The Google Chrome team introduced a new beta feature to help users navigate the multilingual web: instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins.

How does it work? When the language of the webpage you're viewing is different from your preferred language setting, Chrome will display a prompt asking if you'd like the page to be translated for you using Google Translate.

With today's beta release, Google also introduced new privacy features.

In addition to Chrome's existing incognito mode ? a handy way to browse the web without leaving traces of website visits on your computer or downloads in your browser history ? you can now manage your privacy settings in the new "Privacy" section of Chrome's Options dialog. From these settings, you can control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites.

You can read more about these features here.

The Beta release can be downloaded here