Google announced to release Chrome version 1.0 today saying "to take off the "beta" label" from its browser -- a big jump from the latest version 0.4.x released just a week ago. Like Mozilla's Firefox, Chrome is an open source browser but it makes use of Apple's WebKit HTML-rendering engine instead of Gecko renderer of Mozilla. Google's Chrome also incorporates a brand new JavaScript virtual machine named V8 which, according to Google's benchmarks, outperforms all other JavaScript engines in contemporary browsers. In ...

In the next few days current users of Google's Chrome will automatically receive another beta update, version 0.4.154.25, but new users can immediately download the new release from Chrome official site now. Chrome's latest beta will, apart from bug fixes, introduce new features like better bookmark manager and enhanced privacy control. The new book manager will allow user searching bookmarks, creating folders and drag-n-dropping bookmarks to new locations, according to Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager. Other important updates focus on Web privacy ...