Chrome Releases: January 2010

Dev Channel Update

Friday, January 29, 2010

The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.307.1 for Windows & MacWindows

[r37023] Use default downloads directory on Vista and Windows 7 (except where it is the desktop) (Issue: 13610)

[r36938 and others] Start work on Content Settings window and sub-dialogs (Issue: 32719)

Mac

Improved plugin stability.

[r37204][r37210] Cocoa NPAPI plugins will now get NPCocoaEventMouseDragged and NPCocoaEventFlagsChanged events (Issues: 32996, 31846)

[r37010] Fix crash that sometimes happened when dragging tabs (Issue: 29906)

[r37004] Fix %cpu in task manager. (Issue: 32464)

[r37139] Give the cookies manager a search field. (Issue: 32328)

[r37247] Make copying of big images more robust (Issue: 26822)

[r37114] Improve task manager resizing behavior (Issues: 33134, 33133)

Known Issues

[Mac] Crash when deleting cookies (Issue: 33533).

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revision.

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
Orit Mazor
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Monday, January 25, 2010

The stable channel has been updated to 4.0.249.78 for Windows, and includes the following features and security fixes (since 3.0):

Extensions

Bookmark sync

Enhanced developer tools

HTML5: Notifications, Web Database, Local Storage, WebSockets, Ruby support

v8 performance improvements

Skia performance improvements

Full ACID3 pass, due to re-enabled remote font support (with added defense against bugs in operating system font libraries)

HTTP byte range support

New security feature: "Strict Transport Security" support

Experimental new anti-reflected-XSS feature called "XSS Auditor"

Security Fixes:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

[3275] Low Pop-up blocker bypass. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).

[9877] Medium Cross-domain theft due to CSS design error. Credit to Chris Evans of the Google Security Team.

[12523] Medium Browser memory error with stale pop-up block menu. Credit to Jacob Balle and Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

[20450] Low Prevent XHR to directories. Credit to the Chromium development community.

[23693] Low Escape more characters in shortcuts. Credit to Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team and, independently, Inferno of SecureThoughts.com.

[8864] [24701] [24646] High Renderer memory errors drawing on canvases. Credit to Michal Zalewski of the Google Security Team and Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).

[28566] High Image decoding memory error. Credit to Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team.

[29920] Low Corner case failure to strip Referer. Credit to the Chromium development community.

[30660] High Cross-domain access error. Credit to Tokuji Akamine, Senior Consultant at Symantec Consulting Services.

[31307] High Bitmap deserialization error. Credit to Mark Dowd, under contract to Google Chrome Security Team.

[31517] Low Browser crash with nested URL.

Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome Program Manager

Dev Channel Update

Friday, January 22, 2010

Update: Windows has been updated to 302.3 to fix the crashes related to issue 32648 on Windows XP.

The dev channel has been updated to 4.0.302.2 for Windows, Mac, and Linux

All

[r36632] We now only use our own FTP parsing code; please file bugs if you encounter any problems while navigating FTP sites. (Issue: 25520)

Windows

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Mac

[r35949, r36195, r36432, r36437, r36562, r36582] Various improvements to the bookmark manager.

[r35959] Fix mis-sized download shelf close button. (Issue: 31785)

[r35977, r36087, r36088, r36096, r36557] Enable the task manager. (Issue: 13156)

[r36016] Support pinch to zoom on the Mac. (Issue: 16305)

[r36021] Implements context menus for Page and Browser Actions. (Issue: 30655)

[r36124] Eliminate Helper zombies. (Issue: 32001)

[r36242] Quake Live Plugin will now load. (Issue: 24788)

[r36259, r36370] Fix issues with browser action popups. (Issues: 32161, 31097, 32162)

[r36416, r36533, r36554] Support plugin cursors, and fix cursor flicker with fullscreen plugins. (Issue: 20717)

[r36422] Improve scroll performance on some sites, e.g. http://www.starcraft2.com/faq.xml (Issues: 502056, 28954)

[r36182] Controls in QuickTime content now work. (Issue: 24952)

[r36361] Double-clicking a plugin will no longer select it. (Issue: 31358)

Linux

[r36423] Theme the NTP with GTK+ colors when matching GTK. (Issue: 29948)

[r36073] Fix to way we identify the active window. (Issue: 31971)

Known Issues

[OS-WIN] The translate extension causes webpages to crash in Chrome, this issue has been fixed on trunk, and will be resolved in the next Dev channel release. (Issue 32648)

[OS-MAC] Cookie manager crashes (Issue 32596, 32627)

[OS-MAC] Bookmark manager crashes (Issue 32733, 32732)

[OS-MAC] Sporadic flash plugin crashes (Issue 32748, 32732)

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, January 21, 2010

The Beta channel has been updated to 4.0.249.78 for Windows.

