December 11, 2008 - 11:54 am PDT - by
Adam Ostrow
Google has announced that its Chrome browser is now out of beta – an unusually quick transition for Google considering that Gmail still bears the “Beta” tag, 4+ years after its launch.
In the announcement, Google claims “more than 10 million active users around the Globe,” 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).
In 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’t play sometimes … whoops). Additionally, one of Chrome’s most requested features and its perhaps biggest weakness versus competitors – support for extensions – is supposedly in the works.