Features and support
Chrome 14's features are accessible from the Preferences menu via the wrench icon on the right side of the navigation bar. Version 14 offers a complete range of modern browsing conveniences. The basics are well-represented, including tabbed browsing, new window creation, and a private browsing mode that Google calls Incognito, which disables cookie tracking, history recording, extension support, and other browsing breadcrumbs.
Chrome is based on WebKit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google's Android mobile platform, and several other desktop and mobile Web-browsing tools. However, Chrome runs on a different JavaScript engine than its WebKit cousins, and there are other changes as well.
Along with hardware-accelerated 3D CSS in Chrome 12, we also got some interesting security improvements. You can now delete Flash cookies from inside Chrome, which makes sense given that Chrome comes with Flash built in, and there's a new Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files. Chrome's Web app support, which debuted in December 2010, now includes the ability to launch Web apps from the location bar. This gives keyboard jockeys a bit more power to avoid mousing around, more readily apparent in Chrome OS but nevertheless good to have in the regular old Chrome browser.
Mac users now get a warning window when using Command-Q to close the browser. And finally, Google Gears support was removed in Chrome 12 in preparation for a new offline option for Google Apps. How this will work, and when it will be implemented, remains to be seen.
Print preview, formerly a small but glaring hole in Chrome's feature list, now has been fixed. Chrome stable for Mac still doesn't have the feature, which is powered by the PDF reader that comes built into Chrome.
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Chrome 14's features are accessible from the Preferences menu via the wrench icon on the right side of the navigation bar. Version 14 offers a complete range of modern browsing conveniences. The basics are well-represented, including tabbed browsing, new window creation, and a private browsing mode that Google calls Incognito, which disables cookie tracking, history recording, extension support, and other browsing breadcrumbs.
Chrome is based on WebKit, the same open-source engine that powers Apple Safari, Google's Android mobile platform, and several other desktop and mobile Web-browsing tools. However, Chrome runs on a different JavaScript engine than its WebKit cousins, and there are other changes as well.
Along with hardware-accelerated 3D CSS in Chrome 12, we also got some interesting security improvements. You can now delete Flash cookies from inside Chrome, which makes sense given that Chrome comes with Flash built in, and there's a new Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files. Chrome's Web app support, which debuted in December 2010, now includes the ability to launch Web apps from the location bar. This gives keyboard jockeys a bit more power to avoid mousing around, more readily apparent in Chrome OS but nevertheless good to have in the regular old Chrome browser.
Mac users now get a warning window when using Command-Q to close the browser. And finally, Google Gears support was removed in Chrome 12 in preparation for a new offline option for Google Apps. How this will work, and when it will be implemented, remains to be seen.
Print preview, formerly a small but glaring hole in Chrome's feature list, now has been fixed. Chrome stable for Mac still doesn't have the feature, which is powered by the PDF reader that comes built into Chrome.
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