With the latest Chrome Beta release, Google has announced some great improvements in both, usability and performance areas.
You can now rearrange web sites on New Tab page using drag and drop action, pin the ones you like or even hide specific site elements.
Omnibox was tweaked as well. Added icons should help users to distinguish between searches, bookmarks, suggested sites or the ones from history.
Other new features include: HTML 5 video tag and web workers support, theme support (as from Themes Gallery) and more.
As for speed, the following release is now more than 30% faster in both, V8 and SunSpider benchmarks. Also, due to various improvements in many areas, web pages should load even faster.
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on August 5, 2009
