UPDATE: 2009-09-22 - 4.0.211.7 is being pushed to Windows.  It contains 2 fixes, the first resolves the issue which prevented large downloads and the second is a stability fix which should resolve a number of crashes (bug 22135). Thank you for you again for your patience.


UPDATE: 2009-09-19 - 4.0.211.4 is being pushed to Windows and resolves this issues with bookmark synchronization. Thank you for your patience.

UPDATE: THIS RELEASE HAS BEEN HALTED DUE TO A CRASHING ERROR WITH --enable-sync.


This week's changes for the dev channel, 4.0.211.2, is being released to all platforms.

  • All
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  • Win
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    • Ensure that tips change when the Chrome language changes. [r25834]
  • Mac
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    • Import from Firefox no longer hangs. [r25174]
    • Added SSL icons. [r26307]
    • Implement the search engine manager. [r26078]
    • Allow windows with a single tab to be merged into other windows with drag and drop.
    • Allow Snow Leopard systems to connect to certain IPv6-enabled web sites when only IPv4 is available. [r26051]
    • Prevent a sad tab when loading certain images on Snow Leopard. [r26089]
    • Don't show "Google Chrome did not shut down properly" when quit from the Dock, logout, restart, or shut down. [r26269]

  • Linux:
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    • Make the bookmark toolbar folders act like a menu bar. [r25677]
    • Bookmark bar shows a menu on too many bookmarks. [r25200]
    • Implement external protocol handler dialog (e.g. for aim: URLs).[r25373]
    • Extensions can register page actions. [r25934]
    • Fix a crash when closing tabs that have open login prompts. [r26066]
    • Work around a Flash crash that mostly affects Gentoo users. [r26265]

  • Extensions
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    • Enable/disable extension button on chrome://extensions
    • Update extensions now button to force autoupdate check on chrome://extensions
    • chrome.window and chrome.tab APIs can now reference relative URLs inside an extension

Known issues:

  • All
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    • Large files do not download completely - bug 406
  • Linux:
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    • Cannot be set as the default browser in GNOME (Already fixed by [r26314, r26316]).


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 Program Manage