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Google Chrome 2.0 review
By Preston Gralla | PC World | Published: 09:53, 26 May 2009
It's baffling that a company that keeps fully featured software such as Gmail in beta for years has jumped to Google Chrome 2.0 for a browser with so little to offer.
After the upgrade, you won't notice a change in Google Chrome 2.0 at all - it looks just like the previous version, and largely behaves like it as well. There are a few little tweaks, though, such as a full screen mode available via the F11 key.
There's also a form filler for filling in web forms, something other browsers have had since the Dark Ages. You can also remove thumbnails from the "New Tab" pages that launch whenever you open a new tab. And you can zoom better.
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The only substantial change is speed. Google claims that the new Google Chrome 2.0 is 30 percent faster than the previous version, and we can believe it. It loads pages lightning fast.
But there's more to browsing the web than fast-loading pages. That's where Google Chrome 2.0 is still far inferior to Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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