Google Releases Chrome 12 Stable for Linux

Internet Browser  News from Google Chrome.

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last evening (June 7th) the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 12 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms. 

google chrome

The new Google Chrome 12 web browser includes various interesting new features, such as the highly anticipated hardware accelerated 3D CSS support and a brand-new Safe Browsing mode.

"In addition, we would like to thank David Levin of the Chromium development community, miaubiz, Christian Holler and Martin Barbella for working with us in the development cycle and preventing bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Various rewards were issued." - was stated in the official blog announcement.

Highlights of Google Chrome 12.0.742.91:

· Hardware accelerated 3D CSS;
· New Safe Browsing mode to protect users against downloading viruses;
· Flash cookies can now be deleted from inside Chrome;
· Apps can be launched by name from the Omnibox;
· Sync was integrated into the new settings pages;
· Support for screen reader was improved;
· Google Gears were removed.
As usual, there are also numerous bugs fixed in the new Google Chrome 12 web browser, which can be viewed on the official blog announcement, here.

Google Chrome 12.0.742.91 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures with binary packages for the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system and various other RPM-based distributions.

Google Chrome is a revolutionary web browser that makes surfing the Internet more efficient and ergonomic by placing modules on each new opened tab.

Instead of showing a blank page, Google Chrome offers you eight thumbnails, displaying the most visited websites, a history search bar and even the last ten closed tabs.

Google Chrome is extremely fast, from the moment you open it until it is closed. It’s available for the Ubuntu platform!
Download Google Chrome 12.0.742.91 right now.

Also, don't forget to check out our Google Chrome Extensions category, for the latest add-ons!