Google releases Chrome 14 beta
Google has released Chrome 14 to the Chrome beta testing channel, which includes, among other new features, the initial beta release of Google’s "Native Client" technology, first announced in 2010.
If you’d like to try out Chrome 14 beta, head on over to the beta downloads page.
Chrome 14 has several improvements including the much better OS X Lion integration we mentioned previously, along with print preview support for Mac OS X users. But possibly the biggest news is that Google’s Native Client technology is getting closer to prime time.
Native Client is a set of open source tools that allow Chrome to run compiled C and C++ code the same way the browser currently runs JavaScript or other common web programming languages. Native Code offers both a security sandbox and a set of interfaces that provide C and C++ bindings to the capabilities of HTML5. That means web application developers will be able to tap into desktop libraries to create faster, more powerful web apps.
