14 DAY TRIAL // Google engineers have announced the launch of a new Chrome developer built. Immediately available for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X, Chrome 12.0.742.12 is tasked with altering the browser’s UI while addressing some performance issues. The new Developer release also updates the user interface dedicated to the program’s preference pane.
Jason Kersey, of the Google Chrome development team, is proud to announce in a blog post that “The Chrome Dev channel has been updated to 12.0.742.12 for all platforms.”
Bringing an identical set of changes to both Mac and Windows users, as well as to Linux users of the browser, “This release continues to address UI and performance issues, as well as updates the Sync preferences UI,” Kersey blogs.
As usual, fans of the open source web browser are invited to give the SVN revision log a glance to get the full scoop on the changes included in this developer build.
Earlier this week, Chrome 11 reached final status with a new release on the Stable channel.
Launched for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame, Chrome 11 contains several key improvements, including speech input through HTML, as well as numerous security patches.
Users of the stable version of Chrome (11) are now be able to translate what they’re saying into other languages with Google Translate. The feature is also present in Chrome 12 developer builds, as well as in Chrome 11 Beta builds.
For use on a Macintosh computer, Google Chrome 12 requires a machine based on the Intel processor architecture running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (all incremental versions are supported, including Mac OS X 10.6.7), a minimum 128 MB of RAM, and roughly 100 MB of free hard disk space.
All versions of Google Chrome for Mac, including Dev, Beta, and Stable, can be downloaded via the link below.