Just in the pask week or so, in fact, Google has reportedly made several dozen changes to the inner workings and user interface of its Chrome browser, many of them becoming evident in nightly builds over the past few days. It won't be long before they show up in stable releases of the software, so here's a look at some of the highlights of what's coming down the pike.
'SPDY' for Speed
Though it began to show up in Chrome in mid January, the SPDY protocol(pronounced "speedy") is now fully implemented, accroding to a report on ConceivablyTech. SPDY is an alternative to HTTP that's designed for trasnporting content over the Web with minimal latency, and in Google's lab tests, it's created reductions in page load times of up to 64 percent. Currently, howewer, those improvements are visible only when using Chrome to visit Google's own sites. All currently downloadable verisons of Google Chrome nightly build, canary, developer, beta and stable now reportedly support S PDY, which will eventually be released as open source, Google says.
Beefed Up Security
Targeting enterprise useers, Goole has also made some changes to its content security policy, conceivably Tech notes. Specifically, systems administrator can be now use Chrome to block particular types of content, including plug-ins, images, styles, fonts and inline scripts. This, of course, is in addition to the new warnings Google announced earlier this month that alert users to potentially dangerous downloads.
Touch Tabs
As of the lastest Chromium 12 nightly builds "touch tabs" allow users to select multiple homepages with app icons much like on a smartphone app screen. Just in the last few days, Google also reportedly added a "recently closed" option that lists such pages in a pop-up window.
Tab Scrolling
New scrool buttons have now been added to Chrome's side tabs so as to help users access tehm all. Judging by user coments, tab scrolliing has been a frequently requested feature for some time. In addition, tab tabels now reportedly feature a fading font in the Windows version of Chrome as well.
Webkit Improvements
Wih the latest Webkit version comes support for Win 7 gestures as well ad for Chrome's Skia backend, which will enable PDF rendering in print preview mode, according to repots.
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