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By John Oates • Get more from this author

Posted in Applications, 5th May 2010 14:38 GMT

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Google claims the latest beta of its Chrome browser is a third faster than the previous release.

The claimed improvement is based on V8 and SunSpider benchmarks.

Other benefits include the ability to synchronise bookmarks and browser preferences on different machines via your Google account.

Developers said they'd bowed to popular demand by allowing the installation and use of Chrome extensions in porn mode incognito mode.

It also supports parts of HTML5 like Geolocation APIs and App Cache.

There are versions of the beta to run on Mac, Linux or Windows machines.

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