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Google Chrome stable is now at version 2.0. Forgive me if I don’t sound too excited, I’ve been running Chrome 2.0 dev-channel (Google has three version of Chrome dev, beta and stable) for months without issue on a test box. But for those that aren’t running the dev-channel Chrome 2.0 is a big step forward. It’s faster, has fewer bugs and oh yeah more features too.
The biggest new feature highlighted by Google is support for full-screen mode, something dev-channel Chrome users have enjoyed since since Chrome dev 2.0.166.1 which came out in February.
“We’ve made a lot of changes to stuff you never see, such as a newer version of WebKit for rendering web pages, a new network stack, and improvements to speed up the V8 Javascript engine,” -Mark Larson
Google Chrome Program Manager said in a blog post.
The V8 engine is a critical component of Chrome and make JavaScript run faster, a whole lot faster in Chrome 2. Google has invested a lot of effort into making JavaScript execution a key feature and differentiator for their browser ever since the first Chrome release last September.