Chrome 26 hits beta with a new spell-checking engine - mccoolspearknigh

Embarrassing connected the heels of last week's release of the Chrome 25 browser into the Stable Channel, Google on Tuesday pushed its eventual heir—Chromium-plate 26—into beta.

Whereas Chrome 25 was most leading light for its inclusion of a new JavaScript Entanglement Speech application programming interface (API)—allowing developers to include speech recognition features in their applications—the new Chrome 26 of import stands out primarily for its apply of a new spell-checking engine.

"Now's Chrome Beta release brings improved char checking to the browser," wrote Google programmer Rachel Petterson in a Tues blog send.

Syncing the custom lexicon

Specifically, Google has refreshed the dictionaries for Chrome's default spell-check, which straight off includes support for three extra languages: Peninsula, Tamil, and Albanian.

Perhaps more than generally electrifying—in particular for users with multiple devices—is that for those World Health Organization sync their settings, the custom lexicon now gets shared across devices.

"So, you won't indigence to teach that new Chromebook how to spell your name," Petterson celebrated.

Chrome's 'Expect Google for suggestions' is powered past the same technologies equally Google search (Click image to enlarge.)

The "Ask Google for suggestions" spell check feature, meanwhile—which is battery-powered by the cookie-cutter technologies as Google Search—now includes support for grammar, homonym, and context-sensitive spell checking in English. In the future, extra languages will be supported as well, Petterson aforesaid.

The new tour checking engine—which has been available in Google Docs for some time—even understands proper nouns such as "Justin Bieber" and "Skrillex," Petterson noted.

Mack support to stick to

Chrome 26.0.1410.12, as it's officially called, also contains a enumerate of early new improvements, including a developer preview of app launcher on Windows; unvoluntary compositing mood and threaded compositing on Macs; background shortcuts for multiple users happening Windows; updated menu styling in the Windows version's user interface; and an asynchronous DNS resolver on Mac and Linux.

The new changes will prove up for Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS users "in the coming weeks," Petterson said, with Macintosh support succeeding afterward that. In the meantime, you can fit them out for yourself in the newest Chrome Beta, which is now available as a free download.