Google Chrome has done it again. Less than three months after hitting Ludicrous Speed, Google has sped up its Chrome browser once again.
Google has released a new beta version today boasting another 30 percent boost in speed. In addition, there are also some new bells and whistles that let you customize the look and feel of the browser.
For starters, you can now edit your top 9 sites that appear when open up a new tab. You can now shift any website that you would like to access quickly into one of the slots.
You can also now use Google Chrome themes, which let you chance the appearance of your browser. You have to use the new beta version in order to have this functionality. You can check out some of the new themes at the bottom of this post.
To switch themes, just visit the Themes Gallery.
As for the performance improvements:
Beyond the improvements in JavaScript execution in this latest beta, there are a host of other improvements that should help Google Chrome make the most of your network connection. For example, when you open a new web page while other web pages are still loading, Google Chrome is now smarter about prioritizing the requests for the new page — for instance, fetching text, images, and video for your new page — ahead of the requests from the older pages. Loading pages on this beta release should also be faster than ever with DNS caching, more efficient DOM bindings, and using V8 for proxy auto-config.
Did we mention that its fast? Wow.
To check it out for yourself, just download the Google Chrome beta here.
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