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Google's browser forges ahead as Chrome 3 hits dev channel

Just because GMail has been stuck in beta since last century doesn't mean Google isn't capable of rolling out new versions of their apps in a timely fashion. With Chrome 2 officially less than a week old, big G has made the jump to version 3 on the Chrome Dev channel.

Don't get too excited just yet, however. The changelog is still fairly short and isn't all that interesting - unless you have hundreds of thousands of bookmarks, in which case you'll be glad to know that some UI lag has been addressed. Tab, window, and Bookmark Extension APIs also received updates and some interface components have been retouched. As now noted elsewhere on the 'net, v3 also supports the HTML5 video tag - something that is probably worth mentioning in release notes, Google...

In terms of the browsing experience, nothing has changed yet. No, there's hasn't been another 30% speed boost to javascript performance.

To download Chrome v3, visit the install page via this link. The latest Chromium nightly builds have made the version jump as well.

At this rate, Chrome should be up to v8 or 9 before GMail hits RTM.

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