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Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the ooh-shiny dept.

ddfall writes "Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux — the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms. Chrome 5.0.375.55 is available to download from google.com/chrome. Users who currently have Chrome installed can use the built-in update function."

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  1. Google is catching on fast by microbee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just look at the version numbers. It's already 5! On the contrary Firefox is still lagging behind with 3.6.

    1. Re:Google is catching on fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well my "Hello world" program is on version 9001.

    2. Re:Google is catching on fast by Kabloink · · Score: 5, Funny

      Microsoft has both of them beat with IE 6.

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    3. Re:Google is catching on fast by natehoy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, but remember, they are shooting for version 10^100. They have a long way to go.

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    4. Re:Google is catching on fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You can get the premium version, which is IE 8, if you go to the microsoft site. I'll try to find a link.

      I actually prefer the the sites that are available on IE 8 to the ones that are available on Firefox. IE offers more options.

    5. Re:Google is catching on fast by phil+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

      Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

      Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

      Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

      Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

      Marty DiBergi: I don't know.

      Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

      Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

      Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

      Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

      Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

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    6. Re:Google is catching on fast by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 4, Funny

      The web is only 3.0 !!?

      This is confusing!

    7. Re:Google is catching on fast by Draek · · Score: 4, Funny

      Bleh, Emacs is already at version 23. Take that, Microsoft!

      Note: if you're thinking of replying "Emacs isn't a web browser!", you clearly have never used Emacs.

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    8. Re:Google is catching on fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      So it has ISO compliance or something?

  2. Chome 6 by jbeaupre · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for Chrome 6 ... only because I like the sound of hexavalent chromium.

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  3. Re:Sidebars? by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the wide-screen TFTs everywhere these days a bookmark sidebar has become a must-have for me. I cannot stand bookmark pull-down menus.

    You must be one of those... <shudder>... full-screen people. Dude... windowing environments were invented for a reason!

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