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Chrome 47 Beta Brings Cooperative Multi-Tasking, Splash Screens On Android

Written by Michael Larabel in Google on 22 October 2015 at 10:22 AM EDT. 7 Comments

Google rolled out the Chrome 47 Beta web browser today for Android, Chrome OS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Chrome 47 brings splash screens to Android when launching a site from a user's home screen, cooperative multi-tasking support via a requestIdleCallback() function, support for auto-dismissing notifications, and various other updates. Chrome 47 also does away with its notification center.

More details on this morning's Chrome 47 Beta release can be found via the Chromium Blog.

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