The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Feeds

Google polishes another Chrome beta

Still no sign of Mac OS X version, though

Customer Success Testimonial: Recovery is Everything

Google has added support for HTML 5 video in its latest beta for the Windows-only Chrome browser it first released last autumn.

Mountain View has also loaded a slew of tweaks into Chrome 3.0.195.4, including a redesigned new tab page and an overhauled Omnibox for searching and inputting internet addresses.

Many of the features found in the latest beta were tested extensively by developers who had been handed a preview of this iteration of the browser.

Google has also added a few more themes to Chrome that allow users to customise their browser with colours, patterns and images.

The company also made a song and dance about the browser's credentials to load faster-than-a-speeding-bullet. Well, not quite...

"As always, we continue to focus on speed, and this beta release shows over 30 per cent improvement on both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over our current stable channel release," claimed Google's software engineer Glen Murphy.

However, Google Chrome for the Mac OS X remains missing in action. Currently, it only supports Microsoft Windows XP and Vista.

An early developer test version of the browser created for Apple's platform can be downloaded here. ®

Agentless Backup is Not a Myth

Latest Comments
Anonymous Coward

@A J Stiles

The problem is with system calls. Any program - open source or otherwise - that makes use of OS-specific system calls will not compile and run on any other OS.

For example, a program written for the iPhone will not compile for a WinMo phone since it will make heavy use of the iPhone API.

The difficulty in porting code written for one OS to another OS is directly related to the difference in the available system calls.

0
0

Re: Hello?

> Chrome is based on Apple's Webkit.

Apple's Webkit which is based on Konqueror's KHTML (GPLv2).

The toe bone connected to the heel bone,

The heel bone connected to the foot bone,

The foot bone connected to the leg bone,

The leg bone connected to the knee bone........

0
0
Anonymous Coward

google toolbar and chrome...

if google toolbar worked in chrome I would use chrome... but their own toolbar does not work in their own browser.

0
0

More from The Register

SCO vs. IBM battle resumes over ownership of Unix
Zombie lawsuit back and wants to suck the brains out of Linux
Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++
Plus: Now officially OK to admit you never used STL algorithms
Interwebs taunt Sir Jony over Apple eye candy makeover
Hey Ive, Ive... add more unicorns, willya?
Apple: iOS7 dayglo Barbie makeover is UNFINISHED - report
Plus: You don't like the icons? Blame marketing
Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7
So long, Oracle! Don't let the door hit you on the way out
Shy? Socially inadequate? Fiddling with your phone could help
App 'tells the brutal truth' about social inadequates' chatup lines
Java EE 7 melds HTML5 with enterprise apps
New release arrives with GlassFish, NetBeans support
 breaking news
'Office Facebook' firm Tibbr wants you to PAY for mobe-meetings app
Great idea. Punters won't cough for it though
 breaking news
The only Waze is Google: Ad giant tipped to gobble map app 'for $1.3bn'
Pac-Man-satnav-ish upstart in bidding war with Apple, Facebook
 breaking news
PM Cameron calls for modern, programmable computers! (We think)
IT education musings to G8 chiefs to mystify IT industry