More stuff new in this beta is autocomplete for form fields, which is rather an awesome feature. The browsing history cleaning functionality apparently was there before, some googling revealed. I did also find the dev release version where all this neatness, zoom, autoscroll, autocomplete and so on was added but is it of much importance? I don't think so, you can google it up if you need to know. The main thing is it's here and the other beta channel users to enjoy.
I also came across a discussion about Chrome plugins today, specifically mouse gestures and I found it terribly amusing how some people were defending even such a simple gesture as opening a link in a new tab to their grave. I prefer pressing the wheel, it's much simpler than a twitch of my wrist. Yes, I can see there are places where this doesn't work, but if you can't be arsed to every once in a while select an address and click a few extra times I'd label you sickly lazy. If you can't even do that you'll get rooted where you sit or lay, or something eventually... I can see the back/forward gestures being missed, though I have a mouse with said buttons so I haven't really needed them gestures. Maxthon had gestures built in so I got to use them some, but they never grew on me in a way that I'd try to use them all around. Save for the Refresh-gesture which I occasionally tried using in IE. But no others.
I'm lazy, but the amount laziness that results in the inability to cope with having to do something with more than one click and a flick of your wrist every now and then is already unhealthy: It's the modern trend though, everything has to come at you with the flick of your fingers or wrist. And it's what drives people fat, tired and antisocial I bet.
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