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Chrome 3.0 Now Available, Offers Native Support for Themes

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Google on Tuesday put the final coat of polish its Chrome 3.0 browser and has begun offering up the stable build to the general public. The release comes just two weeks after Chrome celebrated its first birthday and is the result of 51 developer, 21 beta, and 15 stable updates, along with 3,505 bug fixes, Google says.

As with every new major browser release, JavaScript performance takes center stage. According to Google, Chrome 3.0 is 150 percent faster in JavaScript chores than the company's very first beta, and more than 25 percent snappier since the most recent stable release.

In Chrome 3.0, you can now rearrange thumbnails of recently visited sites when you first fire up the browser, as well as pin thumbnails to a specific spot so they don't disappear.

Other additions include an improved Omnibox with an optimized presentation of the drop-down menu, additional HTML5 capabilities, such as the <video> tag, and support for Themes.

If your browser hasn't automatically updated yet, you can manually snag the latest stable build here.

Image Credit: Google

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avatarWOW THEMES?!?! Yawn. 

WOW THEMES?!?!

Yawn.  Firefox has been doing this for years.

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avatarSo?  Firefox has been

So?  Firefox has been around for years.  It takes a little while to get all the features into a new application.  For myself, I think they are moving at a pretty decent pace.

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avatarAlready having problems with

Already having problems with this update.  It wont allow downloads started in incognito mode to show up in the downloads tab.  So if you start more than 5 downloads you can't view their progress and you can't view any download speed on any of the downloads.  I wish my Chrome hadn't auto-updated.

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