While keeping with its recently accelerated released schedule, Google released version 7 of it’s Chrome Web browser for Mac, Linux, and Windows. The latest release of Chrome offers several hundred bug fixes and under-the-hood improvements like an updated HTML5 parser, but it is light on the new features. Chrome users should get the update automatically but if you want, you can grab the browser from the Google Chrome download page.

The big news for this release is the large number of bug fixes which Google has implemented though many are still waiting. There are a few new features like support for the HTML5 File API, which allows for sites and Web apps to read the content of local files. This should be a boon to Web apps that rely on that feature. Another new feature is the ability for Chrome 7 to upload complete folders from your PC, which is pretty handy if you have got a lot of files to attach to an email or dozens of pictures. Unfortunately, the new feature relies on the HTML5 forms which very few sites use at the moment. There’s also some new AppleScript support in the Mac OS X release, which means you can script Chrome or use it with OS X’s Automater tool.

Two things you won’t be finding in the stable release of Chrome 7 are the Hardware Acceleration and “Tabpose” feature which was found in the developer release. Both features are currently available in the developer builds of Chrome 8, though they might not make it to the stable release category until Chrome 9. As usual, stay tuned for more news and info on the topic by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed.

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