Tag: STABLE

Last month's beta version of Chrome has become the new stable build, bringing a large JavaScript performance improvement to hundreds of millions of Chrome users. While it's a bit meaningless at this stage, this means the stable channel is now version 10, which first appeared at the end of 2010. The main addition to this version is Crankshaft, a new version of the V8 JavaScript engine that ...

Google has just announced a new stable version of Chrome. There's nothing majorly exciting here -- it's your run-of-the-mill bug fix fest, along with a few other improvements: AppleScript support for Mac OS X UI automation (How I wish Firefox had some sort of support for AutoHotkey on Windows!) Capability to upload complete directories Introduction of the HTML5 File API It's fairly ...

It's Chrome's second birthday today, and in addition to posting some fancy-schmancy images to celebrate Google Chrome's stable channel has been bumped to version 6. For those of you still keeping tabs on version changes, it's only been four months since Chrome 5 went stable. The update means that all Chrome users can now take advantage of extension and autofill sync -- both important parts of ...

Google Chrome has seen a flurry of development activity since its intial release. Chrome 4 went stable on January 25th of this year, and now it's time for another major version bump. Today, Google has announced that the stable channel has been bumped to v 5.0.375.55. So what changes does that bring to the masses? For starters, it means Linux and Mac users who have been waiting for a stable ...

Opera's latest mobile browsers are all grown up and ready to leave beta! Opera Mini 5 is good to go on your BlackBerry or other Java-ready phone, and Opera Mobile 10 is out for Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. Opera Mini for Android and WinMo are still in beta, and there's no sign of that rumored Opera Mini for iPhone yet. However, these latest stable versions of Opera's pocket-sized browser ...

Google continues to push Chrome ahead at a rapid pace, and today they've announced the arrival of two very important features in Chrome's stable Windows version. With today's update, users of all Chrome channels now have access to bookmark sync and extensions. Bookmark sync debuted in the dev channel back in August of 2009 and extension support began taking shape all the way back in March. ...