According to company blogs, Google has turned round new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows maintaining three separate tracks for its Chrome Web browser: developer, beta, and stable. The updated stable release enabled extensions in the Google Chrome for Linux beta.

Ian Fette, Google Chrome product manager in the Google Chromium Blog said, “Among the APIs included is Web SQL Database API, enabling storage of data in a structured manner on a user's computer. We're already working on making these new APIs more useful, and you should see a couple of improvements on the developer channel soon. Google Chrome extensions use the same multi-process technology that makes the browser fast and more secure, so that extensions won't crash or slow down your browser”.

The Web Storage API offers a local storage component for simpler client-side storage of small amounts of data. The extensions in Chrome offer content and functionality from a Web site into the browser regardless of what sites the user has open; they can provide alerts and notifications or perhaps let a user access favourite Web services from icons next to a user's address bar. Chrome is downloadable at Google's Web site.

This story of Google offering HTML APIs and browser extensions in Chrome was published at InfoWorld. com. At the end of this year, Google plans to release Chrome OS, an operating system based on its Web browser.