Chrome Releases

Dev Channel - 2.0.169.1: Install and Update fixed plus a few Bug Fixes and new version of V8

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

This release includes a number of fixes on top of the recent 2.0.169.0 release. For users having trouble installing or updating Google Chrome this release includes a fix! The most common problem seen with installs or updates happens when a users %TMP% directory is pointing at a different hard drive than their C drive.

Noteable changes:

Make the last tab have a right-click menu. Issue 8519
Bring V8 to version 1.0.3.6 (r1458).
Stop history search going on beyond the start of history. Issue 8438, and Issue 8456
Fix black titlebars rendering when toggling DWM when the window is maximized. Issue 8526
Fix horizontal scrolling to not be reversed on tilt wheel mice and old Thinkpads. Issue 8590
Fixes crash in ResizeCorner. Issue 8477
Make Google Chrome windows not hide auto-hide taskbars. Issue 20, and Issue 8410
Fix installer failure when %TMP% not on C:Issue 8505

Known Issues:

Issue 8453: Regression: about:network dialog shows up behind current Google Chrome window
Issue 8399: Bookmarking a page not reflected on history page when open
Issue 8318: "Exit Full Screen" link does nothing
Issue 8372: Background paint issues with Task manager in maximized mode.
Issue 8289: Drag drop of bookmark from IE/FF crashes tab and then loads the page
Issue 8071: Javascript debugger doesn't come up for constrained windows
Issue 8040: Zoom is broken in [New Tab]
Issue 8345: Browser can crash when removing saved passwords
Issue 8653: CPU can go to 100% while scrolling a page using Flash
Issue 8669: Dragging a link/bookmark into tabs may be ignored

Let us know about any new issues you find by filing a bug.

Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

To see all the release notes go to http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes

Jonathan Conradt

Engineering Program Manager

Dev Update: Fixes New Tab/address bar focus

Monday, March 9, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.169.0. This is a minor bugfix release. See the release notes for a complete list of changes. Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

Notable Changes:

Fixed the address bar not getting focus when you open a new tab. You can once again press Ctrl+T and start typing.
Increased the amount we scroll when you use the mousewheel.

Known Issues:

Let us know about any new issues you find by filing a bug.

--Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager

2.0.168.0 has Over 150 Bug Fixes, new version of V8 and WebKit Merges

Friday, March 6, 2009

Udpate: We didn't point out that the 'New window in profile' option has been removed. We want to take this feature back to the drawing board before releasing it. The experimental feature is still available by starting Google Chrome with the --enable-udd-profiles switch.

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.168.0. The highlights for this week:

NTLM auth without automatic logon (Issues 6567, 6824)
Remote Desktop and Vista Theme changes now work nicely
New French and Polish dictionaries
Better support for PAC files and use of V8 to process them (use --proxy-resolver-v8 to try)

Fixes

More improvements to full screen mode
Many crash and stability fixes

Known Issues

Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

To see all the release notes go to http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes

Release Notes:

