One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications easily and quickly.

Here are some key features of "Google Chrome":

· One box for everything
· New Tab page
· Application shortcuts
· Dynamic tabs
· Crash control
· Incognito mode
· Safe browsing
· Instant bookmarks
· Importing settings
· Simpler downloads

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The focus on this release has been feature polish, stability improvement, and extensions work.

· Extensions
Lots of work to polish and stabilize the browser and page action APIs:

· [r29556] Add badge text color API. Also change color APIs from ARGB to RGBA (breaking change, sorry!)(Issues: 24635, 24644, 25215)

· [r29152, r29785] Browser actions (buttons, popups) are now implemented. (Issue: 23882, 23897)

· [r29997] Add support for tab-specific state to browser actions. Also, fix the bug where only the first call to setIcon() works. (Issues: 24669,24472)

· [r30346] Constrain browser action popups to a min/max size. Also fix some glitches in popup sizing. (Issue 25214)

· [r30499] Use a better signature for the new page actions API (chrome.pageAction.* instead of chrome.pageActions.*). This is technically a breaking change, but hopefully not too many people had gotten around to using the new API yet. (Issue 25833)

· [r29665] Remove toolstrips on linux. They were causing lots of...

Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:

· Attempts to change the homepage for web browsers installed on the system
· Attempts to change the default search engine for web browsers installed on the system