Meanwhile, the work Google has put into speed and stability improvements has definitely paid off. For a program specifically designed to keep users in Google’s ecosystem more often, that’s a laudably courteous feature. I will give Chrome one sincere compliment, though: It’s easy to switch your default search engine from Google to Bing, Yahoo, or the engine of your choice. I wish that as much attention was paid to human touches as to the speed and security of the underlying code. While you can now pin tabs to your browser window, Firefox-style, there’s still no easy way to open all bookmarks in a given Bookmarks Bar folder without right-clicking to summon a contextual menu.
The browser still lacks visual polish, and has made only minimal efforts to match Safari, Firefox, or Opera’s attempts to evolve around how people use their browsers. More dismayingly, Chrome’s interface remains fundamentally unchanged from last year. It may not be pretty, but Chrome 29 sure is fast. However, none of the MathML demo pages I tried would display their samples correctly in Chrome.
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The release notes mention improved guesses in the “omnibox”-the combined URL and search bar-for what you might be typing, plus new support for MathML, a markup language for easily displaying complex mathematical equations. The reset button is buried at the very bottom of Chrome’s initially hidden advanced options, and I wasn’t overwhelmed by its effectiveness. It also leaves your browser history intact, oddly. It preserves your bookmarks, happily, and disables but does not delete your extensions. Since version 21, Chrome has also gained occasional speed boosts and other small new touches, including the ability to quickly display what permissions each of your installed extensions has.Ī reset button, new to the latest version, claims to let you restore your browser to its original settings, including resetting your homepage, themes, new tab pages, and search engine of choice. The pace at which Google turns out new Chrome iterations has slowed from “brain-melting” to just “really fast.” While Chrome leapt from version 8 to version 21 between 20, it’s “only” advanced to version 29 since then.Ĭhrome 29’s new reset button is located at the bottom of the Advanced Settings.Ī review of Chrome’s release notes reveals numerous security patches and bug fixes. If you were worried that Chrome’s interface might have changed radically in the last year, well, fear not. But the things that have changed about Chrome since this time last year don’t seem quite as significant as those that have remained stubbornly the same.
The latest version is once again a lightning-fast, efficiently functional browser, at or near the top of the pack in every benchmark I ran. The Mac browser market might be better off if Google applied some of the innovation it touts in other areas of its business to its Chrome Web browser.
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