Google has pushed out a new version of Chrome 5 to beta testers which is between 30% and 35% faster than previous beta releases in the V8 and SunSpider benchmark tests.
Early results suggest that Google Chrome 5 beta is now faster than Opera 10.5x, taking back the fastest browser crown.
Other new features in Google Chrome 5.0.375.29 include HTML5 Features; Geolocation, App Cache, web sockets, file drag-and-drop along with Integrated Flash Player Plugin and Preferences synchronisation.
Along with the release, the Chrome team have created a video to show you just how fast the browser is, in a very creative and entertaining way.
Google Chrome 5 beta can be downloaded for Windows, Mac and Linux.
A video of the showing the making of the Google Chrome Speed Test video can be seen after the break.
Saurabh wrote on May 7, 2010 at 4:53 am
Google Chrome 5 Beta is really the fastest Browser around. I have listed some cool features and tests to show comparative speeds of various browsers on my Blog as well- Techchai.com
Check it out.