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Google has announced a new version of Google Chrome beta for desktop. This new version of chromes comes with some important new features. Now Google Chrome has built-in support for webcam and microphone. It also improved cloud based printing and added gamepad support from connected devices.
Now web application can access camera and microphone of users' system with with user request. For this feature, Google Chrome uses getUserMedia API which allows high-quality video and audio communication on the web. Now users will not have to install any third party plugin for webcam features.
Google Chrome blog announced about this feature, "In today’s Chrome Beta release, it’s now possible for you to grant web apps access to your camera and microphone right within the browser, without a plug-in. This is thanks to the getUserMedia API, which is the first big step for WebRTC, a new real-time communications standard that aims to allow high-quality video and audio communication on the web."
Other important feature of this Google Chrome is support for cloud based printing. Now integrated printer will be shown into the print dialog. Users will also be able to save web pages as PDF format directly to their Google Docs account. But they need to be login first.
If we could remember, Google Chrome is not the first web browser with built-in camera support to browser. In mid june, Opera 12 also came with built-in camera support.
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