Google Chrome 6 Beta was released today for all supported platforms. The name suggests that it should be a big jump from Google Chrome 5 Beta versions. If you too are thinking in that direction you are going to be bitterly disappointed.
Google Chrome 6 Beta version is just an update and not a newer enhanced version. It fixes the bugs that were present in earlier releases. Not a single new feature has been added.
The following issues have been fixed in Chrome 6 Beta.
1 : Don’t prepend scheme on copying an incomplete hostname
Chrome 5 Beta versions included a feature where the URL displayed in Omnibox (address bar) was shortened i.e. it didn’t display the http:// before the actual web address. This was a good feature but the problems user were facing was that when they copied the address they had to manually append http:// to it. Chrome 6 fixes this issue. If you copy the address from the Omnibar, it will automatically append http:// before the address.
2 : A twisted version of the same problem was being faced by the Linux users. The http:// was automatically appended when one copied the URL but it didn’t when someone used the cut function. This too has been fixed.
3 : Rendering of Monotype fonts has also been improved for the Linux users.
4 : The last thing that’s new in Chrome 6 is the better display of RTL and mixed-direction strings in the Omnibox dropdown