Google has announced the release of Chrome 8 developer build according to a blog post on its Chrome blog Tuesday, stating categorically on the new features expected on the next version of the open-source browser.
The much expected search innovation, Instant Pages, announced by Google mid June is now live on the latest stable version of Chrome 13, according to the Chrome Blog.
The Chrome Remote Desktop beta is fully cross-platform compliant, according to the release note, and can connect any two computers running any of these operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux and Chromebook) with Chrome browser.
Chrome Frame allowed developers to scale the huddles of building different versions of app to suit the varied user agents, while ensuring better experience even for those still using old versions of the browser.
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Indeed, the browser-side technology are currently on the spotlight with Chrome championing the web app revolution. Albeit, native applications are still exacting great influence in overall productivity landscape, the future is truly web-based application.
The Chrome app launcher for Windows now means that users can tap into the vast pool of web applications instead of the traditional equivalents, including apps for document editing, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and e-book readers.
While Chromebooks have been touted as successful in the enterprise, albeit it lacks app compatibility, as before now, Chromebooks were only able to run applications built for Chrome, but which is lacking applications compared to Android.
The Google Now "cards" show up automatically if you're already using Google Now on Android or iOS, and signed into Chrome with the same Google account.
It follows on an earlier introduction of new version of Chrome Apps that works offline by default and act like native applications on the host operating system.
Google have included support for VP8 video codec and Vorbis audio codec - loyalty-free as part of the Chrome dev released Thursday for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The TOR Project provides free, distributed worldwide proxies for anonymous browsing and private downloading. TOR comes with a built-in Firefox add-on, but Chrome users can get a handy on/off button for TOR with this setup, explained by commenter brssnkl.