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Chrome and browser speed tests: Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic

May 6, 2010

This past week, we released a new beta version of our web browser, Google Chrome. This beta release includes one of our biggest speed improvements to date and a handful of nifty new features. All the goodness of the new Chrome beta will be made more widely available to all Chrome users when we release it in Chrome's stable channel in the coming weeks – so stay tuned to the Google Chrome blog for these updates!
In the meantime, with this beta's crazy performance improvements, we designed a series of unconventional speed tests for the browser:

And here's a behind-the-scenes look at how we designed, built, and implemented these speed tests:

If you're curious about the technical details on how we filmed these speed test videos, read on in the video's description drop-down in YouTube.
Posted by the Google Chrome Team and Google Creative Lab