Google’s release Monday of a “stable channel” update of the Google Chrome browser for Windows features HTML and JavaScript APIs as well as browser extensions, according to company blogs.
The company defines its stable channel as one that offers features and fixes that have been thoroughly tested in the beta channel, even if they may not be the latest features.
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Ballmer’s 10th anniversary as CEO of Microsoft arrives in January, but it’s hard to imagine he’ll be celebrating. Microsoft stock has dropped by nearly 50 percent on his watch, lagging not just other tech companies but even the Dow Jones industrial average. Distracted by the Windows Vista fiasco, Ballmer has missed every big new tech market of the past decade.
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Two key pieces of Google’s effort to make Chrome a more competitive browser fell into place on Tuesday as Google released beta versions of the browser for Mac OS X and Linux.
Tuesday’s software release is a version of Chrome that had previously been available only as developer preview software for Mac and Linux machines. “It took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it,” product manager Brian Rakowski said in a blog post.
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