This release contains the following changes:

[r36079] Updated UI translations.
[r36694] A crash which occurred, on Windows XP, when the translation extension was installed. (Issue: 32648)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome Program Manager

Google Chrome Frame Update

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Google Chrome Frame has been updated to version 4.0.295.0. All users should be updated automatically.

This release fixes several of the most common crashes and the following issues:

Network related fixes (Issue: 30149, 30203, 30355)
Enable UMA data upload in ChromeFrame (Issue: 30508)
Authorization headers set using XHR with ChromeFrame were stripped in the outgoing HTTP (Issue: 23103)
CF Full Mode display webpage when "Open link in new window" opened in ChromeFrame via the Open in New window operation (Issue: 30013)
Delete cookies with JavaScript and chromeframe (Issue: 30786, 30786)

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.

--Orit Mazor, Google Chrome Team

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.295.0 for All platforms

All Platforms

See full list

Windows

[r35634] [OS-WIN7] Issue 30414 - Win7 - Add profile info to app id associated with shortcuts and window
Append profile info to win7 app id per issue 30414 (Issue: 30414)
[r35807] "Don't show "Did you mean" infobars on single-word searches for users whose ISP or DNS provider displays custom error pages for nonexistent hostnames." (Issue: 31556)

Mac

Several crash fixes.
[r35546 , r35826] Add a rudimentary bookmark manager (Issue: 13149, 31844)
[r35678] Fix stuck hover states on tab close buttons (Issue: 31279)
[r35576] Make devtools window dockable. (Issue: 17368)
[r35512] Implement the cookie manager (Issue: 15360)
[r35440] Cmd-three finger swipe opens prev/next page in new tab. (Issue: 29804)

Linux

[r35441] We no longer show "exe" in process listings for helper processes. (Issue: 29118)
[r35536] Work around LAHF crash bug in Flash. (Issue: 29789)

Known issues:

- [OS-MAC] Bookmark manager for Mac is not finished yet. No need to file bugs at this point. (Implemented so far: moving, deleting and renaming bookmarks; drag/drop and copy/paste to and from Safari; creating folders.)

- [OS-MAC] Close button on download shelf is semi-visible (Issue: 31785)

- [OS-MAC] A few crashes within the Inspector (Issue: 32035, 32037, 32066, 32002)

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.

Orit Mazor, Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Beta channel has been updated to 4.0.249.64 for Windows.

This release adds additional functionality to extensions:

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome Program Manager

Dev Channel Update

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.288.1 for Linux, Mac, and Windows
All Platforms

[r33999] Fixed an issue which caused html5 audio/video content to not load. (Issue: 25859)

[r34122] Fixed a bug where content scripts would get run twice in some cases. (Issue: 29644)

Windows

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Mac

IMPORTANT: Use this build to switch back to the Dev channel. If you were running Chrome Dev builds before you must manually install this build to get back on the Dev channel. Previous 4.0.249.x builds are on the Beta channel and will not auto update to new Dev channel releases.

Extensions are enabled

Bookmark sync is enabled. Please note issue 31015 below.

[r34585] Add Learn more link to "Aw Snap" crash page. (Issue: 27212)

[r34942] Add Esc as another keyboard shortcut for "stop page load." (Issue: 20916)

[r 34757] Don't show location bar in devtools and other popup windows. (Issues: 13148, 20244, 26757, 29103)

[r34762] Implement "Pin Tab" tab context menu item

Linux

Scrollbars in GTK theme mode now use some of the GTK colors.

[r34915] Fix a hang on many sites using custom fonts. (Issue: 29861)

[r34222] OOM killer should now kill runaway tabs before it kills the browser. (Issue: 29752)

[r34234] Accelerator tweaks: in particular, GTK-configured Emacs keybindings in web content should now work. (Issues: 26131, 26054, 28839, 24479)

[r35390] New optimized drawing path -- please let us know about any new drawing glitches! (Issue: 31301)

Many bugs fixed particularly around extension handling.

Known Issues

Issue 31015 [OS-MAC] Crash on adding new folder when bookmarks sync is enabled

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 LaforgeGoogle Chrome Program Manager

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