First, the new Google Chrome uses a new version of WebKit engine, more precisely, revision 39410 from the WebKit source tree. In addition to fixing bugs and enabling features like full-page zoom and autoscroll, the new version also enables some nifty CSS features like CSS gradients, CSS canvas drawing, partial implementations of CSS reflections and CSS masks.

 

Also, Chrome 2.0 uses a new network code. The browser has now has its own implementation of the HTTP network protocol. As Mark Larson noted on the developer channel, Chrome was using the WinHTTP library on Windows, but the deves needed common code for Mac and Linux.

Amongst other new features brought by the 2.0.156.1 release there are form autocomplete, spell-checking improvements, autoscroll, docking dragged tabs, a faster more reliable SafeBrowsing and different browser profiles.

 

However, don’t’ rush to download the new browser, because Google Chrome 2.0 is still in its infancy, so there are a lot of things that need fixing and debugging.

 

Google issued the full release of its Chrome web browser on December 12, three months and a half after the initial release. Google Chrome’s elegant, minimalistic interface is designed to give as much space as possible to the webpage itself, with many elements such as the status bar and bookmark toolbar, which are present in IE and Firefox being reduced to temporary pop-ups of sorts, and others removed altogether, such as the menu bar.

It seems like so far Google has done a great job with Google Chrome, judging by its adoption rates.

 

According to the figures released earlier this month by NetApplications, in December 2008, Google Chrome has grabbed 1.04% of browser market, surpassing for the first time the 1 percent milestone. During the same month, Internet Explorer was used by only 68.15% of Internet users,