The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius - Oscar Wilde
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Google releases Chrome 4.0
SEARCH OUTFIT Google has released version 4.0 its Chrome web browser, which it claims has more than 1,500 new features.
It only works under Windows of course, so Apple and Linux users will have to wait about a year before the Chrome browser on their machines is up to speed.
Actually the 1,500 features are file extensions that are created by developers to add functionality to Chrome. Goodness knows how many of these Firefox has and no one considered them as the highlight of a browser release before.
While the extensions are useful but not really anything spectacular, bookmark sync is probably more useful. It means you can share your bookmarks between multiple computers without needing to recreate your bookmarks or copy them from system to system every time you switch machines.
This release has a few more HTML5 APIs for developers to play with including Localstorage, Database API, and Websockets.
Google claims that the Chrome 4.0 browser's performance is a lot faster. Using Mozilla's Dromaeo DOM Core Tests, the browser has increased in speed by 42 per cent over the last stable release and 400 per cent since the first one. µ
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Best of all... when you get laid the experience will be 'realtime'! :)
From what I can see Chromium is the basis for Chrome and is primarily aimed at people interested in the technology behind Chrome.
Therefore, what you're running is *constantly* a beta (or alpha). The fact it does not say 'beta' in the about box/title bar does not take away from that..
I'm writing this on Chromium 5.0.306.0(which was updated just today from 4.0.xx)under Ubuntu Karmic and I have also a separate Google Chrome 4.0.249.43 install.
The essential differences between the two browsers is that Chromium is fully Open Source/GPLv2 while in order to install Chrome you have to "sign" an EULA;the developed by the community Chromium uses Launchpad to provide *daily* updates,while Chrome can be installed either directly(easily with the compatible package) or through a repository like one sourceforge.net houses;and of course Chromium uses the same round logo but with three different shades of blue instead of tricolor.
Google Chrome on Linux is supposed to be still in beta stage-which must be your point-but Chromium is no longer beta so I happily use Chromium and I don't feel neglected at all.
4 versions, 1500 plugins and it still has no option of hiding print headers and footers. In fact, Chrome has no print options at all!
Who cares it has fastest JS when it can't print w/o the usual garbage?!?
It is a deal breaker for most office workers.
Add the "compact" interface to the mix and you get an enthusiasts-only browser.
Ironically the only OS google neglects out there is... you guessed it - Linux! The one used primarly by... enthusiasts!
Makes you wander - how did they get so many users aboard? They've got good advertising for sure...
Go get laid, You are taking this browser thing entirely to seriously.
Trust me, once done, you will see this browser stuff in an entirely new light.
From the about box on Chrome for Linux
4.0.249.43
The beta has always been built off 4.0
Chromium will work for Mac OS X too :)
This article looks like spam to me and is for sure not very objective.
Apple and Linux users will have to wait
There's a big difference between computer and operating system, Apple is not an OS.
BTW in Linux there's also Chromium, a fork from the community, which is almost identical to the official Chrome from Google. So Linux users won't have to wait one (!) year for version 4.
That's pretty fast. Now I can surf pron faster than ever!