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Google has upgraded its Chrome by releasing the beta version of Google Chrome for Windows. However, the latest beta version won’t be available for Mac OS X or Linux.
Previously, Google had started the bookmarking feature, Google Sync to bookmark on multiple machines. But now the users can bookmark not only among multiple browsers but also in the multiple systems. It is the Xmarks extension which is being used extensively for doing bookmarks.
Google Chrome bookmarks is also synchronized with the Google bookmarks service by using Chrome’s message-based sync technology. It is also linked with iGoogle and the Google Toolbar to offer a better service.
Google Chrome is available in three versions like developer preview, beta and the stable edition for the broadest audience. The current 4.x series will be associated with many features like Native Client, which lets JavaScript applications to run and WebGL, which is 3D interface designed to meet the same task with hardware-accelerated graphics.
According to the sources, there is also a plan to develop the beta version of Mac.
Chrome programmer Mike Pinkerton said, "Our goal for this Friday is to be able to count our Mac P1 M4 release blocker bugs on one hand (we're in the 20s now).”
“And Google is willing to put more manpower onto the Mac version,” he added.
"Everyone should have their P1 list practically at zero by the end of this week. If you are not going to be able to reach this, let me (or other triage folk) know ASAP so that we can get you some help.
Chrome has increased its share in browser usage to 3.6 percent till October and nearing to the rivals like Safari, which has a share of 4.2%. But it is still far away from the top two browsers like IE (64.6%) and Firefox (24.1%).
In the mean time Google has also increased the performance of its Chrome by emphasizing on the performance such as the speed to load the software, load Web pages, and run Web-based JavaScript applications.
"As with every release, this new beta comes with many speed improvements. In particular, as Web applications we use every day become increasingly dynamic, browsers like Google Chrome need to be able to construct and change elements on web pages as fast as possible," said programmers Idan Avraham and Anton Muhin in a blog post.
"We've improved performance scores on Google Chrome by 30 percent since our current stable release, as measured by Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests, and by 400 percent since our first stable release," they added.
