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Dev Channel Update: 2.0.171.0
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.171.0. Most of the focus this week has been on usability and stability fixes. However, there are some new features available from command line switches.
Features:
New FTP implementation: use --new-ftp
Experimental Bookmark Menu: use --bookmark-menu
Web Workers: use --enable-web-workers
Implement SSL renegotiation. (Issue: 6893)
Pressing the Del key while a item is selected in the form suggestion popup deletes that suggestion from
the DB.
WebKit version 530.4
V8 version 1.1.1.4
Fixes:
Add command line switch "--new-ftp" for new portable FTP (Issue: 4965)
Add the directory listing code for the new portable FTP (Issue: 4965)
SSL improvements. (Issue: 8706)
Fix excessive CPU when scrolling Flash. (Issue: 8653)
Fix crash on showing info bubble. (Issue: 8854)
Aligning text to the right, especially RTL languages. (Issue: 1845)
Fix dragging a Chrome window which has a single tab by the tab itself. (Issues: 2827, 8287)
Do correct hit testing for context menu items. (Issue: 8100)
Add support for progressive JPEGs with MIME type image/pjpeg. (Issue: 2104)
Known Issues:
Issue 8892: Browser crash with closing about:network window.
Issue 8732: Provide a scroll bar for about:network dialog
Issue 8767: Can create multiple Downloads tabs from Download shelf
Issue 8220: No more status spinning in Downloads page
Issue 8637: Unable to drag window when one browser window open with single tab
Issue 8827: Import browsring history shows today's history only in the history page.
Issue 8822: Tab crashes with debugger !
Issue 8821: Inspector is broken, shows empty elements
Issue 8372: Background paint issues with Task manager/B'Manager in maximized mode
Issue 8587: Regression: Encoding auto-detect doesn't work any more
Issue 8517: tabbing should work on a SSL interstitial page
The detailed
list of all revisions
is also available.
Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at
http://dev.chromium.org/
getting-involved/dev-channel
.
Please report bugs at
http://code.google.com/p/
chromium/issues/list
.
Jonathan Conradt
Engineering Program Manager
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