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Google Chrome has now officially shed beta mode, and has done so in just 100 days of the public release of the browser. If you compare this to Gmail, which is still in beta even after 4 years of its launch, you will understand how much focus and attention Google is giving to the browser – and how important this is to Google’s future ambitions. Chrome is now downloaded more than 10 million times, and has made some significant enhancements like:

Better stability and performance of plug-ins (particularly video). Video and audio glitches were among the most common bugs fixed during the beta period. If you had problems watching videos with Google Chrome in the past, you should be pleasantly surprised with the performance now.

Even more speed. Google Chrome starts up fast, loads pages quickly, and just keeps getting faster. Since the first beta, the V8 JavaScript engine runs 1.4 times faster on theSunSpider benchmark and 1.5 times faster on the V8 benchmark — and there is more speed to come.

Bookmark manager and privacy controls. We heard you! Better bookmark features were a top request from our users. It’s now easier to switch between another browser and Google Chrome with the bookmark import and export features, and we added a new simple way to manage large numbers of bookmarks, too. We also wanted to make it even easier for you to control your browsing data, so all of the features in Google Chrome which affect user privacy are now grouped in one place with detailed explanations for each one.

The move might be an attempt to make the browser more acceptable by OEMs, whom Google is courting in order to get its browser ship in by default on their laptops, and PCs.