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Google Chrome 46 Enters Beta with Flexible Animations, Optimized Image Loading


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The web browser is based on Chromium 46.0.2490.13

After announcing the promotion of the Google Chrome 45 web browser to the stable channel on September 1, Google pushed earlier today, September 2, the Chrome 46 web browser to the Beta channel for testers worldwide.

According to the release notes, Google Chrome 46.0.2490.13 is based on the freely distributed sources of the Chromium 46.0.2490.13 open-source web browser, and brings with it new features like flexible animations, new JavaScript language features, multiple API tweaks, optimizations to loading of images, security enhancements, as well as numerous under-the-hood improvements and lots of bugfixes.

"Previously, animating objects along an author-specified path required complex javascript code that could block important events like rendering and input.

Developers can now animate any graphical object along an arbitrary path declaratively as a CSS property, allowing simpler code that doesn’t block rendering or input," reads the announcement.

Chrome 46 Beta has many other improvements

In addition to the new features mentioned above, the new Google Chrome 46.0.2490.13 Beta release includes many other improvements, such as support for spread operator and new.target, Request.redirect support in the Fetch API, support for custom network profiles and better tool tips in DevTools, the ability to set an iframe attribute to sites, support for CSS.escape(), deferring of video playback in background tabs, and the ability to disable the web browser's default scroll restoration behavior.

As usual, you can download Google Chrome 46.0.2490.13 Beta for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now via Softpedia or directly from the project's website, whichever suits you best, but please try to keep in mind that it is a pre-release version, not suitable for production use. This release is also available for Google's Android and Chrome OS Linux kernel-based operating systems. The stable version of Google Chrome is 45.0.2454.85, and Chrome 47 is in the Dev channel.

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