It's amazing how quiet a small office can become when one or two people are on holiday or paternity leave (especially unexpected early leave). Difficult to scope work when you're trying to manage multiple tasks and the day-to-day work the missing people have left behind.

Although it's rather old news now, Google Chrome v2 moved from beta testing (or development stage) to a stable release, last Friday. The main advantage of the new browser is that it's over 20% faster than the previous version, which was already an ultra-fast web browser. There's also a full-screen mode, a new tab structure, the facility to zoom in to web pages and much more. Sadly we can't use it for our day-to-day tasks as key sites such as our internal CMS simply won't support the browser.

One further note of caution. Although Google Chrome v2.0.172.28 is the stable release, there are slightly newer revisions (2.0.18x) in beta development. Avoid these unless you want cutting-edge pre-releases.

Google Chrome 2.0.172.28 link.

27 May 2009