Sam Diaz submits:
A new beta version of the Google Chrome browser released today is boasting some pretty impressive speed boosts, with improvements of 30 percent and 35 percent on the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over the previous version. In a post on the Google Chrome blog, the company said Chrome’s performance has improved by as much as 213 percent and 305 percent on the two benchmarks since the browser’s first beta.
But it’s not just the speed and performance that the company is bragging about. The new betas - which are available for download for PC, Mac and Linux - includes new feature, such as browser setting synchronization that allows users to “sign-in” and keep their themes, homepage and startup preferences in sync with other computers.
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