Top 5 new features coming to Google Chrome

Have you noticed the continuing battle against the browsers, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome? They each try and be the best. We’ve lately seen new releases of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Firefox have also just announced a new faster schedule of releasing updates and launched a new channel called ‘Aurora' which is used to test new and upcoming features to the browser. Whilst, Microsoft have already released a preview of its next version of Internet Explorer.

So what about Google Chrome? Chrome is the cause of these faster schedules and releases thanks to their six week schedule. The  company have lately made a number of changes to Google Chrome and won’t be long before you see them in stable builds of the browser.

I thought I would tell you what you can expect from Google over the coming months:

1. Touch Tabs

Do you want your web browser to look like your smartphone app screen? Well, with ‘touch tabs’ users will have the chance to select multiple homepages with help of app icons.

2. ‘SPDY’ for speed

I bet your wondering what is ‘SPDY’ (‘speedy’) well it is basically an alternative to HTTP that has been created to transport data across the web rapidly and now fully implemented in the browser according to a Tech report on ConceivablyTech. Google’s lab tests have proven that a page now opens up to 64% faster than before with this new piece of technology, but there’s catch at the moment you will only see SPDY in action on Google’s own websites.

All current builds of Chrome now support SPDY.

3. Better security

Are you a system administrator? If you are it could just start to get exciting for you because thanks to Google you will now be able to block content from being viewed on the Chrome web browser such as plug-ins and images.

4. Tab Scrolling

Google have added new scroll buttons to Chrome’s side tabs. This will help users keep in control of their tabs.

5. Improvements to WebKit

The new WebKit version comes with support for Windows 7 gestures and for Chrome’s Skia backend, reports have said that this will enable PDF rendering when users are in print preview mode.

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