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Chrome Goes to 11, Brings Flattened Logo With It

9:00 AM - April 28, 2011 by Marcus Yam - source: Tom's Hardware US

The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

Google's Chrome browser has been evolving faster than your Pokemon. Today the stable version of the browser reached version 11, which is quite remarkable considering that version 10 was released just in March.

Of course, it could be just a numbers game to see who can count up the fastest – but there are still a number of new improvements in the browser. Google Translate now supports microphone input via HTML5 (and your microphone). This speech recognition technology could have far reaching implications for more than just translations – especially for those who aren't able to use a keyboard.

Also new in version 11 is an update to the built-in Adobe Flash plugin and other security improvements. Immediately noticeable by all users, however, will be the new Google Chrome logo, which looks a little less like a pokeball.

Gone is this old logo:

And new is this flat one that follows the modern trend of minimalism:

Download Chrome 11 here.

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draxssab 04/28/2011 3:10 PM

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Prefered was the ancient logo

phoenix777 04/28/2011 3:11 PM

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wow, love the logo.

jednx01 04/28/2011 3:12 PM

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This is news? Rofl. I've been using that logo with my beta version for months...

Big Daddy Rhino 04/28/2011 3:12 PM

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Hate the new logo. Gimme back my ball.

-Alessandro- 04/28/2011 3:15 PM

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:s
it's a going-backwards logo... like more the 3D logo

casperstouch 04/28/2011 3:19 PM

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Does the old logo look similar to the portal character?

fritter87 04/28/2011 3:25 PM

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the old one looks much better!

Accidental 04/28/2011 3:27 PM

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Ubuntu 11 came out today. [Licks thumb, holds to the wind].. I feel 11s coming today.

derwin75 04/28/2011 3:29 PM

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I like the old Google Logo better than the new one....I wish Google changes it back.

renami9 04/28/2011 3:31 PM

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this is just my opinion, but i think the old logo looks more modern than the new logo.

bloodlover 04/28/2011 3:34 PM

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Totally useless "news"

vafik 04/28/2011 3:39 PM

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So is this logo going to be faster the the last logo? About time we get some fast stable logos around here. Thank God someone is on the ball!

ericburnby 04/28/2011 3:41 PM

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I can see why they changed the logo. Old one reminds me of Hal looking over your shoulder. Google probably doesn't want a logo that reminds people of a thinking computer that'll take over the world some day.

mrgreggie 04/28/2011 3:43 PM

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The old logo looks cool in my book, but the new one is much more modern, mainstream, and marketable.

dalta centauri 04/28/2011 4:01 PM

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Shading, depth, vibrance of colors?
We don't want these designs apparently, we want a flat simplistic design.
Speaking of which, I wonder how much they spent a Graphics Designer to make it...

Anonymous 04/28/2011 4:15 PM

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offline gmail anyone? bring back some offline support after they've disabled it? something?

truchonic 04/28/2011 4:20 PM

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the first logo is nice and the second is like 1990 logo even the company have 2 years with google crome

Anonymous 04/28/2011 4:29 PM

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Im just going to keep the old logo, looks better. Good thing windows lets you choose.

Krnt 04/28/2011 4:36 PM

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I always loved the way the old logo felt like a pendant or a star in my desktop or in my taskbar shining with light and hope to the users of my computer, now the new one feels so dim and dead, that is even hard to find.

If you want to keep the old logo for some time, use the 12.0.712, this one still uses the old logo, and is the one I use, because this new logo is awful, newer versions use also the new logo.

syrious1 04/28/2011 4:41 PM

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very remennicent of a "Simon Says" Green, Green, Blue, Green, Blue, Red, Yellow!

Anonymous 04/28/2011 4:59 PM

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You know Google, if Microsoft followed the same format with their logo it would collectively be termed "a swastika" - something you should think about. It also looks like crap.

megamanx00 04/28/2011 5:11 PM

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I like the old logo better. I suppose Google is trying to better promote it's roots in the chromium project

malphas 04/28/2011 5:17 PM

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Both logos are horrible. The old one is typical web 2.0 style "shiny" 2005 style, and the new one is pathetic and unoriginal, just jumping on the next trend of flattened out matte looking logos.

Shez 04/28/2011 5:32 PM

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i always liked the 'shiny' logo. it always reminded me of a web-browser that you'd find while playing Portal