The next major iteration of Google Chrome has been elevated to Beta and has now been made available for the purposes of downloading and testing.

It has been less than a week since search engine giant Google, released the latest developer preview of the successor to the Chrome 5.0. The company has signed off the first Beta development milestone of the solution and is now releasing the bits to early adopters.

Google Chrome 6.0 Beta brings to the table a variety of bug fixes. The solution also delivers a slew of improvements such as more horsepower improved stability, a graphical user interface redesign and other new features.

Here are the necessary download links for Chrome 6.0 Beta:

For Windows:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Google-Chrome.shtml

For Mac

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Google-Chrome.shtml

As it often does, the company once again focused on elevating the open source browser's performance up a notch. In terms of applauding improvements in speed incorporated into Chrome 6.0 Beta, the Mountain View-based company is focusing on touting advances related to the browser's JavaScript engine.

"Our new beta release continues to be faster than before," said James Hawkins, Google Chrome Software Engineer.

Information released by Google claims that the Chrome 6.0 Beta is at least 15% faster than the Chrome 5.0 Beta on the V8 benchmark. The company also claims that the latest Beta Build delivers a 15% performance improvement on the SunSpider benchmark. This is in comparison to the Beta for the previous version of Chrome.

"Additionally, we've improved by 64% on Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests," Hawkins said.

In its blog, Google stays away from proclaiming the Chrome as the fastest browser on the market. This is a deviation from other browser manufacturers, who are not shy making such hefty declarations. When Opera 10.5 was released in March, it was proclaimed as the fastest Web browser available. Later on, Apple disputed the claim and said that Safari 4 owned the distinction. This claim was later proven false by benchmark tests. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, which is often the slowest browser, was remarkable, beating every other competitor in HTML5 tests (Chrome scored a distant last).

Chrome 6.0 Beta also comes with a different look to its user interface. The new, small UI redesign details may already be familiar to early adopters and developers that have already been playing with the Dev channel releases of Chrome 6.0.

In addition to the design touchups, the UI optimizations of the browser have been focused on streamlining the upper toolbar. The improvement is meant to deliver a better UX for the Omnibox. In addition, the improvements better centralizes the browser's options into a single menu.

Chrome 6.0 Beta also offers new features, not the least of which is Autofill and enhanced synchronization capabilities.

"Autofill, helps you fill in web forms automatically with information that you specify, such as your name, address, phone number, and the credit card number you use for shopping online," said Hawkins.

"Autofill builds up and saves this information for you over time, so that you can fill in long web forms with just a few clicks without typing in the same information over again," he added.

"In addition to syncing bookmarks, preferences, and themes, you can now choose to sync your Chrome extensions as well as your Autofill data (excluding credit card numbers) through your Google Account," he said.

Google has been releasing Chrome updates faster than users can keep up. In a blog post, which is entitled "Release Early, Release Often" the company said that "running under ideal conditions, we will be looking to release a new stable version about once every six weeks, roughly twice as often as we do today." The updates are based on the idea that since Google creates new features so quickly, it wants every user to get a fast and updated copy of the browser as soon as possible.