Andre Yoskowitz
3 Sep 2010 12:41
Google has celebrated Chrome's second birthday this week by launching Chrome 6 for Windows, Mac and Linux computers.
The search giant introduced the browser on September 2nd, 2008.
Chrome 6 has been placed in Google's "stable" channel.
"The last couple of years we've been focused on speed," added Brian Rakowski (via CW), Chrome's director of product management. "A lot of things have changed in the last two years [in browsers], but the one thing we've learned is that speed matters. It's something Google's always believed in and it resonates with people."
Chrome 6, very importantly, is three times faster at parsing JavaScript than Chrome 1. "That's a pretty big deal," says Rakowski, of the achievement, "but we have a lot more speed improvements to come."
Being tested for the latest versions of Chrome is hardware acceleration, which will move some tasks from the CPU to the GPU in an effort to boost performance.
Furthermore, Chrome 6 will have some minor cosmetic changes, like the bookmark icon being moved to the right side of the URL bar.