Chrome beta now has support for “instant pages” and print preview.

Google has released a new version of beta Chrome, which supports "instant pages" and ... you won’t believe it - print preview.

Let's start with “ Instant Pages .” The feature was introduced earlier this week and works as follows:


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This version of Chrome implements the pre-rendering technology necessary to use instant pages:

What is pre-rendering? Sometimes a website can predict with a sufficient degree of accuracy which link a user will most likely click on next - for example, the link “next page” in a multi-page article. In these cases it would be faster and better for the user, if the browser loaded the next page in advance - and when the user clicks on the link, the page will already be loaded. This is the main idea of ​​pre-rendering.

At the moment, the technology is already used in Google.com. Developers who want to implement it in their sites can use a special guide .

In addition to pre-rendering support, the new Chrome beta for search queries via the address bar ( omnibox ) offers options for partial matches with previous queries:

Suppose you have listened to YouTube’s “Zorbing” song several times on Stornoway, but you cannot remember the full name of the song or group. Now, when you type just a part of one of the words, for example, “orb”, you will receive a sentence by partial coincidence: “YouTube.com - Stornoway - 'Z orb ing' Official Video”.

Well finally print preview. To understand the issue, it must be said that the very first version of Google Chrome was released on September 1, 2008 The next day, one of the users sent a bug report to the Chromium project, in which he wrote:

No print preview option. I think it is necessary so that you can see what the page will look like before you spend paper and toner.

Three years have passed, thirteen versions have been released, and now, in the end, Chrome has a print preview feature.

Let's give the floor to the Google developers themselves:

Secondly, we are pleased to announce that the application number 173 in our public database of errors, which brought together more than 900 "stars" from users around the world since it was filed in 2008, has been implemented on Windows and Linux (soon on Mac). Yes - we finally added a print preview! Print preview in Chrome uses the built-in PDF viewer to display the page you need to print, and it is updated automatically when you set up print options. You can also save any webpage as a PDF file using the Print to PDF option, which is automatically included in the list of printers. Thank you for your patience!

Chrome 13 will be in beta for a few weeks and then become a stable version, with new features. Meanwhile, Chrome 14 has already appeared in the channel for developers.