Thursday, August 6, 2009

New Google Chrome Beta is Faster

Our main complaint with the existing Google Chrome browser was the occasional (and unexplainable) lag during start up and while browsing. We found it to be enough of an irritation that everyone in the office returned to FireFox or Internet Explorer.

The new beta release may change those choices:

According to Google engineers, the latest "beta release shows over 30% improvement on both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over our current stable channel release."

It's hard to scoff at a measurable gain of 30%.

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