It was just a short while back that we announced the release of
Google Chrome 6, and already we see the 7th version available in the
stable channel. This is only to be expected as Google had shortened the release cycles
of Google Chrome so that a new version would come out every 6 weeks.
As Google explained, this is to ensure that you don't have to wait long
to get new features, and even if Google is unable to get a feature
finished in time, it will only be another 6 weeks before you can get it
with the next version.
Yes, that means a new major version increment every 6 weeks! Or 8
major versions a year, or by this time next year you will be using
Chrome 15. Google, the ones who kept GMail in beta for half a decade,
really don't care about version numbers.
While Mozilla was first in implementing the HTML5 parser in their
Firefox 4 betas, Google Chrome 7 is now the first browser to bring this
to users in a release version. Another new feature in Chrome 7 is
directory upload support. So soon you will be able to upload your
entire collection of image at once instead of selecting them one at a
time.
Google Chrome 7 also includes the FileAPI, which will allow web
applications to open local files. This will allow JavaScript
applications to open a local file and edit it straight in the browser
without sending it to the server. So an image editing application
implemented in HTML5 could load a local image, work on it locally and
save it locally without needing any data to be transferred to the
server. This combined with offline applications support essentially
means that you could have full-fledged desktop-like applications
working in your browser.
If you have Google Chrome installed on your computer it should
automatically update to the latest version. If you're using a beta / dev
version you should have already moved up to Google Chrome 8.
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