Now available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows

May 29, 2015 00:05 GMT  ·  By

On May 27, Penny MacNeil from the Google Chrome development team was happy to announce the promotion of the Google Chrome 44 web browser from the Dev channel to the Beta one for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Besides numerous under-the-hood performance and stability improvements, as well as the usual bug fixes, Google Chrome 44.0.2403.18 Beta promises to offer a smoother video playback experience to users, for all video content.

The improved video rendering feature is possible thanks to a new cadence-based rendering algorithm implemented in Chrome, and it's designed specifically for low-end machines that weren't capable of rendering 4K video content.

"The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 44 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 44.0.2403.18 contains many improvements including," says Penny MacNeil.

You can download Google Chrome 44.0.2403.18 Beta for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from Softpedia, but please keep in mind that this is a pre-release version. In similar news, Google populated the Dev channels with Chrome 45.0.2414.0.