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Google Chrome 51 Released As Stable

Google has officially released the Chrome 51 web-browser update.

As covered previously on Phoronix, Chrome 51 brings a Credential Management API, lower overhead for offscreen rendering, improvements to the ServiceWorkers implementation, better HTML5 canvas support, Chrome on Android media enhancements, and more.

Chrome 51 also covers a variety of security fixes as outlined by the Google Chrome Release blog.