Google Chrome beta 2.0.172.37

Google Chrome beta 2.0.172.37 is created as an application for making the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything--type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages. Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.

Major Features:

1. Browse the Web or do a search
   
   • With Google Chrome, you can get anywhere on the Web from the address bar at the top of the window. To browse websites or do a search, start typing in the address bar. Suggestions from your browsing history, popular sites, and popular searches will appear.
2. Save or bookmark your favorite webpages
   
   • To save the webpage you're on, click the star icon on the address bar. In the bookmarks bubble that pops up, select the folder where you'd like to file the bookmark.
     
3. Open the Web in tabs
   
   • Flexible tabs help you manage the way you browse your websites. To open a new tab, click the + icon next to your last tab (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T).
4. Get to your most visited websites and searches
   
   • The New Tab page lets you get to your most visited websites, recently bookmarked webpages, top search engines, and recently closed tabs with a few clicks. Simply open a new tab. The Web resources you rely on the most appear automatically.
5. Download files in peace
   
   • When you click a link to start a download, monitor the download progress at the bottom of the Google Chrome window. When your download is complete, click the file button to open it, or the arrow beside the button to manage the file. To see all your downloads, click Show all downloads. You can also view your downloads by clicking the wrench menu and selecting Downloads (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+J).
6. Create shortcuts for your Web application
   • You can run many websites, such as email services, like actual programs on your computer's desktop by creating application shortcuts. To make one for the website you're on, click the page menu page menu and select Create application shortcuts. Then select where you want shortcuts to be placed on your computer. When you double-click a shortcut icon, the website opens in a streamlined window.
     
7. Browse the Web without saving information
   • For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays, you can browse the Web without leaving behind search history or cookies. Click the wrench menu tools menu and select New incognito window. You can still access your saved bookmarks and settings, and you can also continue to browse normally in a separate window.
     
8. Manage your browsing history
   • Click the wrench menu, and select History to search and browse your previously viewed websites (or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H). To remove the links from any day, click Delete history for this day on the right side.
9. Close misbehaving tabs: You can use Google Chrome's Task Manager to close a website that is misbehaving without completely shutting down the browser. Click the page menu, select Developer, then Task Manager (or use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Esc). Sselect the tab you want to stop and click End process.

Enhancements:

• Includes security and bug-fixes.
• Include features that introduce instability to the browser. Use with caution.
• Fix: Solving captcha images broken at orkut.com. (Issue 15569)
  
• Make forward/backward navigation work even when redirection is involved. (Issue 9663, issue 10531)
  
• Fix: Daylight savings time not recognized for some CET locales. (Issue 12579)
  
• Fix a browser crash on closing a URL request. (Issue 8942)
  
• Update the V8 Javascript engine to version 1.1.10.14 to fix issues with regular expressions.
  
• Update Gears to the latest release, 0.5.25.0.