arstechnica.com — Google has announced the official release of Chrome 5, a new stable version of the company's increasingly popular Web browser. This is the first stable release with official support for Linux and Mac OS X.
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altanarMay 26, 2010
Just some of the stuff: (Google doesn't mention things that end-users wouldn't necessarily be interested in, like extension API changes)New features:* Browser preferences sync* Incognito extensions* Desktop Notifications for extensions* HTML 5 features:--> Geolocation APIs--> App Cache--> web sockets--> file drag-and-dropUpdates:* Bookmark manager redesign* V8 Javascript engine improvements (30% speed increase over previous version)<a class="user" href="http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-chrome-stable-release-welcome-mac.html" rel="nofollow">http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-chrome-stab ...</a>
dan1101May 26, 2010
I'm using Chrome, but the lack of a proper title bar is frequenly annoying. Sometimes there is useful information in the page title. Haven't been able to find a way to fix that.
pentiumiiMay 26, 2010
doubtful considering i repair computers for a living all my windows machine had different results xp being the worse vista about same as my windows 7 machine but none them ran chrome whit out issues installed on both my ubuntu and my slackware machine to day and had better results will probably use chrome on my linux machine i have over 6 personal computer that use every day one triple boot dell laptop that for testing apps on nothing more that has all version of windows xp vista and windows 7 another laptop i use as my main machine that dell vastro v13 that run slacware linux and backtrack on a dual boot set up this is my go every where computer with over 8 hr batt life and has every tool i need to to work or play also have two older first gen Intel macbooks 15 and 17 that dual boot linux and OS X then there my desktop that run are setup as my work horses 1 run vista as it main and another run windows 7 as it main all dual boot in to linux and the are just my personal machine not to mention the kids computers and the wife and her mother computers I think i know enough about a computer to judge if it's either my computer or the app it self I have taken chrome through it's paces on all version of windows and although i had different result on each machine and different version of windows the one main thing remained on all version was the ability to render web pages correctly not all web pages but some of my favorites i had issues to me this is just to annoying to use as main browser despite it pluses on linux i far better result and OS X i probably wont waste my time as i don't use them much for any thing other then testing stuff and few other little thing here there mainly have them to keep up to date on mac for when i need to work on other peoples macbooks so ill just stick with arora as my default <a class="user" href="http://code.google.com/p/arora/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/arora/</a> there alink for you mac people who wanna see another webkit browser that fast but main plus with this browser is flash i have never had flash crash on me using this browser on my macbooks
zelgadissMay 26, 2010
@pentiumiiWell something is up.I'm getting 100/100 at <a class="user" href="http://acid3.acidtests.org/" rel="nofollow">http://acid3.acidtests.org/</a> since 4.0.I'm don't see the point in BSing you - I'm on Windows btw.Maybe you have to wipe the cache or something.You should file a bug with Google.
zelgadissMay 26, 2010
Try wiping your cache first.If you are still having trouble, file a report with Google via the "Report bug or broken website..." in the page menu.If you don't report it, they can't fix it.
rickthebrickMay 27, 2010
I have been using the 64bit version of chrome for linux for some time now. It is called unstable and each time an update comes out I test cnn video to see if they will play. So far I get nothing but a blank screen. The same goes for youtube. I would think since google owns youtube they could at least get those videos working.
Closed AccountMay 28, 2010
I like my browsers like I like my women: slim, light, damn fast, and plenty of plugins. Chrome meets and exceptionally beats all these criteria!
rabidbobMay 30, 2010
"Chrome for the noobs who think they're cutting edge and "techy", firefox for the power users. With Firefox, I have extensions to *block*, not hide ads."With any browser I know my operating system well enough to block ads without needing browser extensions; advert blocking add ons are for tech n00bs.