These includes the colorful theme choices, home page, content settings, and page zoom.Īlso new in today's release is the ability to specify that Chrome Extensions run in incognito mode-protecting your browsing activities from prying eyes. Syncing bookmarks between browsers has been available in the Windows version of Chrome since version 4, but version 5 adds the ability to also sync browser preferences.

The version also includes Chrome's newest features: extensions and syncing.

Google's Mac Blog claims that the browser has a native Mac app feel and would benefit from the same speed boost just announced for the Windows version. Google first announced beta versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux in January 2009. Look for independent test of those claims on this site in the near future. Google claims an improvement in JavaScript performance of between 30 and 35 percent for the new version. On Tuesday, Google announced on the Google Chrome blog (Opens in a new window) that a new, faster version of its Chrome browser for Windows would be released, and that (Opens in a new window) stable versions for Mac OS X (Opens in a new window) and Linux (Opens in a new window) would finally be available.

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