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"Google has announced that its Chrome browser is now out of beta \u2013 an unusually quick transition for Google considering that Gmail still bears the \u201CBeta\u201D tag, 4+ years after its launch.  \nIn the announcement, Google claims \u201Cmore than 10 million active users around the Globe,\u201D a believable number considering the roughly 1-3 percent market share according to various estimates that the browser has been able to attract so far (3.4% of Mashable readers use it too).  \nIn addition to removing the beta tag, Chrome has added a number of new features and fixes over the past few weeks, like a bookmark manager and fixing the problems with audio and video (they simply didn\u2019t play sometimes \u2026 whoops).  Additionally, one of Chrome\u2019s most requested features and its perhaps biggest weakness versus competitors \u2013 support for extensions \u2013 is supposedly in the works.\nI\u2019ll admit, I\u2019m one of those Chrome users \u2013 most of the time.  The lack of support for extensions and the audio/video problems force me to switch back to Firefox several times each day, but Chrome\u2019s speed makes my workday \u2013 reading hundreds of news items, responding to email and IMs, downloading files, searching Google, and working with WordPress \u2013 quicker and easier, which is enough of a sell for me.  \nNow that it\u2019s out of Beta, Google will likely pursue the type of deals that made Internet Explorer the world\u2019s most popular browser \u2013 bundling it with new computers and other software packages.  While that will help it gain some users, the bigger question is, what would it take for you to become a dedicated Chrome user?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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