Google Chrome 3.0 arrives
Google Tuesday launched Version 3 of its Chrome Web browser, which keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25% vs. the latest stable release. Improvements to tabs and video/audio handling round out the major new features in the release of Google Chrome, which can be downloaded here. The update comes about a year after Google Chrome made its debut. "This release comes hot on the heels of 51 developer, 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes in the past year," Google writes on its blog.
A PC World review finds Chrome to offer faster page loading while offering customizable themes, and an updated tab page. The new version of Chrome comes out just in time, because Sony has announced that it will be preinstalled on Sony's Vaio line of computers, marking Google's first attempt to really push the browser into the hands of users.
