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Flag changed from --direct-write to --enable-direct-write , so try new one.

Its landing bits by bits.. First they will add initial Direct Write support in their Skia library, remove Web Fonts usages... Bits by bits. I am also interested in this support, so I post every changelog related to it in here.. Follow up this thread... :)

Cool, will try the new flag later and I'm always keeping an eye on this thread just for DirectWrite support, lol

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Looks liek the forum ate my last post. anyway, here you go https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/PGPpiQr6bwi

 

You are not the only one suffering from this forum bad eating habits. I several times missed my several stuff recently.

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You are not the only one suffering from this forum bad eating habits. I several times missed my several stuff recently.

the Neowin Admin prolly hasnt applied the latest Bug Patch release  

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I really hope DirectWrite remains an option on Windows 8+ and won't be forced. ClearType is much, much better for displays without high DPI that don't rotate since it uses subpixel AA while DirectWrite on 8 and up uses grayscale AA.

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That was actually the content of my quote but I would not do that in your main browser. Disabling the sandbox is quite dangerous.

but it was not telling how to enable subpixel font rendering which is behind enable experimental platform features. Never mind...

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Another update (following up from comment #109):

 
--enable-direct-write now turns on subpixel font scaling, so no need to use the --enable-experimental-web-platform-features flag.

 

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

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whats Newish in Version 34? 

 

More working on Direct Write support.. No usual changes on the UI part right now... New Translate UX work in progress... Some more standard fixing and going forward in general...

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For those of you who haven't seen it yet: This is what the Chrome 32 modern UI version on Windows 8.x looks like:

 

chromemetro.png

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Anyone else having an issue where the browser is sluggish since the update to  34.0.1797.2 dev-m? At first I thought it was my connection, but it is running as fast as usual, cleared the history and am in the process of disabling the very few extensions I use 

 

Well damn, seems to be Adblock causing issues on sites, even like here and it's whitelisted

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Anyone else having an issue where the browser is sluggish since the update to  34.0.1797.2 dev-m? At first I thought it was my connection, but it is running as fast as usual, cleared the history and am in the process of disabling the very few extensions I use 

Yea. I've noticed that as well. Its getting kind of annoying.

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Anyone else having an issue where the browser is sluggish since the update to  34.0.1797.2 dev-m? At first I thought it was my connection, but it is running as fast as usual, cleared the history and am in the process of disabling the very few extensions I use 

 

Well damn, seems to be Adblock causing issues on sites, even like here and it's whitelisted

yeah i found it very sloppy so iv'e gone back to Firefox

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Yea. I've noticed that as well. Its getting kind of annoying.

 

Had to completely disable any adblocking extension, both that I tried slowed it down, I'll try again after the next update

 

I really like the Google Now option on my desktop

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Chrome gonna bring back old school scrollbar style in M34 if they not back ported the patches:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=333499

 

 

 

Changes look for scrollbars on windows (2) Additionally respects the size from the OS. BUG=333499 332937 TEST=none R=jam@chromium.org, sadrul@chromium.org TBR=sadrul@chromium.org 

https://codereview.chromium.org/143953007

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It seems the latest canary chrome has fixed what ever issue was causing the major perf regressions seen in the not-canary builds

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