14 DAY TRIAL // Google has released the latest version of its Chrome web browser for iOS platforms delivering an all-new look and feel with “Material Design,” as well as optimizations for iOS 8, Handoff support, and the usual bag of fixes.
Confirmed officially on the Chrome Releases blog, version 40 of Google’s popular mobile browser for iDevices gets a brand new look and feel through Material Design, which brings “bold graphics, fluid motion, and tactile surfaces,” as well as a number of optimizations for iOS 8, native support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (finally), and stability improvements.
Also included in this update, Handoff support is enabled with your default browser on OS X. Handoff is a Yosemite-only feature that lets users start a task on one device and continue it on the other. It works from iOS to OS X, and vice versa.
Supported languages include English, Arabic, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Google Chrome 40 is immediately available for download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. The minimum firmware requirement is iOS 7, and all iDevice models are now supported natively. iOS currently still doesn’t permit setting a third-party browser as default.