Google Chrome gets 30% more speed, adds better search and themes

Google Chrome just keep getting better ! This time around, the engineers at Google got it to work up to 30% quicker and faster with the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks. Also, with the new beta, we have an improved New Tab page and the Omnibox.

The new New Tab page customization options

Rearrange website thumbnails on the New Tab page by clicking and dragging thumbnails

Now you can bump up something dignified and refined into that top Most Visited slot with a simple click and drag of your mouse. You can pin website thumbnails to a particular spot so they don’t disappear even if your browsing habits change. Last but not least, you can hide parts of the page if you don’t want to see them using the layout buttons on the top right of the New Tab page.

More speed

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.

The improved Omnibox

Google has now added small icons (not favicons) in the drop down results to distinguish between sites / search results / bookmarks now.

Google Chrome Theme Options

Okay, this is something most of us waited for. Google Chrome now can be themed, no more boring blue and white colors. We have a brand new Chrome theme gallery here.

Sounds like fun right ? Head over here and download the latest beta version of Google Chrome.

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