updates Meet the browser: Chrome Next

[.stan]

DirectWrite is now on by default.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

DirectWrite is now on by default.

 

on Chrome 37...  :)

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Google PDF Renderer Open Sourced now: https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/

 

Rather than from Adobe it was actually from Foxit.

 

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/7433-google-open-sources-pdf-software-library.html

 

 

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New Collect Errors Option for extension under Developer Mode:

 

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Also Chrome is removing GTK theme code in favour of Aura on Linux. If you face it broken, you can guess it is gone now.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

New Password Manager option on per site.. Easy to manage if you have multiple accounts on one site..

 

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

Latest Dev build i notice a lot now when i am moving from tab to tab the tab contents will be blank for a second or two before loading in.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

M38 development started.

Chromium 32-bit development shifted to now Git, now unlike previously there is no proper changelog in text format in snapshot folders and snapshots also appear randomly. I shifted my default Chromium 64-bit which does not yet suffered similar fate.

[trag3dy]

Maybe I just missed it but why did they disable smooth scrolling?

[ViperAFK]

Maybe I just missed it but why did they disable smooth scrolling?

Are you talking about the smooth scrolling flag in about:flags? If so, that's been disabled for a while now, and they disabled it because it doesn't work with threaded compositing.

[trag3dy]

Are you talking about the smooth scrolling flag in about:flags? If so, that's been disabled for a while now, and they disabled it because it doesn't work with threaded compositing.

 

That's what I was referring to yes. So I guess I did miss something.

[BooBerry]

 

 278939

 

 

 Precache policy-for-extensions for device-local accounts. This change makes into the build

[BooBerry]

Google Chrome Users to Be Able to Launch Video Hangouts Without Plugins

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Dart (Google in house replacement for Javascript) is now ECMA standard.

 

PDF: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-408.pdf

[Boo Berry]

I'm wondering if Google gave the devs a vacation, hence the lack of new Chromium builds for the last week.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I'm wondering if Google gave the devs a vacation, hence the lack of new Chromium builds for the last week.

 

Yeah, 64-bit builds are no longer happening, I asked them on chromium-discuss google group but no response so far.

For 32-bit builds, they shifted to Git which does not provide simple xml format changelogs.

 

To get latest 32-bit build:

- Move to end (use END button from Keyboard)

- Read LAST_CHANGE file in new tab and copy paste string

- Go back to 32-bit snapshots tab and press F3 or Ctrl+F and find string matching folder

 

It will be latest... I found latest through this... I uninstalled 64-bit (I went to them after they switched to Git but they are no longer maintaining them on that branch IMO).

[Boo Berry]

Looks like they only shifted the 32-bit snapshot builds and not the continuous builds. Gotta wait, I guess. Unless they start offering Win64 snapshots.

[.stan]

Why are you guys even using the Chromium builds? Chrome Canary happens often enough to test everything, imo. :O

[Boo Berry]

Why are you guys even using the Chromium builds? Chrome Canary happens often enough to test everything, imo. :o

I like using Chromium.

[.stan]

I like using Chromium.

Yeah but why?

[Boo Berry]

Because it's the open-source browser Chrome is based on and I like to use it separately from Chrome.

[ToneKnee]

Can anyone get Chrome x64 to work with Hyper-V enabled?  I haven't tested without Hyper-V yet but everytime I start Chrome x64 it crashes straight away and I suspect Hyper-V is the reason.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Can anyone get Chrome x64 to work with Hyper-V enabled?  I haven't tested without Hyper-V yet but everytime I start Chrome x64 it crashes straight away and I suspect Hyper-V is the reason.

Does this reveal any hyper-v relevant .dll? or any crash id?

 

chrome://crashes/

 

chrome://conflicts/  

[ViperAFK]

Looks like smooth scrolling is finally coming back, they've got a new impl-side implementation:

 

The following revision refers to this bug:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/749cbc62498edd705dba6138f924a82c75274c88

commit 749cbc62498edd705dba6138f924a82c75274c88
Author: skobes@chromium.org <skobes@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>
Date: Thu Jul 10 01:06:35 2014

Impl thread smooth scrolling.

This is a first pass at smooth scrolling on the compositor thread. It adds LayerTreeHostImpl::ScrollAnimated, which kicks off a scroll offset animation through the layer animation controller.

When the --enable-smooth-scrolling flag is present, InputHandlerProxy will call ScrollAnimated for composited wheel scrolls.

Once this is in the next steps are:

(1) Update the animation curve to aim at a new target when a wheel event comes in while a scroll animation is in progress. (For now we just drop the event.)

(2) Unify the behavior with WebCore::ScrollAnimatorNone. We should be able to share a lot of logic since cc::ScrollOffsetAnimationCurve is already exposed to Blink through compositor bindings (for http://crbug.com/243871).

BUG=575

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/361143002

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@282205 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Looks like smooth scrolling is finally coming back, they've got a new impl-side implementation:

 

I really hate new Chromium Git shift and no update to 64-bit continuous builds... Since I can't read changelogs now...

[ViperAFK]

heh, yeah I only noticed that because I was subscribed to that bug

[Boo Berry]

I really hate new Chromium Git shift and no update to 64-bit continuous builds... Since I can't read changelogs now...

No kidding and there's been nothing mentioned about it too.