[Beta Channel] Google Chrome 7.0.xxx.xx (for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

By +Frank B.
in Back Page News

 Share

Recommended Posts

Grand Master

+Frank B. Subscriber²

Posted
  • Subscriber²
Posted

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 7.0.517.0 for Windows, Linux, and ChromeFrame.

Update: 7.0.517.5 has been release for all platforms including Mac (new feature for Mac inline in the blog post).

All

  • about:labs (Issue: 53399)
  • Fewer wstrings in the bookmark code!
  • Problems visiting http://localhost in various network configurations should be resolved (Issues: 42058, 49024, 32522).

Windows

  • See All

Mac

  • Support for Services (Issue 20868)
  • Support for AppleScript (Issue 27468)
  • Find bar and fullscreen overlay are now drawn correctly on top of plugins that use the CoreAnimation drawing model (Issue 44087)
  • Remove superfluous Console logging (Issue 26621)

Linux

  • [r58011] [phajdan.jr@chromium.org] [OS-LINUX] Issue 29333 - use_system_xml causes many sites to fail to load
  • Remove libxml hack that is not needed after we rolled in the WebKit fix (Issue: 29333)
  • [r58449] Fix default browser selection on KDE 4 on many RPM-based distributions. (Issue 33842)

Known Issues

  • Certain actions on YouTube fail, such as "Like" (Issue: 54424)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log 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

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Direct download link for the Windows version

Grand Master

Jamushroom Veteran

Posted
  • Veteran
Posted

Opened up Chrome and I noticed the new "New Tab" page. Instantly went to Neowin.net to check this thread :p

Thanks for the heads-up Meph! (Y)

Mentor

LightShadow

Posted
Posted

Yes, my complaint about the huge bookmark menus got fixed! Finally, when this comes to Beta/Stable I'll be even happier! :D

And I don't really like the "new" new tab page. As the current 6.0 version has links for History and downloads easily. Now I have to go in the menu when I loved them their and easy to access :/ I don't really like the new UI of it that much anyway.

Mentor

LightShadow

Posted
Posted

^The current "New Tab" page still has the history at the bottom of the page :) The bookmarks menu are still somewhat large imo though.

Better than they were, if you had a bookmark with a huge name, the menu size would adjust and fill lots of the screen!

Grand Master

ToneKnee

Posted
Posted

GPU rendering is back with this update as well, I had the flags enabled but they stopped working, but I noticed when I made a new tab (obviously when Chrome updated) that the font rendering had changed. :D

Grand Master

Jamushroom Veteran

Posted
  • Veteran
Posted

Better than they were, if you had a bookmark with a huge name, the menu size would adjust and fill lots of the screen!

True that. Though I change the names for most bookmarks to a shorter name to make it all a little bit nicer. I usually just dump all random bookmarks in the "Other Bookmarks" menu and have the important ones on the bookmarks bar. So I wasn't really bothered by the long names bug :p

GPU rendering is back with this update as well, I had the flags enabled but they stopped working, but I noticed when I made a new tab (obviously when Chrome updated) that the font rendering had changed. :D

Where does one enable this flag?

Mentor

LightShadow

Posted
Posted

I really wish about:labs had more options, like the tabbed version of options etc. It only offers Side-Tabs which are easy to get by the --tag. They should have all the --tag features under about:labs.

Grand Master

ToneKnee

Posted
Posted

"-enable-accelerated-compositing" is put after chrome.exe in the shortcut target properties.

If not: --enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-video-layering --enable-webgl --enable-fastback

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.