Google unveils Chrome 4 beta
The beta for the lastest Chrome browser includes bookmark synching and is 30 per cent faster than the last version.
Google has added bookmark syncing to Chrome in its latest beta.
The beta for Chrome 4 will let you see the same bookmarks in every instance of the browser that you use, so long as you've synchronised them.
"You can keep your Google Chrome bookmarks synchronised and up-to-date across the multiple computers you use, without needing to manually recreate your bookmarks every time you use a different computer," said software engineers Idan Avraham and Anton Muhin in a post on the Google blog.
Any changes will be replicated across any computer that you've activated bookmark sync on.
The pair explained: "For those of you who are curious, this bit of magic is made possible by the same XMPP-based servers that power Google Talk."
As usual, the new version of Chrome is also speedier than the last. Google is claiming the Chrome 4 beta is 30 per cent faster than the current release, and 400 per cent faster than the very first version of Chrome.
It may seem just yesterday that Chrome 3 was released, and that's because it was - or six weeks ago, at least. Google inexplicably gives a fresh version number to every new release of Chrome, even it it's just a tiny upgrade.
For more on bookmark sync, check out the Google video below:
Read on to find out what's next for Google Chrome.
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