Happy third birthday, Chrome!

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Google

Chrome

completes three years today. Here's a quick fly-by through

the some of the highlights of the past 12 months on the Chrome

platform:







Faster

and faster

• color="#333333">We kick off the color="#333333"> Year
  
  of the Rabbit  color="#333333">with a new compilation infrastructure
  
  for the V8 JavaScript engine, codenamed “Crankshaft color="#333333">,” which improves JavaScript
  
  performance by up to 66 percent.

• color="#333333">Chrome's color="#333333"> new
  
  settings interface  color="#333333">helps you find the right settings
  
  quickly with an integrated search box. It also provides direct links to
  
  each settings page, which can be copied and pasted for easy
  
  troubleshooting.

• color="#333333">The size="3"> omnibox color="#333333">  color="#333333">is improved to better suggest partial
  
  matches for webpage titles and URLs.

• color="#333333">You can optionally enable color="#333333"> Chrome

  Instant, which shows
  
  relevant content in the browser window as you type, before you press
  
  Enter.

• color="#333333">Chrome's built-in color="#333333"> prerendering

  technology  color="#333333">enables sites to build even faster
  
  experiences for their users-such as size="3"> Instant Pages color="#333333">  color="#333333">in Google search, which in some cases
  
  makes search results appear to size="3"> load almost instantly color="#333333">.

Simpler

and

more accessible

• color="#333333">Chrome supports many popular screen
  
  readers such as  size="3">JAWS, color="#333333"> NVDA color="#333333">  color="#333333">and size="3"> VoiceOver color="#333333">to help visually impaired people better
  
  experience the web.

• color="#333333">Print Preview, a color="#333333"> popular

  feature request, uses
  
  Chrome's built-in  size="3">PDF viewer  color="#333333">to display the preview, and enables you
  
  to save any webpage as a convenient PDF file using the “ size="3">Print to PDF”
  
  option.

• color="#333333">Chrome's icon takes on a color="#333333"> simpler

  look  color="#333333">to embody the Chrome spirit, since
  
  Chrome is all about making your web experience quicker, lighter and
  
  easier for all.

An

even

more secure platform

• color="#333333">Our integrated and color="#333333"> sandboxed

  PDF viewer  color="#333333">enables you to view PDF files on the
  
  web without installing additional software. Furthermore, we built an
  
  additional layer of security around the PDF viewer called a “ size="3">sandbox” to help
  
  protect you from security attacks that are targeted at PDF files.

• color="#333333">Adobe Flash Player is color="#333333"> sandboxed

  on Windows, further
  
  protecting you from security attacks and malware targeted at Flash
  
  content on the web.

• color="#333333">Chrome warns you before downloading color="#333333"> some
  
  types of malicious files  color="#333333">with enhanced size="3">Safe Browsing  color="#333333">technology. In order to help  size="3">protect privacy,
  
  malicious content is detected without Chrome or Google ever having to
  
  know about the URLs that you visit or the files you download.

• color="#333333">To provide greater transparency and
  
  control over the data that websites store on your computers, Chrome
  
  lets you delete  size="3">Local Shared Objects size="3"> created

  by Adobe Flash Player using the browser's color="#333333"> built-in

  setting dialogs.

Wowzah,

the

modern web!

• color="#333333">The size="3"> Chrome Web Store color="#333333">  color="#333333">is an open marketplace where you can
  
  search for and discover web applications, both free and paid, along
  
  with ratings and reviews. Developers can add color="#333333"> in-app

  payments  color="#333333">to their apps for a flat 5 percent
  
  transaction fee.

• color="#333333">Chrome supports color="#333333"> WebGL color="#333333">, which brings color="#333333"> hardware-accelerated

  3D graphics  color="#333333">to the browser with no additional
  
  software needed. For a taste of what WebGL can do, check out “ size="3">3 Dreams of Black,”
  
  a 3D music experience for the web browser. color="#333333"> 

• color="#333333">Chrome's support for the color="#333333"> HTML
  
  speech input API  color="#333333">enables developers to give web apps the
  
  ability to transcribe your voice into text. Try it out on
  
  www.google.com by clicking on the microphone icon in the search box.

• color="#333333">Hardware-accelerated color="#333333"> 3D
  
  CSS  color="#333333">enables snazzier experiences in color="#333333"> webpages color="#333333">  color="#333333">and apps which use 3D effects.

Delivering

a

new, simpler model for computing

• color="#333333">Chrome is color="#333333"> enterprise

  ready, with an MSI
  
  installer and support for managed group policies. Many organizations
  
  such as Vanguard and Procter & Gamble have successfully deployed
  
  Chrome to thousands of users in an enterprise setting.

• color="#333333">As of this past July, Chromebooks are
  
  now  size="3">available for purchase size="3"> in
  
  eight countries-the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the
  
  Netherlands and South Korea. And just like Chrome, the Chromebook color="#333333"> always

  keeps getting better. When
  
  you turn your Chromebook on, it updates itself automatically: you get
  
  the latest and greatest version of the operating system without having
  
  to think about it. 

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