Google finally has released a beta version of Chrome for Android after years of waiting but it's only available for users with the latest Android system, Ice Cream Sandwich.

The new Chrome browser is available for free to download in the Android Market so that users can enjoy the speed and customization of Google's browser without waiting for handset makers to offer it through an operating system upgrade. Unfortunately the browser requires newer hardware acceleration interfaces so it can only work on devices running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which right now only includes three devices: Samsung's Galaxy Nexus, Asus Transformer Prime and Motorola's Xoom.

If you're lucky enough to have Ice Cream Sandwich on your Android device then you can experience Chrome's gesture-based controls, syncing feature with the desktop version of the browser, and customization features that many fans of Chrome are familiar with.

"Like the desktop version, Chrome for Android Beta is focused on speed and simplicity, but it also features seamless sign-in and sync so you can take your personalized web browsing experience with you wherever you go, across devices," Google said in a blog post.

The mobile version for Chrome will also incorporate support for the latest HTML 5 features. Users can also access tabs that were left open in their desktops using Chrome's syncing feature as well as their bookmarks and auto-complete suggestions for often visited sites.

"With hardware-accelerated canvas, overflow scroll support, strong HTML5 video support, and new capabilities such as Indexed DB, WebWorkers and Web Sockets, Chrome for Android is a solid platform for developing web content on mobile device," Arnaud Weber, a Chrome engineering manager, said in another post.

One thing the mobile version of Chrome will not have is Adobe Flash. Adobe has issued a statement confirming that Chrome will not support Flash content. Adobe isn't planning to work with Google to add Flash support for Chrome but default Android browser will support Flash.

"Today Google introduced Chrome for Android Beta. As we announced last November, Adobe is no longer developing Flash Player for mobile browsers, and thus Chrome for Android Beta does not support Flash content," wrote Adobe's Flash Platform product manager Bill Howard.

Adobe has released a plugin of Flash Player 11.1 last December for Android but it was the last version of Adobe's mobile browser plugin as Adobe decided to stop development of Flash Player for mobile devices. Adobe has struggled to provide the same support for Flash players for mobile devices but the company has stalled. Flash Player worked well on Android but other platforms had trouble with the plugin. Apple refused to allow the Flash plugin on iOS. Adobe has announced that it would no longer support Flash on new platforms and would instead develop tools for deploying Flash content as native mobile applications.