Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

Here are some of its features:

Search from the address bar
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Private browsing
Open an incognito window when you don't want to save your browsing history.

Limitations:

This is an in-progress build of Google Chrome on Linux. The following significant chunks of functionality are known to be missing:

· Plugins, including Flash (so no YouTube, Hulu, etc.)
· Printing
· Complex text
· Complex tab dragging
· Gears support

· Other parts of the browser are notably incomplete, poorly tuned and broken. User beware!

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· CSS rounded corners are now antialiased on Windows and Linux. (They were already on Mac.)
· Minor visual polish (e.g. horizontal scrollbars show the proper grippy, omnibox highlighting fix).
· [r28834] Create application shortcuts now works on Fedora 11. (Issue: 22966)
· [r28869] Browser actions (extension buttons in toolbar) partly implemented. (Issue: 23882)
· [r29102] Omnibox auto-complete popup stacks properly below SCIM IME candidate window. (Issue: 19082)
· [r29261] Ctrl+F etc. no longer type other letters into edit boxes in non-English keyboard setups. (Issues: 10846, 2215, 21471)

Chrome Frame:

· Fixes persistent IE 8 crashes. (Issue: 22768)
· Fixed crashes when navigating with Web Inspector open. (Issue: 22993)
· Fixes spurious errors when re-installing Chrome Frame. (Issue: 23444)
· Fixes a crash in comctl32.dll, triggered by Google Wave. (Issue: 24115)
· Fixes empty referrer issue for initial link navigations. (Issue: 22994)
· Preview support for accessibility via MSAA, including ARIA role and state information. (Issues 23669, others)
· Improved keyboard and accelerator handling.
· IE text-size menu items now change text size in Chrome Frame.
· Navigating to a site marked as restricted is now disabled in Chrome Frame. Chrome frame now updates the zone UI on the task bar.
· Chrome Frame will now work for all other users on the machine, not just the user who installs it. (Issue: 23989)
· Fixes for SSL certificate error issue.
· Disables sending 'chromeframe' in the User-Agent if the Chrome Frame addon is disabled. (Issue: 22760)
· Disables the 'Chrome has crashed - Restart?' message box.
· Limited support for JavaScript history object for back/forward from content.

Extensions:

· [r29068] *Breaking Change* Finalize browser actions API (Issue: 23879)
· [r29284] *Breaking Change* Only one browser action or one page actions is now allowed per-extension. We are experimenting with the idea of a direct correspondence between extensions and visible UI features. We think this may improve managability. (Issue: 24473)
· [r29335] Update page actions API to improve usability. Old API still supported. (Issue: 24635)
· [r29495] Browser actions and page actions: Add chrome.browserAction.setIcon({path:...}). No longer need to prespecify images in manifest. (Issue: 22575)
· [r29297] Add an options_page to the manifest. (Issue: 23801)
· [r29365] You can now use (slightly) bigger icons in browser actions and page actions. Up to 19px square are now allowed (up from 16px). (Issue: 24881)
· [r29046] Fix extension canceling. (Issue: 23405)
· [r29143] Browser action button disappears when loading a new extension. (Issue: 23593)

Known issues:

· Linux: Some fonts may look blurry or extra bold. (Issue: 25365)