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Chrome 2 announced, 30 percent faster

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A new stable version of Chrome is now available for download, even as it is being automatically rolled out to current users. Internally dubbed as Chrome 2, Google claims that the update is now up to 30 percent faster when loading JavaScript-heavy pages. Darin Fisher, of the Google Chrome Team, wrote in the Official Google Blog: "Additionally, we've added some useful features like form autofill, full screen mode, and the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page."

Chrome has generated interest due to its unique architecture that completely separates the content of each tab. As such, users are able to monitor the actual memory consumption of a site, and crashes in any tab will not bring down the other tabs. Chrome commands 2 percent of the browser market at the moment, according to an April 2009 report by research firm Forrester.

For more on this story:
- check out this blog post at the Official Google Blog
- check out this article at eWeek

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thanks Chrome for allowing me to remove thumbs of sites I don't like - thanks a lot Chrome but I'm keeping my Firefox running for now with the cool New Tab King extension (newtabking.com)

Despite of the fact that Chrome is in lack of an extension system yet, (quite few people know) there are some pioneering add-ons existed already. e.g., Cleeki has provided its add-on for Chrome. You can consider Cleeki as an alternative to IE8 accelerators, only superior. Select any text, and Cleeki can search/share/publish on the Internet and preview the results immediately in the same page. Check it out yourself:

http: //blog.cleeki.com/?p=70

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