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Google Releases First Pre-Beta of Chrome 2.0

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Jan 09, 2009

Summary

The Google Chrome team keeps releasing updates to Google's browser on an almost weekly basis, but it is interesting that the latest version in the developer channel is now already being called 2.0. This comes just about four months after Google first released its browser to the public. This new version (2.0.156.1) is only available in the developer channel, but it already points at where Google is planning to go with this next version of Chrome, which, besides many new features, also includes a new version of WebKit and Google's own implementation of the HTTP protocol.

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For us, this new version worked perfectly, but others had a different experience. If you want to try out the latest versions of Chrome, you can find instructions for how to subscribe to the development channel here.

New Features

Here are some of the features the team added since version 1.0 became available: