smashguy Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Google Chrome has been updated to 2.0.180.0 on the dev channel. Version Changes: WebKit 530.9 V8 1.2.2.1 Visible changes: [r14827] Support PgUp/PgDn in Omnibox for "first entry/last entry." (Issue: 6857) [r15115] Tell the user if Chrome is not the default browser. (Issue: 9049) [r15702] You can choose to allow pop-ups from a site. (Issue: 11440) Other changes of note: [r14891] Fix for crashing when zoomed into street level on maps.yahoo.com (Issue: 2044) [r14731] Patch from Mohamed Mansour for systems without an installed printer. (Issue: 6835) [r15020] Stop the location bar from flashing white when navigating from one HTTPS site to another. (Issue: 11157) [r15214] Fix for common issues around opening a new window. (Issues: 6377, 6192, 835) Lots of work around Extensions. (See r15417, r15271, r15310) The release notes are available as well as a detailed list of all revisions. You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry. --Jonathan Conradt Google Chrome Program Manager Download: Google Chrome 2.0.180.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Thanks for the update notice. I wish Google Chrome made getting updates a little bit more discoverable. As it is, you have to go to "About Google Chrome" and do it through there. Why can't there be a "Check For Updates..." directly in the menu, just like Firefox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:: Lyon :: Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I wish Google Chrome made getting updates a little bit more discoverable. As it is, you have to go to "About Google Chrome" and do it through there. Why can't there be a "Check For Updates..." directly in the menu, just like Firefox? Err... what's wrong with accessing it with just one more click? O_o it's not that hard and I think Google Chrome is meant to be auto-update which is probably why they don't put it on the main Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I noticed in this update that the top bar is now black, I prefer the previous blue color, it matched the windows xp theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zulugod Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Thanks for the update. Will give this a spin tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagjohn Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 bookmark bar is a bit different. Looks good though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmb219 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 bookmark bar is a bit different. Looks good though. Yea, that's a nice change, first mod to the interface in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Yeah, as much as I like black, I don't think I really care for the top bar being black when maximized. Maybe a darker shade of blue, sort of like the incognito mode would work, but it's too dark, I feel. Too much contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L0u1s Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 lol, I thought the black upper bar was a bug... (Still hope it is) I don't like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
registradus Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 what do you mean by black upper bar? can someone post screenshots? is it vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L0u1s Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted May 13, 2009 Member Share Posted May 13, 2009 In win7 the top bar is glass transparent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey_snake Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 this is a beta, fyi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 if its a beta please label topic with "beta" in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 In win7 the top bar is glass transparent If Aero is enabled. If not, then it seems the bar has been changed from blue to black, which I prefer and makes more sense in terms of the rest of the GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 If Aero is enabled. If not, then it seems the bar has been changed from blue to black, which I prefer and makes more sense in terms of the rest of the GUI. If you are in XP, the black does not work well with the default blue theme in XP. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scirwode Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 If you are in XP, the black does not work well with the default blue theme in XP. :rolleyes: Indeed, it looks hideous for that matter. And here I thought it was a bug. Scirwode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayayess1190 Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10240057-12.html Chrome extensions draw near, but advanced HTML 5 features recedeby Stephen Shankland A new developer version of Chrome takes some significant strides to adding the top-requested feature--the ability to accommodate extensions that customize what Google's browser can do--but programmers also pushed back support for a collection of significant advanced Web features. Google Chrome 2.0.180.0 emerged Tuesday night for people willing to try the developer preview version. The new version installs some of the plumbing necessary to support the feature, according to the release notes. "The extensions posse would like to point out that as of today's dev channel release, extensions are starting to be a bit more useful. We can now put little bits of UI (user interface) in the chrome of Chrome, and some of the APIs (application programming interfaces) are starting to come together," said Google programmer Aaron Boodman in a mailing list post Tuesday. "There is still quite a ways to go, but if you're interested in building extensions for Chrome, this might be a good time to start taking a look." Extensions are a big advantage Mozilla's Firefox has over rival browsers, not just because the browser supports them but because thousands are available. A lightweight sample Chrome extension shows how many Gmail messages you have. (Credit: Google) Google also updated its extensions how-to page and provided some sample Chrome extensions. To use extensions, people must launch the browser through the command line with the "--enable-extensions" option. Extensions work has begun. Cleeki has a Chrome extension, for example, that lets people select a word and then perform various actions with it such as searching for it without leaving that page. The new version also lets you allow pop-ups from a specific Web site, fixes a few bugs, and upgrades to the latest versions of two major components, WebKit for rendering Web pages and V8 for handling JavaScript. At the same time, though, it looks like more waiting for fans of a handful of new features arriving in HTML 5, the upcoming revision to the Hypertext Markup Language that's used to describe Web pages. Chrome developers had planned support for several HTML 5 features in a forthcoming main incarnation of Chrome, version 2.1, but now they've been pushed back to 3.0. (That's still a ways out: Even version 2.0 has yet to arrive in Google's mainstream "stable" version of Chrome.) The HTML 5 features pushed back include the following: • Local storage, technology for storing information on a person's computer. That's good for using your Web-based e-mail system while offline, storing browser extension preferences, and other more sophisticated aspects of Web usage. • Video support that permits easier embedding of video on Web pages and better integration than is possible with current video technology such as Adobe Systems' Flash. • Web workers, which let a browser perform processing chores in the background. This technology enables more sophisticated Web applications that can get work done without bogging down the user interface. A Chrome programmer noted the change in a terse note Wednesday. "Moving out of Mstone:2.1 (milestone 2.1) as there just isn't enough time to work on this issue," said a Chrome programmer in a status update note about the local storage feature on Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yxz Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 black bar thingie http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11695 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inctye Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 (edited) bookmark bar is a bit different. Looks good though. I knew there was something different about it. Looks more refined than before. And thankfully, they fixed the flash memory leak bug again (broke a few flash sites that I usually visit) after they broke it a builds ago. Each time they update the V8 engine, it gets noticeably faster. All I ask for right now is bring on the extensions. Edit: Apparently Google is already gearing up for extensions. Try some samples made by Google. Edited May 14, 2009 by revreddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiWanToby Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Is this the same as getting chrome 2.0 from http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inctye Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 Is this the same as getting chrome 2.0 from http://www.google.com/landing/chrome/beta/ Well there are three levels of Chrome: Stable (mass public), Beta, and Dev. This thread is specifically the dev build. If you want to give it a spin, which I highly recommend, go here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Canuck Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 The black title bar bug has already been fixed in the latest trunk builds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyLock Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 This is "Google Chrome 2.0.180.1". I really don't like the way they have implemented the Gmail plug in or their other two plugins. They take up way too much space. Th RSS reader should have been built in to the Chrome and not just server as a a link to their Reader webapp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Canuck Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 They're just sample extensions to demo the underlying framework. Keep in mind the Dev channel is essentially Alpha software still. Edit: How did you get 2.0.180.1? The latest Dev build is 180.0. And what is that little Eyeball icon in the Omnibox? I've never seen that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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