Google Chrome 5 officially released

Posted on Wednesday, May 26 2010 @ 17:50 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google has released Chrome 5, a new stable release for Windows and the first non-beta version for Linux and Mac users. Google Chrome 5 promises enhanced performance, HTML5, and many other new features. Built-in support for Flash isn't included yet in this release, but according to Google this feature will follow soon.
Today’s stable release also comes with a host of new features. You’ll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across multiple computers, but also browser preferences -- including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings. Meanwhile, for avid extensions users, you can enable each extension to work in incognito mode through the extensions manager.

Our stable release also incorporates HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. For a taste of HTML5’s powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps.
More info at the Google Chrome Blog.


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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