Google Chrome's Beta channel has been updated to 2.0.172.23. This release includes about 200 changes pulled in from the releases subsequent to 2.0.172.2.

Some highlights for this release:
  • Lots of UI tweaks, bug, and stability fixes!
  • Added the ability to remove most visited thumbnails from the New Tab page. (Issue: 685)
  • Autocomplete now pulls suggestions from search engines that support the functionality, and retains a history of those searches. For example, if you have searched from wikipedia.org in the past, start typing wikipedia.org in the omnibox, press the Tab key then a search term and suggestions and past searches will appear for Wikipedia. (Issue: 3636)
  • Added a confirmation box when closing the browser with in progress downloads. (Issue: 1028)
  • Added "Reopen closed tab" and create "New Tab" to the context menu on the tab bar. (Issue: 2144)


A detailed list of changes in this release is in the release notes.


Anthony Laforge, PMP
Google Chrome