Google Chrome 2.0 Pre-Beta Released

Google has been hard at work on Google Chrome over the holidays this year. Some of the new features of the new release include, Form Autocomplete where Google Chrome remembers what you have typed into fields on web pages. If you type in the same form again, it will show any previous values that match what you've typed so far. You can disable Form autocomplete on the Minor Tweaks tab of the Options dialog. There is now a Full-page zoom, spell-checking improvements, Autoscroll (Finally) by using middle click (usually mouse wheel click), Import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks, and the V8 Javascript engine gets an upgrade.

They have also revamped the SafeBrowsing feature stating that its now faster, more reliable and uses less disk IO. You can Use different browser profiles. You can start a new browser window that uses a different profile (different bookmarks, history, cookies, etc.). Use [Wrench menu] > New window in profile. When you create a new profile, you can name it and add a shortcut to your Desktop. The network code of Chrome got a bit of an update as well. Google Chrome now has its own implementation of the HTTP network protocol (we were using the WinHTTP library on Windows, but need common code for Mac and Linux). They fixed a few bugs in HTTP authentication and made Google Chrome more compatible with servers that reply with invalid HTTP responses.

To get the new version, you will first need to download Chrome from google.com/chrome. Then head over to the developer preview channel and subscribe. Next, the new version will download directly to your browser and install.