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Announcing its satisfaction in terms of reaching its own goals and standards, Google Inc. has today released its latest update for the Chrome Web browser and accompanied the release by officially removing the streamlined platform’s beta status.
Google Chrome is no longer in beta. Image: Google.
“We’re excited to announce that with today’s fifteenth release we are taking off the “beta” label,” said Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management via an official blog post.
According to Google, ongoing feedback and updates have delivered increased stability and performance by cancelling out common video and audio glitches, boosting initial beta speed through the V8 JavaScript engine, enhancing the bookmark feature with easier importing from other browsers, and also grouping user privacy features into one place for easy access and understanding.
“Google Chrome is a better browser today thanks to the many users who sent their feedback and the many more who enabled automatic crash reports, helping us rapidly diagnose and fix issues,” added Google in its post.
When it comes to Chrome’s security, a sticking point with some when the browser first appeared, Google maintains that it takes security “very seriously” and will continue to seek out better ways to make Chrome “and all browsers” even more secure.
“Google Chrome’s unique sandbox technology creates an additional layer of defense against harmful software,” says the California-based tech company, while adding that the Safe Browsing feature “provides protection against phishing and malware attacks for many browser users.”
While Chrome accounts for less than one percent of the Web browser market and is currently far from a serious rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox, Google is keen to stress that its online platform is continuing to find positive traction with users.
Specifically, Google says that Chrome has reached more than 10 million active Net users around the world in the first 100 days since its release, and has already evolved significantly through its previous 14 updates.
Promising more speed yet to come and also outlining the development of an extensions platform and support for Mac and Linux systems, the latest Chrome update will arrive automatically over the next few days for all existing users.
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