Chrome 6 Promoted to Beta Status

You can now download Chrome 6 Beta.

The new  features include: a simplified user interface, a new autofill feature for completing web forms, better syncing, which includes support for autofill data and extensions.

The autofill feature is integrated in Chrome 6 beta, so all of your instances of Chrome (home, work, laptop, etc) will be able to share preferences, extensions, browsing data and themes, as well as form data.  Chrome will store, sync, and remember information you’d normally put in a web form.  Additionally, Chrome can remember credit card information.

In the next couple of weeks, Chrome will probably move from a beta to a general stable release.

Latest Beta Version of Firefox 4 Released

Mozilla has released the latest beta version of its Firefox 4 browser.  You can download the Firefox 4 beta 3 for all major operating systems and over 30 languages from here.

The biggest addition is for touch events inside the browser on Windows 7 machines, which has built-in support for multi-touch actions on touch screen tablets, desktops, and laptops.  Firefox now enables you to interact with websites simply by touching them.  Check out this video

There have also been enhancements to JavaScript capabilities with Firefox, giving scripting animation  performance a noticeable boost, making the speed difference less noticeable.

Note that Firefox 4 is only a pre-release browser.  Firefox 4 will be officially released in October or November of this year