Google continues its trend to push out small updates of its browser which we all know as Google Chrome or simply Chrome. Yet again they have rolled out another update.  This time the stable channel has been updated. The latest upgrade is available for the Windows platform and brings with it interesting stable features such as extensions, bookmark sync and more. (Full feature list after a jump)

chrome4.0

The version 4.0 (4.0.249.78) of Google Chrome has the following features:

  • 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”

If you are already running an existing version of Chrome, open the tools menu, click on the About Google Chrome, it will prompt you to install the latest update available. For new users, head here

For more Chrome stuff, check out the following links:

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