구글 공식 블로그 등에 따르면, 자바스크립트가 무겁게 돌아가는 웹사이트의 경우 크롬 브라우저가 약 30% 정도 빨라지는 효과를 내도록 업데이트 됐다고 합니다. 렌더링 엔진 구조의 변화겠지요.

Today, we are updating to a new version of Google Chrome that is faster than ever. JavaScript-heavy web pages will now run about 30% faster. See the chart below or compare scores yourself. <발췌>

또한 구글은 http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/05/speedier-google-chrome-for-all-users.html 를 통해 기능 추가도 발표했습니다. 특히 풀스크린 모드는 넷북 등에 사용하면 좋겠군요.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/put-pedal-to-metal-with-faster-google.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10246822-2.html

Improved New Tab Page: The most requested feature from users was the ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab page. Now you can finally hide that embarrassing gossip blog from the Most Visited section.

Full Screen Mode: If you've ever given a presentation or watched a large video using Google Chrome, you might have wished you could use every last pixel on your screen for the content. Now you can hide the title bar and the rest of the browser window by hitting F11 or selecting the option in the Tools menu.

Form Autofill: Filling out your information in forms over and over again can be tedious. Form autofill helps by showing information you've previously entered into the same form fields automatically. If at any point you want to clear out your information, that's easy to do from the Tools menu.

Increased Stability: Google Chrome is more stable than ever--we have fixed over 300 bugs that caused crashes since launch.

Increased Speed: Making the web faster continues to be our main area of focus. Thanks to a new version of WebKit and an update to our JavaScript engine, V8, interactive web pages will run even faster. We've also made sure that JavaScript keeps running fast even when you have lots of tabs open. Try opening a bunch of web applications and then running your favorite benchmark. You can read more about V8 in our JavaScript scalability post on the Chromium blog.