Google Releases Stable Build Of Chrome 41 With Pull-to-refresh; Chrome 42 Beta Adds Support For Notifications From Sites

Google releases stable build of Chrome 41 with pull-to-refresh; Chrome 42 beta adds support for notifications from sites

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Published 11 Mar 2015

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The Google Chrome team for Android today announced the release of Chrome 41 for Android as well as Chrome 42 Beta for Android.

The latest stable release of Chrome for Android adds the ability to pull to refresh a webpage from the top, along with performance and stability improvements. The update will be available for download on the Google Play Store over the next few days.

The pull to refresh feature was first introduced by Google in the Chrome for Android beta channel towards the end of January.

As for the latest release of Chrome beta for Android, it adds quite a lot of new features, including the ability to receive notifications from sites about any new posts if they support it. A mini changelog of the update is below:

Get the latest updates from sites with notifications.
Adding your favorite sites to your homescreen is now even easier.
Bug fixes and speedy performance improvements.

The beta update will be available for download from the Play Store in the next few hours.

[Via Chrome blog]