One of my favorite features of Chrome, the quick links to your 9 most visited sites when you open a new tab, is now customizable, letting you move any site you’d like quick access to into one of the slots.
Meanwhile, the so-called Omnibox (the address bar in other browsers) has become a bit easier to understand, with a series of icons “helping you distinguish between suggested sites, searches, bookmarks, and sites from your browsing history.”
As for the performance improvements, the Chrome team explains how they did it on their blog:
"Beyond the improvements in JavaScript execution in this latest beta, there are a host of other improvements that should help Google Chrome make the most of your network connection. For example, when you open a new web page while other web pages are still loading, Google Chrome is now smarter about prioritizing the requests for the new page -- for instance, fetching text, images, and video for your new page -- ahead of the requests from the older pages. Loading pages on this beta release should also be faster than ever with DNS caching, more efficient DOM bindings, and using V8 for proxy auto-config."
Finally, similar to other Google products like Gmail, Chrome now has its own themes, so you can change the appearance of your browser to something like "star gazing" or "candy". To install a theme, you simply go to Chrome’s Themes Gallery, but you’ll need to download the new beta for it to work.
