By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
Google isn’t above killing a little productivity to prove the power of its web browser. The search engine king has released a special free Y1 Game browser-based version of Rovio’s avian-flinging sensation Angry Birds on the Chrome Web
Store, just to prove it can be done.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Announced earlier today at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco, the new browser-based version of Angry Birds is a testament to how far Google’s Chrome browser has come in a short time. According to Sundar
Pichai, Google’s senior vice president of Chrome, Angry Birds in a web browser wouldn’t have been possible a year all yono app
ago. With a graphics rendering speed ten-times-faster than earlier versions, today’s Chrome can make it happen.
As can, incidentally, today’s version of Safari. Today’s version of Firefox, on the other hand, was a bust. No one uses Internet Explorer anymore, so we didn’t even bother. The free version of Angry Birds features the game’s first level, Poached Eggs, along with a set of exclusive Chrome-themed levels. You can install it now via the Chrome Web Store. It runs rather nicely, and as an added bonus, remains cached for offline play. Now if you’ll yono all rummy excuse me, I’ve got pigs to kill. Angry Birds flutters over to Chrome [VentureBeat]