Google Chrome Gets Ready For Mac, Linux
Google has launched a pre-beta version 2.0 which is chromium in the Web browser more in line with its support for Mac OS X and Linux.
Google on Thursday released the pre-beta, officially called 2.0.156.1, its chain of development, where developers have the opportunity to watch, possibly, new features.
A change in the last stop in the final version is a modification of WinHTTP HTTP protocol network library of Windows. The movement has a common code to be part of Mac and Linux versions of Chrome. Google has not said when the new versions have been released, but said that it is a priority.
Mac and Linux is the most popular according to the update of chromium. The call for support for other operating systems besides Windows began immediately after the first browser Google beta last September. Google has released the final version 1.0 chromium December.
Other features of the latest version is a new WebKit, the open source used to make Web pages. The new version fixes bugs and allows features such as full page zoom and auto-scroll, and adds features Cascading Style Sheets.
Google has also added automatically to chromium remember what was written in the fields of Web pages. If a person in the same way the previous post, seems to help save time.
Another new feature is the ability to launch a new browser window using a different profile with different bookmarks, history and cookies. New profiles can be named and added that a shortcut on the desktop.
At the end of 2008, the chromium 1% of the browser market, according to Net Applications. Microsoft Internet Explorer accounted for 78%, Mozilla Firefox, 21%, and Apple’s Safari, nearly 8%.
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