A new stable release of the Google Chrome web browser, version 4.0, is now available for Download,The latest upgrade is available for the Windows platform and brings with it interesting stable features such as extensions, bookmark sync and more.
According to Baum, “all Google Chrome users on PCs can access over 1,500 new features, through our new extension system.” Extensions, much like programs in Firefox, allow users to run little programs which perform various tasks.
- Extensions
- Bookmark sync
- Enhanced developer tools
- HTML5: Notifications, Web Database, Local Storage, WebSockets, Ruby support v8 performance improvements
- Skia performance improvements
- Full ACID3 pass, due to re-enabled remote font support (with added defense against bugs in operating system font libraries)
- HTTP byte range support
- New security feature: “Strict Transport Security” support
- Experimental new anti-reflected-XSS feature called “XSS Auditor”
