58 reinstates GPU acceleration of the Canvas 2D, which in the previous...

15 March 2012
04:57 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.56 Available for Download

The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to build 18.0.1025.56, but only Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms got to maintain the incremented revision number. The development team retracted the update, as Flash was running incorrectly. Until Flash problems are solved, Mac users will continue to use v...

13 March 2012
05:45 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.54 Released

Google Chrome’s automatic update mechanism was quite busy this week as the web browser received updates for its Android version as well as the beta and stable channels. The stable release has received security updates as a result of the vulnerabilities uncovered by Sergey Glazunov at Google’s Pwnium cont...

9 March 2012
04:49 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.45 Available for Download

Google updated the beta channel of their web browser to build 18.0.1025.45, which is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame ). It brings to the table a small set of notable fixes, among which the "signed in" state, which was not displayed on the "new tab" page. Some users experi...

1 March 2012
07:25 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.39 Available for Download

The latest build for Google Chrome beta, 18.0.1025.39, is now available for download for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame). It features big fixes for Mac and Windows as well as an updated JavaScript engine (V8 3.8.9.8). The current release deals with several crashes and repairs the probl...

22 February 2012
04:17 GMT

Download Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.33

There is a new build for Google Chrome on the beta channel, available for all supported platforms: Window, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. It takes care of several crash issues as well as problems with the “Back” button hanging on a frequent basis. The latest release of Google Chrome beta, 18.0.1025.33, com...

16 February 2012
03:04 GMT

Download Google Chrome Beta 18.0.1025.11

The beta channel for Google Chrome has been updated to version 18.0.1025.11. The current build is available for all supported platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame) and among the most notable changes is enabling 3D content for older GPUs. It also touches on GPU accelerating 2D Canvas. However, the GPU-acc...

10 February 2012
06:03 GMT

Google Chrome 18 Beta Adds GPU-Powered Canvas, CPU-Powered WebGL

Now that Google Chrome 17 is in the stable channel, Google Chrome 18 has been pushed to the beta channel. The latest chrome to wear the beta label comes with two big new features, both focusing on graphics. Accelerated 2D HTML5 Canvas On the one hand, 2D HTML5 Canvas graphics are now hardware accelerated, resulting...

10 February 2012
05:25 GMT

No Flash for Google Chrome on Ice Cream Sandwich

Google’s just announced Chrome browser for devices running under Android 4.0 or newer will not enjoy the benefits of Flash, Adobe has confirmed. This is in line with what Adobe revealed last year, namely that it would no longer develop the Flash Player for mobile devices. Chrome for Android Beta does not of...

8 February 2012
13:03 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 17.0.963.46 Disables Profile Shortcuts

Mozilla is not the only one today to deliver a new build for their web browser. Google also incremented the version number for the beta channel, refreshing the build to 17.0.963.46. Although the release notes are more than sparing in details, mentioning only fixes for a bunch of stability and UI issues, the modifica...

31 January 2012
05:07 GMT

Download Google Chrome Beta 17.0.963.44

Google has released a new beta build for its web browser, incrementing the version number to Chrome 17.0.963.44. The changes featured in this installment are pretty technical, but absolutely necessary for improving overall functionality and performance of the application. One notable bug that plagued the previous ve...

26 January 2012
04:06 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 17.0.963.38 Disables GAIA Photo

The newest build for Google Chrome beta, 17.0.963.38, is available for all supported platforms except for Chrome OS. It focuses on improving overall stability of the browser and fixing some UI issues. One of the most important changes of this release is disabling GAIA profile info. The decision has been taken becaus...

19 January 2012
08:12 GMT

New Google Chrome Beta Updates Omnibox Prerender Percentage

Google has released a new build for the beta version of their web browser. The development team made some modifications to the application and incremented the build number to 17.0.963.33. The most important of them is increasing the Omnibox Prerender percentage. Also, the overall opt-in has been raised to 99%. This ...

12 January 2012
04:56 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 17 Can Pre-load Web Pages

The current beta version of the web browser is actually the same one as the Dev released a few days ago. The new features introduced in Google Chrome Beta 17.0.963.26 are designed to improve both speed and security of the browser. Faster browsing is generated by Omnibox’s pre-rendering capabilities, which mea...

6 January 2012
04:11 GMT

Google Chrome Beta 16.0.912.63

The latest Google Chrome Beta, 16.0.912.63, comes with unexpectedly few modifications. The changelog records a small amount of entries since the previous release which improved on the Omnibox and the synchronization process. The changes available in the technical details refer to functionality of the web browser, as...

8 December 2011
04:02 GMT

Download Google Chrome 16 with Multiple-Profile Support

Finally! Google Chrome Beta has moved to version 16, bringing support for multiple profiles. And it only took them a few days to slide the feature from Dev into Beta.What this means is that you can have all the personal stuff synchronized in any Google Chrome you use. This is done by signing into the browser wit...

3 November 2011
12:23 GMT

Google Chrome Beta, Faster than a Tesla Coil

Google has released a new beta of its constantly evolving Google Chrome web browser. Google Chrome 5.0.375.23 Beta brings all of the new features that have trickled into the dev channel builds of late, things like support for the Geolocation API and theme sync, but it also marks a significant improvement in JavaScrip...

5 May 2010
07:17 GMT

Google Chrome 5.0.342.7 Beta Comes with Automatic Translations

Google has announced the release of a new update to Google Chrome in the Beta channel. Google Chrome 5.0.342.7 Beta has been pushed for Linux users ahead of the Windows and Mac builds in order to address an SSL issue. The biggest, new feature in Google Chrome 5.0.342.7 Beta, apart from the usual array of bug fixes, ...

25 March 2010
05:01 GMT

Google Chrome 5 Beta Review

There's hardly a piece of software more important for a desktop operating system these days than the web browser. Even the most casual of users will end up employing one several times per day. You could argue that Linux has always had a wide variety of browsers to choose from and, if you just look at the numbers...

13 March 2010
10:54 GMT

Google Chrome Now Set to Take Over the World

The latest Google Chrome build, 4.0.249.30, has just been upgraded to the Beta channel on all platforms. This new beta release is an important milestone as it marks the first betas available for both Mac and Linux users which have been waiting more than a year to get to try a fully-baked Chrome on their machines. Th...

9 December 2009
04:31 GMT

Bookmark Sync Arrives in the Latest Google Chrome 4.0 Beta

Google has come up with a layered development cycle for its web browser, Chrome. This way, new features can be implemented at a fast pace, while also making sure that users also have more stable but less cutting-edge versions available. Halfway between the experimental dev channel release and the stable version, the ...

3 November 2009
02:41 GMT


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