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Chrome 14: Pretty and Fast.

Chrome 14 is slowly leaving the other Web browsers behind.
By Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor
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Chrome 14 leaves IE 9 eating its dust when it comes to HTML5 compatibility.

See full review:  Chrome 14: The best Web browser keeps getting better

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Chrome now has Print Preview built-in into its print function. Another nice feature it that it automatically focuses on the Web page's important content. Now, if it only worked properly on Macs all the time...

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At the moment, Chrome's new audio support is more of a neat trick than useful, but it is a heck of a trick and I can see really neat games and applications in its future.
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You could always run Web applications in Chrome, but with Native Client you'll soon be able to run native desktop applications within Chrome as well.
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While Chrome 14's fanciest features have trouble on Mac OS X, its core functionality is there and it's faster than Safari on my Macs.

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