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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Last week, we
previewed
several upcoming features that will be available to users on Chrome and Chrome OS. Today we’re excited to introduce a few of these new security, speed, and open web platform features into Chrome’s
beta channel
.
As one of the engineers working on Chrome’s
sandbox
, I’m happy to announce that we’re bringing Chrome’s existing sandboxing technology for web pages to the
Flash Player
plug-in
in Chrome for Windows. The sandbox adds an
additional layer of protection
to further guard against
malicious pages
that try to hijack your computer or steal private information from your hard drive. Based on this groundwork in the beta, we’ll be bringing the sandboxed Flash Player to Chrome for Mac and Linux in future releases as well. For an explanation of how sandboxing technology makes Chrome safer, check out this animated video:
With the latest beta, you can turn on Chrome Instant (à la
Google Instant
), which lets you view web pages and search results faster than ever. With
Instant enabled
, web pages that you frequently visit will begin loading as soon as you start typing a URL in the
omnibox
, faster than you can say ‘Jack Robinson!’ (or in this case, faster than you can hit Enter). In addition, if supported by your default search engine, search results appear instantly as you type queries in the omnibox, and in-line predictions will also appear to help guide your search. Give it a whirl by enabling it on the Basics tab of Chrome’s options and see how you like it!
Finally, this beta will include WebGL, a new web technology for bringing hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser. For more on WebGL in Chrome, check out the
Chromium blog
. If you’d like to learn more about 3D in the browser and what hardware-accelerated graphics, read on in our
online guidebook to browsers and the web
.
We hope you’ll enjoy this safer, faster, and more powerful version of the Chrome beta!
Posted by Carlos Pizano, Software Engineer
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