New Chrome browser ready for the world

Mar 08, 2011
Google on Tuesday released a finished version of its speedy new Chrome Web browsing software for desktop or laptop computers.

Google on Tuesday released a finished version of its speedy new Chrome Web browsing software for desktop or laptop computers.

The latest version of Chrome promised quick and responsive handling of software running in the Web browser.

"We realize that speed isn't just about pure brawn in the browser," engineer Tim Steele said in a blog post announcing the latest Chrome release.

"It's also about saving time with simple interfaces."

Google improved settings for bookmarks, passwords, searches and home pages as well as enhanced protection from websites booby-trapped by hackers with malicious code.

This video is not supported by your browser at this time.

The latest Chrome browser software is available free online at google.com/chrome. Earlier versions of the Web browser already being used in computers will be automatically updated, according to Google.

Microsoft's is the most widely used in the United States followed by Firefox, Chrome and Apple's Safari.

Explore further: Breakthrough platform technology for improving effectiveness of online learning

More information: chrome.blogspot.com/2011/03/speedier-simpler-and-safer-chromes.html

add to favorites email to friend print save as pdf

Related Stories

Chrome 4.0 beta web browser launched

Nov 04, 2009

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google has released its latest beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows, which promises faster browsing, bookmark synchronization and more.

Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Alpha

Jan 14, 2009

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the full release of Chrome 1.0 in December, Google has just released Chrome 2.0 alpha that brings many noticeable improvements over Chrome 1.0. With this new alpha release of Chrome 2.0, ...

Google Chrome gets boost with Sony tie-up

Sep 01, 2009

Sony said Tuesday that its Vaio-brand computers sold in the United States would have Google's Chrome as their default Internet browser, boosting the search engine giant's fight against rival Microsoft.

Recommended for you

Mozilla lab wants scientists to step out of analog age

14 hours ago

(Phys.org) —Talk about big ideas. Not satisfied to rest on laurels of having brought forth the open source browser Firefox, Mozilla—defined by some as a global project, by others as one of the key open-source ...

'Watch Dogs' video game a sign of the times

Jun 17, 2013

Across the dizzying, colorful show floor at last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, there were games on display where players could become all manner of things, like a throat-slashing 18th century pirate, ...

Winners and losers at this week's E3

Jun 15, 2013

Since the first battles over "Pong" machines in local arcades four decades ago, video gamers have loved good competition. And this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo—the industry's largest annual gathering—presented ...

Cube Slam: Google's video game plays up WebRTC, WebGL

Jun 14, 2013

(Phys.org) —Google has a new game called Cube Slam where you get to slam a cube into another player's screen target. If you hit the cube against the other player's screen three times, terrific, the screen ...

User comments : 4

Adjust slider to filter visible comments by rank

Display comments: newest first

Scientifica
1 / 5 (6) Mar 08, 2011
Chrome is just a spy instrument...DON'T USE IT!
Skultch
4.8 / 5 (6) Mar 08, 2011
Chrome is just a spy instrument...DON'T USE IT!


Gonna support that claim? Work for Microsoft, do you?
GuruShabu
5 / 5 (6) Mar 08, 2011
Spy?
So stick with IE8 and let your details spill through the entire Internet.
Everybody spies in the Internet.
But at least G Chrome allows you to SET what you want public and what not.
jimbo92107
5 / 5 (5) Mar 09, 2011
Fast. Quick response, relatively simple interface, imports FF and IE bookmarks... Not much to rag on. Built-in flash and pdf support. Nice.

More news stories

Origins of 'The Hoff' crab revealed (w/ Video)

The history of a new type of crab, nicknamed 'The Hoff' because of its hairy chest, which lives around hydrothermal vents deep beneath the Southern Ocean and Indian Ocean, has been revealed for the first ...

3D printing tiny batteries

(Phys.org) —3D printing can now be used to print lithium-ion microbatteries the size of a grain of sand. The printed microbatteries could supply electricity to tiny devices in fields from medicine to communications, ...