Browsers grow up so fast, don’t they? Just a short while ago, Google Chrome was nothing more than an idea, and now it’s a spunky two-year-old browser with a 7.52 percent share of the market, trailing only Internet Explorer (60.40 percent) and Firefox (22.93 percent). To celebrate the occasion, Google has gone and released a new version of its open source browser, Chrome 6.
“Today, we’re releasing a new stable version of Chrome that is even faster and more streamlined,” Google wrote in a blog post. “Chrome is now three times faster than it was two years ago on JavaScript performance. We’ve also been working on simplifying the ‘chrome’ of Chrome. As you can see, we took the already minimalist user interface and stripped it down a bit more to make it easier to use.”
Chrome’s two menus are now combined into one, and Google slightly “adjusted the color scheme of the browser to be easier on the eyes.” Not yet part of the package is hardware acceleration, though Google says it’s in the pipeline.
You can get the update by clicking on the wrench icon and selecting ‘About Google Chrome,’ or grab the download from here.
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