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Google Chrome gets hefty speed boost

Google Chrome gets hefty speed boost

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Google's Chrome web browser version 5 is now in beta and the company reckons it's the fastest ever. Software engineer Mads Ager, who heads up the V8 Project which looks after the browser's Javascript engine, reckons the latest round of tuning, testing and polishing has given Chrome "a hefty boost in speed". He says that the beta is up to 35 per cent snappier than that last version, and more than 300 per cent faster than the very first offering. As well as the...



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