On a suprising move by Google, the Google Chrome Browser beta tag has been removed. This is very unusual by Google because most of its products and services are always labelled as Beta, even when they have been available to public for years. Gmail, for example, is still tagged as a Beta.
Nevertheless, if you are using Google Chrome, head off to the official Google Blog page to read more about this news and upgrade yours.
My Google Chrome version was 0.4.154.33 before I made the update. The funny thing was, Google Chrome displayed “Google Chrome is up to date (0.4.154.33)” even though it is not (the latest non-Beta release is meant to be version 1.0.154.36).
So I decided to just re-download and re-install Google Chrome. The update went through fine and my Google Chrome now says “Google Chrome is up to date (1.0.154.36)”.
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Must go check it out. Have downloaded the latest but have not had the time to see exactly what is new. Hopefully there has been a move towards third party add-ons etc.
Unfortunately you’ll be disappointed as there is no move yet towards third party add-ons
Are there any significant improvements besides removing the word beta?
Nothing major that I know of
Heh? They finally end the beta stage? I have downloaded it but don’t feel there is any difference.
Same here
I guess it’s more like security and stability fixes here and there so we won’t probably notice any difference
I’ll be honest, I cant see any reason to use Chrome. I’ve had a little play with it and there are a few cosmetic things that other browsers have (e.g. loading bar on bottom right) and Chrome does not have. I personally like Firefox (especially for the SEO type add ons). I cant see the point of using something just because its new
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Well I love Chrome simply because it’s fast and lighter on resources compared to Firefox. But of course, features-wise, Firefox beats it by far!
Looks great! Honestly though, if you are still using IE, it’s time to make a change. Anything else is better…
lol there are even lots of people still using IE5 and IE6
yeah im about redy to trash IE… especially since hackers are hacking it to pieces and i get those VERY ANNOYING errors that close all my tabs. nothing gets me madder than that…
-jack
You should have trashed IE long ago
Some people (not you) are just being lazy or don’t understand how to install other browsers on their machines. So they stick with whatever browsers they have as a default -> Internet Explorer