Google Chrome 28.0.1500.71 Beta Now Available for Download

Google has released Chrome 28.0.1500.71 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Chrome Frame; 28.0.1500.89 for Linux. This build most likely brings some improvements and bug fixes.

Note: Google Chrome Stable for Linux has updated to version 28.0.1500.71

What's new in Chrome 28 Beta?
Chrome 28 Beta contains a number of new improvements and updates, including:

Faster page loads
Starting in Chrome 28 Beta, your apps get a free speed boost from Blink’s new threaded HTML parser. It has two under-the-hood performance benefits:
  1. Reduced jankiness by moving work off the main JavaScript thread
  2. Improved page loading speed through pipelining.

Compared to the normal HTML parser, it loads DOM content about 10% faster and reduces the maximum stop time due to parsing by 40%.

Deprecated features
The prefixed version of the Content Security Policy HTTP header is now deprecated, so please use Content-Security-Policy instead of X-WebKit-CSP. The prefixed version will still work for now, but future releases may not support it.

Other developer features in this release
  • You can now use CSS @supports conditional blocks to test whether Chromium supports certain property:value pairs.
  • The :unresolved CSS pseudoclass lets you style a Custom Element that hasn’t been registered in the browser yet. Custom Elements are part of Web Components.
  • As part of V8's continuing quest to make all JavaScript as fast as possible, recent optimizations have made the asm.js benchmarks more than twice as fast as prior versions of Chrome.
  • Chrome Apps and Extensions developers can now use rich notifications to proactively engage with users.

See the following Google website for more details: Chrome 28 Beta: A more immersive web, everywhere

Download Google Chrome Beta
Google Chrome Beta is available here: www.google.com/chrome beta


What's new in Google Chrome 28.0.1500.70 Beta?
Full details about changes that are in this version of Chrome 28 are available in the svn revision log.

For more information about features coming to Chrome, check out the Chrome Blog.

Reference:
Google Chrome Beta Channel Update

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