Menlo Park (ip-192.com): It’s all about numbers: Google has released update 4.0 to its Chrome browser, promising improved security and more than 1,500 new features through extensions, along with an Opera-like bookmark sync function. "We are excited to usher in the new year with a bundle of browser goodness for the stable version of Google Chrome," said Nick Baum, product manager for Chrome, in a company blog post.
Google also claims its new version offers a 42 percent JavaScript performance improvement, based on Mozilla's Dromaeo DOM Core Tests benchmarks.
"With today's new stable release, all Google Chrome users on PCs can access over 1,500 new features through our new extension system." The extension tool lets users choose the applications they want to install, and helps manage how they are used. This may be particularly useful when it comes to navigating through the 1,500 new features.
Google has added several HTML5 and JavaScript APIs, including the Web SQL database API and the local storage portion of the Web Storage API, which let sites store data on the user's local PC; the Web Sockets API, for sending data over a persistent bi-directional channel; and the notifications API, for serving up alerts onto the browser's status bar.
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