Updating the line. Meet Google Chrome 7 Stable

So, according to the accelerated release calendar, Google has moved the seventh version of the web browser to the Stable channel. And, unfortunately, the updates are not very pleasing to me personally. Developers, of course, actively saw the browser, releasing not just daily builds, but hourly ones, changing and adding functionality, but they didn’t add major changes. It seems that Google is chasing the numbers, giving each bugfix a new major number, although, in my opinion, the changes are pulling at 6.1, or even 4.5, because nothing revolutionary has been added since the launch of the extensions. I place special expectations on the 8th branch, since there we are waiting for a hybrid of the operating system and browser. Yes, the same Chromium OS (in a slightly truncated size), which recently quietly moved to the Release Candidate stage.

So, the changes of the seventh version:
1. Several hundred bugs fixed .
2. New HTML5 parsing algorithm. Before the HTML5 specifications, there was no standard on how browsers should handle markup with errors. With the advent of a new algorithm embedded in WebKit (which means that future versions of Safari will use the same algorithm) and used in Firefox 4, browsers will display error pages the same way. Thus, better compatibility between pages and browsers will be provided, as well as, as a bonus, the ability to embed SVG and MathML in HTML. To embed SVG, you simply add a tag to your HTML page and you can use the full power of SVG.
3. File API .
4."Directory Upload" through the input tag. Now you can upload files to some services, but entire directories with files. Thanks to the new tag, services will be able to read the contents of folders and download them to themselves.
5. Ability to specify cookies save exceptions.

Thus, Google Chrome has a complete analogue of the missing settings for Opera’s site. You can prohibit certain resources from saving the very deanonymizing files that are blocked in large numbers on sites.
6. Closing a number of vulnerabilities .

I will conduct several tests on Ubuntu Linux 10.10, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz, 2Gb RAM:
1). Google Chrome 7 still sets the tone for HTML5 support, leaving other browsers far behind.

2). In the V8 benchmark, Chrome has long gone ahead, showing high results. The seventh version did not become an exception:


In general, most likely WIN than FAIL, although we still did not get WebGL / Hardware Acceleration / Print Preview support, although we promised support for the first and last. Apparently, the googel decided to show what they have in the zagashnik, but so far they decided not to spread it. Also, the built-in plug-in launch blocker was not turned on, which blocked the launch of Flash / Silverlight-page content until the user starts it.

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