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On February 7, 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) devices.

On February 7, Google Chrome Beta was launched for Android 4.0 for selected countries.

Features
'Google Chrome Beta' for Android devices is available for devices running the Ice Cream Sandwich version of the operating system. It was launched on February 7, 2012, for a limited number of countries. The Android version can be installed from Android Market. It currently lacks some features available in the desktop version, but has some additional features:


 * Synchronization with desktop Chrome to provide the same bookmarks and view the same browser tabs
 * Page pre-rendering
 * Hardware acceleration
 * Many of the latest HTML5 features to the Android platform, almost all of the Web Platform’s features: GPU-accelerated canvas, including CSS 3D Transforms, CSS animations, SVG, WebSocket (including binary messages), Dedicated Workers; it has overflow scroll support, strong HTML5 video support, and new capabilities such as IndexedDB, WebWorkers, Application Cache and the File APIs, date and time pickers, parts of the Media Capture API. Also supports mobile oriented features such as Device Orientation and Geolocation.
 * Tabs can be switched with a swipe gesture
 * Link Preview allows zooming in on (multiple) links so as to insure clicking on the right one
 * Font Boosting is used when text on the website is too small to be read properly. It uses an algorithm to increase font sizes when necessary, aiming to make the text readable regardless of the zoom level.
 * Remote debugging
 * Does not sandbox tabs
 * No support for Safe Browsing
 * Chrome apps and extensions are not supported
 * Does not support Adobe Flash and will not do so in the future
 * Does not support WebGL nor Native Client
 * Part of the browser layer has been implemented in Java, communicating with the rest of the Chromium and WebKit code through Java Native Bindings.

The code of Chrome for Android is a fork of the Chromium project. One of the top priorities is upstreaming most new and modified code to Chromium and WebKit to resolve the fork.

Reception
Tabs that are open on the desktop can be sent to and seen, already open, on the mobile version [...] That means proper tabbed browsing, too, implemented in a way that is even better than Apple’s excellent iOS browser.

"Performance-wise Chrome is fast. It scrolls, zooms and loads any web page just as quickly as you’d expect despite carrying the beta moniker. [...] You can control almost every aspect of your web browsing from choosing what content you want to allow to load like JavaScript, images, cookies and pop-ups. If you are out of Wi-Fi access, you can, for example, choose temporarily not to load images.", concluding "Chrome is an enhanced version of the already excellent stock Android browser and builds on it quite a lot, with the exception of the lack of Flash support."

"[It] functions separately from the stock system browser -- and offers plenty of advantages over it, too." "Chrome for Android gets tabs right. [...] [it] automatically pops up a magnified view anytime you tap a link that's close to other links on the page" "Perhaps the most impressive feature of Chrome for Android is its integrated sync capability. [including] the ability to sync open tabs, meaning you can actually see what tabs you have open on any other Chrome-running device." "one of the biggest benefits of the new Chrome Android browser is its speed" concluding that "My first impression, without a doubt, is that Chrome for Android is a tremendous step forward for Android-based browsing"