Google Chrome 17 Beta Predicts Which Pages to Load, Scans Downloads for Threats

[win7holic]

Google Chrome 17 has been graduated to the beta channel. As usual, don't expect any huge changes, but the latest Chrome beta comes with a couple of new features.

One addition should make a difference in the perceived loading speed of new pages. The second enhancement should make browsing the web more secure as Chrome now warns about a larger number of treats and potentially malicious or infected websites.

"One of the things people like best about Chrome is that it loads web pages quickly. To get you where you want to go even faster, Chrome will now start loading some web pages in the background, even before you’ve finished typing the URL in the omnibox," Dominic Hamon, software engineer and speed demon at Google, wrote.

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[win7holic]

Good step from chrome

 

[muhammadariif]

But people still stay with IE and now Microsoft continue to build IE 10 my main browser is chrome

 

[Hungry Man]

Anyone want to run a comparison of IE9 smartscreen and Chrome? NSS labs is way out of date.