Chrome Releases
Release updates from the Chrome team
Dev Channel Updated with Fixes and Extension Changes
Thursday, October 22, 2009
This week Printing and the Quicktime plugin make their initial appearance on Chrome for Mac. Lots of important Extensions changes and quite a few bugs are also fixed.
Be sure to read the Known Issues if you are running Chrome for Mac.
All Platforms:
CSS rounded corners are now antialiased on Windows and Linux. (They were already on Mac.)
Mac:
Printing now works. (Issue:
13158
)
[
r28871
] Autoupdates no longer cause problems if Chrome is already running. (Issue:
14610
)
[
r29388
] Hitting backspace while IME is active does no longer go back in history. (Issue:
25000
)
[
r28837
] QuickTime plugin no longer crashes, and often displays properly (though there are still bugs to be ironed out).
[
r28837
] Plugin whitelist has been removed, so that Chrome will attempt to load all NPAPI plugins. Expect more plugin crashes.
[
r29396
] Ctrl-tab switches tabs again. (Issue:
24921
)
[
r29458
] Cmd-` switches windows again. (Issue:
24817
)
Linux:
Minor visual polish (e.g. horizontal scrollbars show the proper grippy, omnibox highlighting fix).
[
r28834
] Crea
te application shortcuts now works on Fedora 11. (Issue:
22966
)
[
r28869
] Browser actions (extension buttons in toolbar) partly implemented. (Issue:
23882
)
[
r29102
] Omnibox auto-complete popup stacks properly below SCIM IME candidate window. (Issue:
19082
)
[
r29261
] Ctrl+F etc. no longer type other letters into edit boxes in non-English keyboard setups. (Issues:
10846
,
2215
,
21471
)
Chrome Frame:
Fixes persistent
IE 8 crashes. (Issue:
22768
)
Fixed crashes when navigating with Web Inspector open. (Issue:
22993
)
Fixes spurious errors when re-installing Chrome
Frame
. (Issue:
23444
)
Fixes a crash in comctl32.dll, triggered by Google Wave. (Issue:
24115
)
Fixes empty referrer issue for initial link navigations. (Issue:
22994
)
Preview support for accessibility via MSAA, including ARIA role and state information. (Issues
23669
, others)
Improved keyboard and accelerator handling.
IE text-size menu items now change text size in Chrome
Frame
.
Navigating to a site marked as restricted is now disabled in Chrome
Frame
. Chrome
frame
now updates the zone UI on the task bar.
Chrome
Frame
will now work for all other users on the machine, not just the user who installs it. (Issue:
23989
)
Fixes for SSL certificate error issue.
Disables sending 'chromeframe' in the User-Agent if the Chrome
Frame
addon is disabled. (Issue:
22760
)
Disables the 'Chrome has crashed - Restart?' message box.
Limited support for JavaScript history object for back/forward from content.
Extensions:
[
r29068
] *Breaking Change* Finalize browser actions API (Issue:
23879
)
[
r29284
] *Breaking Change* Only one browser action or one page actions is now allowed per-extension. We are experimenting with the idea of a direct correspondence between extensions and visible UI features. We think this may improve managability. (Issue:
24473
)
[
r29335
] Update page actions API to improve usability. Old API still supported. (Issue:
24635
)
[
r29495
] Browser actions and page actions: Add chrome.browserAction.setIcon({
path:...}). No longer need to prespecify images in manifest. (Issue:
22575
)
[
r29297
] Add an options_page to the manifest. (Issue:
23801
)
[
r29365
] You can now use (slightly) bigger icons in browser actions and page actions. Up to 19px square are now allowed (up from 16px). (Issue:
24881
)
[
r29046
] Fix extension canceling. (Issue:
23405
)
[
r29143
] Browser action button disappears when loading a new extension. (Issue:
23593
)
Known issues:
Mac: If an older version of Chrome is running when this version is automatically installed the running version will not quit cleanly and will spike the CPU at 100%. It will be necessary to Force Quit the application. Use Cmd-Option-Escape to open the Force Quit dialog.
Mac: Cmd-opt-left/right navigate history instead of switching tabs (Issue:
25396
). Use cmd-{/} as workaround.
Linux: Some fonts may look blurry or extra bold. (Issue:
25365
)
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/
ch
romium/issues/entry
.
Jonathan Conradt
Engineering Program Manager
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