Following an interview with vice president at Google, Marissa Mayer, at the Le Web Conference in Paris, Google issued the full release of its web browser, Chrome, on December 12. The Official Google Blog stated that the full release comes after 14 product updates and that Chrome 1.0 is more stable and much faster than former one.

Video plug-ins optimization is one of the biggest improvements users wanted from Google Chrome. The browser had always had glitches in playing videos, even from Google’s subsidiary, YouTube. The official blog states that these bugs were fixed in the final release. Furthermore, the blog states that the “V8 JavaScript engine runs 1.4 times faster” on Chrome 1.0 compared to its first beta release.

PC Magazine reviewed the browser yesterday and reported a 24 percent increase in speed, Chrome being much snappier than Internet Explorer and comparable with Mozilla Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. Yet, the reviewer reported that Google Chrome still uses the biggest amount of RAM, almost double than Firefox, when opening complex websites.

Google Chrome has been continuously updated since its initial release in September 2008. However, there are still issues that Chrome’s users have to cope with. Among the most important flaws of Google Chrome is the inability to access websites like Windows’ Hotmail because the browser is still not officially supported. Also, it is somehow surprising that even the company’s own Google Zeitgeist 2008 Website isn’t properly displayed in Google Chrome.

In the near future, it is expected that Google will release Linux and Mac version of Google Chrome, along with RSS support and an extensions platform.