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Thursday, June 16, 2011
What if a waiter handed you your meal, hot and fresh, the instant you ordered it? What if the elevator doors opened onto the eighth floor the instant you pressed the eighth floor button in the lobby? What if a web page appeared in your browser, loaded in its entirety, the instant you clicked on a search result?
Well, you might have to wait for Instant Restaurants and Instant Elevators, but
Instant Pages
is available today in the latest
beta release
of Chrome. Thanks to Chrome’s new
prerendering
technology, some Google.com search results will appear to load almost instantly after you click on them. You can see this feature in action in the following video:
Although Google.com is the most high-profile site to use this new prerendering technology, it can be used by other sites since it’s been designed as a web standard. Web developers interested in learning more can see our post in the
Chromium blog
.
We’ve added a few more features in this release that users have been eagerly awaiting for some time. First, we’ve added some awesome to the
omnibox
by suggesting partial matches for URLs and page titles from your browsing history. For example, say you’ve listened to the song “Zorbing” by Stornoway a few times on YouTube, but you can’t remember the full song title or band name. Now, when you type just part of one of the words, like “orb,” you should get a suggestion due to the partial match: “YouTube.com - Stornoway - ‘Z
orb
ing’ Official Video.”
Second, we’re happy to announce that
issue number 173
in our public bug database, which has collected more than 900 “stars” from users around the world since it was filed in 2008, has been implemented on Windows and Linux (the Mac version is coming soon). That’s right--we’ve finally added Print Preview! Print Preview uses Chrome’s built-in
PDF viewer
to display the page you want to print, and it updates automatically as you adjust your print settings. You can also choose to save any web page as a PDF file, using the “Print to PDF” option that’s automatically included in the printer list. Thanks for being patient with us on this one!
Posted by Chris Bentzel, Software Engineer
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