Hot on the heels of last week's Google Chrome 25 release, Chrome 26 is now in Beta.
Chrome 25 was mostly noted for its inclusion of a new Web Speech JavaScript API, which allowed developers to include speech recognition in its apps. Chrome 26 is now set to stand out with some new features, including a new spell-check engine. More specifically, the dicitionaries for the spell checker have been "refreshed" and include 3 new languages, Korean, Albanian and Tamil. In addition to this (and probably more interesting for anyone who only uses English), custom dictionaries can now be shared accross devices, which is useful for anyone with unconventional name spellings or just kids who don't want to be told that words like PWNED and Haxx0r are wrong when they switch to their tablet from the PC.
The new Engine will understand popular references and celebrities, with "Justin Bieber" and "Skrillex" being the examples used by Google software engineer Rachel Petterson. Other features of Chrome 26 include forced compositing mode and threaded compositing mode on Macs, Multiple User desktop shortcuts on Windows, updated menu stylin in the Windows Version UI and an asynchronous DNS resolver for Linux and Mac. The full update is expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks.
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