Google releases Chrome 4.0

Google has released version 4.0 its Chrome web browser, which it claims has more than 1,500 new features.
It only works under Windows of course, so Apple and Linux users will have to wait about a year before the Chrome browser on their machines is up to speed.
Actually the 1,500 features are file extensions that are created by developers to add functionality to Chrome. Goodness knows how many of these Firefox has and no one considered them as the highlight of a browser release before.

While the extensions are useful but not really anything spectacular, bookmark sync is probably more useful. It means you can share your bookmarks between multiple computers without needing to recreate your bookmarks or copy them from system to system every time you switch machines.
This release has a few more HTML5 APIs for developers to play with including Localstorage, Database API, and Websockets.
Google claims that the Chrome 4.0 browser's performance is a lot faster. Using Mozilla's Dromaeo DOM Core Tests, the browser has increased in speed by 42 per cent over the last stable release and 400 per cent since the first one