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May 11, 2010

New features in Google Chrome 5 beta

The latest beta version of Google Chrome includes several new features which certainly have me anticipating the release of the stable version. More synchronization, disabling annoying translation requests and the ability to reorder extension buttons are among the highlights. Read on to find out more about what's new and improved.


The most interesting

Google Chrome can synchronize themes and preferences

As I have mentioned before, the ability to synchronize all elements of a web browser across multiple computers that I use frequently seems of vital importance to me. I have never really used themes, but having preferences synched will definitely be a nice feature.

Manual translation

I work at the same time on webpages in at least 5 different languages, and while I realize that this may not be the case for everyone, I will definitely not miss the translation bar popping up EVERY TIME I am working on a design for a site that is not in English. And no, for some reason it never remember the setting to 'Never translate this domain/page'.

Reorder extension buttons

This is just something that slightly bothers me every time I install a new extension. I find myself clicking on the extension's icon, and trying to drag it to a more convenient location. Until I remember, oops, nope, can't do that yet.


Other new improvements include a new bookmark manager, the ability to delete individual items from the history, Flash plugin integration and ability to manually disable plugins, remembering zoom settings, extensions in incognito mode and native geolocation. You can read more about this at Google Operating System.
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