Posted on 05/25/2009 8:14:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Heads up, Google Chrome-hounds. Version 2.0 of your favorite, lightning-fast, "anti-establishment" browser has been released, and it's quicker and more feature-packed than ever. That is, if you take the word of the massive corporation that designed it.
Over at the official Chrome blog, Googleite Darin Fisher says that a few of the new additions were included in the re-beta-ed beta released back in March, but the new version does contain some new features and sports faster speeds and increased stability thanks to the proper squashing of some 300 bugs.
One of the new, and predictably appreciated, features lets you remove those dastardly thumbnails from your most visited pages that popped up every time you opened a new tab. It also includes a full screen mode and a form autofill feature. All welcomed additions, and the browser’s speed continues to impress (and improve apparently, which is even more impressive), but I wonder how many users have Chrome set as their default browser.
Care to enlighten me?
Read more: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/695819/Google-Chrome-20-Released.html#ixzz0GZw6p64h&B
I’m an avid fan of ad-blocking, so I’m very sceptical of any browser produced (and offered free!) by an advertising company.
Ping
Cool. Hope that they fixed the bugs in the first one.
I just downloaded 2.0 and it is immediately faster.
Google, like AOL, is a virus.
I don’t doubt its speed.
I question the wisdom of trusting my privacy to any advertising company.
gathers data my friends - beware-
Which bugs did you notice? I don’t know if it’s a bug, but paging back on forms is sometimes annoying.
That’s an interesting point. They have something called “incognito” mode, where it doesn’t track you at all- even your own browser doesn’t remember things.
I was not aware of “incognito mode” and I am not anti-Google.
I’m going to give it a try in the next few days and will probably remember to report back.
I can’t say I’m pro-Google, but a friend convinced me to try it, and it has been a good experience.
Is Chrome spyware?
ain’t that cute? a mindless browser
Feed em fish heads!
Google Bump
or
Boogle Gump
whatever
Google = Skynet. Filled with Obama lovers but so is Apple.
Debating between the iPhone or G-Phone but both companies are Lib and Obama lovers.
Google spys on everything. Skynet.
It’s simple — pick the best product, don’t worry about the politics of their makers :-)
It has grown on me. Less wasted space, still has ctrl+-, which what I like about Firefox. Does seem quicker and interface is better which takes a little getting used to.
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