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hey guys I'm KB HD here and welcome to another high-definition video and today we're going to be taking a look at Google's latest creation if you couldn't already tell Google is yes one of my favorite companies and today we're going to be taking a look at this magnificent browser here what you're looking at is Google Chrome 7 you may have noticed it looks just a little tiny bit different from other versions of Google Chrome but why don't we gonna be taking a look at today that includes benchmarking for some speed tests some opening tests and some other things like that and just getting to know this browser a little bit better first of all something I want to address as we go ahead and view about Google Chrome is that all your extensions will still work so as soon as you visit the link in the description and of course check out the latest version of Chrome note that unlike Firefox and unlike opera and unlike Internet Explorer all those hundreds of thousands of extensions you have available are gonna work so that's just great so the first thing I wanted to show you was the new ability to use side tabs say I have a number of tabs open here say Tumblr I have open you might have noticed I actually do have a tumblr now might be a little bit late what I want to do over here is right-click on the tabs and what we can do is hit that use side tabs button and you can see it immediately switches to this interesting little view that I kind of kind of like kind of don't like but you know it's it's new and it's something most other browsers haven't had the ability to I believe opera does and this ability allows you to just add new tabs simply just like this and X amount on the left-hand side here it does save some vertical screen space if you have a widescreen monitor this can be very helpful as you don't have a whole lot of room from top to bottom so this is really cool and of course in order to switch back you right-click and uncheck use side tabs and bam you're right back into this view of the top tab view so that's the first thing about Google Chrome 7 next thing we're going to show you is over here on this wrench this is something that has been constantly evolving through versions of Chrome and I'll go ahead and show you right here say I type in tests of course we have Google Instant up here what we're gonna do is go to well first of all I'll walk you through this whole thing here you have the new tab button which is control T the new window and new ink on a window button there still is no ability to use a new incognito window but our new incognito tab you can also have this copy button edit cup copy and paste right here so I'll hit copy you can just go ahead and copy what is highlighted there and go ahead and paste it just like that didn't exactly work that time but if I had a text field open it would definitely have worked hopefully well well obviously these things are still in beta but obviously obviously obviously obviously obviously when you get this working together it should work when the full version of Google Chrome is out obviously gotta stop saying that by the way you have the full screen button you have the zoom buttons and you have all your typical buttons here and now you only go under tools you also have the extensions button which was usually in the main section of Google Chrome but you have your extensions button over here on the left hand side under tools now and you also have the ability to create an application shortcut which I'm going to do now when you click that I'll go ahead and just put it on my desktop I don't want it on my Start menu or anything and click create it just makes a little a little window here and it's actually just a program literally an application you don't have a URL bar or anything fancy like that it's just a Google google.com box and you can of course use Instant Search in there and it could be a nifty little application also you have that on your desktop which I'll go ahead and delete so that's an interesting little feature that's adopted from Google Chrome 6 that they've carried along into version 7 so now something I want to show you is the fishtank test this is a performance test it's pretty much the next best thing to the acid3 test and this tests hardware acceleration I have this link here in the description it will be shortened with bitly but trust me when you visit it it will be this link I'm going to go ahead and paste it up here in the top and we'll see if we can get chrome to respond here and we'll go ahead and visit the Microsoft this is usually used to test Internet Explorer and basically you can go ahead and do is test a fish tank this fish tank animation here so typically it'll be running at a slightly higher framerate but right now have this little fish swimming around the tank an Internet Explorer when they introduced the new version this was a big deal with hardware acceleration and if we are using Chrome 6 you would be able to tell this is 1280 by 720 I'm not sure oh it's smaller here it would be a much slower animation and if we got up to just 10 fish in chrome 6 you'd be down to about 12 frames per second here and if we got up to 20 fish with a screen recorder going it would be almost unplayable you couldn't see movements it'll be in a single-digit frame per second it would be really slow and with hardware acceleration well it's just playable at a much higher frame rate of course it's not a game but you can definitely see this is much nicer so the last thing I'm going to show you guys is the acid3 test and of course Google Instant takes us there immediately and Google has been pretty much mastering the acid3 test for a while now Google Chrome pretty much dominated at Google Chrome 5 Google Chrome 6 they both killed it and Google Chrome 7 is no exception you'll get up to a hundred out of 100 in the acid3 test and one more thing I want to demonstrate to you guys is that yeah it does open really quickly you can see over on the side here I'm going to go ahead and drag a copy to my desktop so you can see how fast I actually open Google Chrome and you can count down the milliseconds from the time I click access the Internet to the time I'm on the Internet so it is a very fast browser there's been nothing to bring me back from Firefox nothing to bring me to opera nothing that this browser can't do that any other browser can do so if you've been on Internet Explorer if you've been on Firefox or opera or something something just out there maybe chameleon or some other web browser I highly suggest you give version 7 beta of Google Chrome a try as it is pretty much the best software I have ever used and it's something I use more often than anything else on my computer so this is man mkbhd with a slow sweet little video about google chrome 7 i'm getting back into the screencast if you guys couldn't tell this one is a more casual video but I hope to talk to you guys in the next episode of mkbhd and until then thank you for watching