Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta Released

Posted January 9, 2009 – 6:34 am in: Google Chrome, News

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Google has released 2.0 pre-BETA of Google Chrome browser within a month after releasing 1.0 final. It’s very clear that Google has been working very hard to make the browser future rich as they have been adding new features in every major release.

The latest version too has got many news features like profiles, autoscroll and form autocomplete which make the browser more user friendly. The latest version gets updates to Webkit and the V8 JavaScript engine and also new code for the HTTP network protocol.

What’s new?

* Form autocomplete

* Full-page zoom

* Autoscroll

* Profiles

* Support for Greasemonkey scripts

According to the Google blog, there are many small changes and improvements in bookmark manager, spell-check and in other departments of Chrome. You can get the more detailed information about the latest build and features at the Google blog, and the latest version of the browser can be downloaded by following the below steps.

1. If you don’t have Google Chrome, install it from google.com/chrome

2. Subscribe to the developer preview channel. This is required even if you’ve previously subscribed to the channel.

3. Wait until the new version is downloaded (you may force the update by opening the "About Google Chrome" dialog).

However note that if you don’t like the new version, you can always downgrade to the most recent stable version by reinstalling Chrome.