Google Releases Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday January 9, 2009 @09:42AM from the what-is-too-fast-if-it's-pre-beta dept.

Nick Fletcher writes "Just a few short months after the initial release, Google has released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0. It sports a few new features including form auto-completion, full-page zoom, 'profiles,' and Greasemonkey support. It seems the only notable feature would be profiles, which allows users to separate out their homepage, history, and bookmarks on a per user or category basis. It seems Google is still playing catch-up but they're definitely moving at a pace unknown to some of their competition. The full list of new features is available in the release notes."

2 of 326 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Not a great 2.0 by dominator · 2009-01-09 09:56 · Score: 5, Informative

They updated the version of WebKit that they're using to one that passes the ACID3 test. That's something.
Re:Not a great 2.0 by cgenman · 2009-01-09 12:15 · Score: 5, Informative

I'm rather fond of Opera's solution. All of the text and images are increased in size, but the page remains the same width. That way L/R scrolling is eliminated (unlike PDF's or the iPhone) but all of the elements of the page are larger and more usable.

--
The ______ Agenda