[r10197]Add support to ProxyService for downloading a PAC script on behalf of the ProxyResolver. A ProxyResolver can select this new behavior by subclassing ProxyResolver with does_fetch = false. A consequence of this change is that proxy resolve requests are maintained in a queue by ProxyService (rather than implicitly in a queue on the PAC thread's message loop). This simplifies cancellation.This solves issue 7461, and is work-in-progress towards {2764, 74}BUG=7461 (Issue: 7461)
[r10240]Update French dictionary files. (Issue: 7745)
[r10284]Updated Polish dictionary from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pl-dict. (Issue: 7745)
[r10294]Fixing 8010: Missing options from Options dlg. (Issue: 8010)
[r10308]We allow Flash to popup windows in response to user gesture messages like WM_LBUTTONUP, etc. However (Issue: 7850)
[r10316]This make accelerators work in interstitial pages. (Issue: 7056)
[r10337]Fix system menu positioning a bit. In Aero glass, the maximized mode menu was going offscreen by one pixel, causing Windows to reposition it strangely. In both frames, the vertical offset below the tabstrip needed a bit of tweaking. (Issue: 7927)
[r10338]Allow JS Debugger shortcut to work in fullscreen mode, since there's no reason not to. (Issue: 8023)
[r10359]Force the browser to restored mode before going fullscreen, since Windows doesn't seem to want to hide the taskbar for maximized windows regardless of their dimensions. (Issue: 7997)
[r10372]Update animations in fullscreen mode to prevent stuck throbbers. (Issue: 8031)
[r10382]Set pan cursor hotspots to center (Issue: 6173)
[r10431]Fix fullscreen mode opacity issues on Aero glass. We need to not extend the glass into the client area at all in fullscreen mode or text over it becomes semitransparent. (Issue: 8066)
[r10456]Fixes Issue 7377: Regression: Omnibox trims URL ending with 0x85 (Issue: 7377)
[r10476]Do not map virtual keycodes (VK_0 - VK_9) to characters when accelerators in the UI. (Issues: 8043, 7444)
[r10502]Makes it so windows opened from links in Windows Live Messenger cause the window to appear instead of being invisible. (Issue: 3126)
[r10565]An attempt at fixing a crasher reported from the field. (Issue: 5549)
[r10585]Issue 7318: Popup Titlebar Appears Under Windows Taskbar (Issue: 7318)
[r10586]A fix for Issue 4400 (or maybe 4222). (Issue: 4400)
[r10631]Fix 8200: Pressing Esc should cancel dialogs, not commit. (Issue: 8200)
[r10636]When we open a popup window from an app window, we used to identify this popup window as an app too. (Issue: 5739)
[r10663]Workaround for webkit change that broke Gears. The fix is to use a V8 (Issue: 8209)
[r10667]Implement the NTLM authentication scheme by porting (Issues: 6567, 6824)
[r10773]Resolve crash when deleting history by preventing the deleter from being called multiple times. We need to add UI to make what's happening clearer to the user, but this gets us over the hump for now. Also change the history page to queue deletions.Allow history search from the new tab page.Make history title inclusion safer (createTextNode changes).Show starred status on history page.BUG=8214,8163,8271,8284 (Issues: 8214, 8284, 8271, 8163)
[r10777]Make it so that dropdown selects don't deactivate the main frame when openedhttp://crbug.com/8247 (Issue: 8247)
[r10787]Fix a crash when installing plugins. (Issue: 8087)
[r10824]Implement the PAC js-binding for "myIpAddress()". (Issue: 2764)
[r10827]Add a command line flag --v8-proxy-resolver, to select the new PAC implementation. (Issues: 2764, 74)
[r10843]Fix error being thrown in isInNet() PAC js. (Issue: 2764)
[r10845]Make Chromium windows not hide auto-hide taskbars. (Issue: 20)
[r10862]Make New Tab Page work correctly in incognito mode (8294) (Issues: 8271, 8282, 8294)
[r10863]* Make the download page focus the input field onload.* Fix spacing between controls (Pause/Cancel).* Help deblock download UI creation (timeout in downloads.html, kMaxDownloads in downloads_ui.cc)* Allow resume for paused downloads (Issues: 8270, 8271, 8130, 8330)
[r10864]Show icons for exe files in download manager. Issue was that the paths were coming in with the wrong slash direction and escaping, which was OK for non-exes, but strangely bad for exes. (Issue: 8327)
[r10887]Update v8 to version 1.0.3.1 containing a fix for a crash bug in new
[r10888]Update V8 again to get a crash fix and a regexp fix.
[r10960]Ensure that we display a sad face for a windowed plugin when the plugin process crashes. This was a regression introduced by creating the plugin parent on the browser UI thread, which remains valid when the plugin process crashes. (Issue: 7673)
[r10962]Fix a crash in chrome.exe caused by the external tab container instance getting destroyed without (Issue: 1688967)

Jonathan Conradt

Engineering Program Manager

Dev Channel - Bug Fixes, WebKit Merges, and Full Screen Mode

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.166.1. The highlights for this week:
New

Preliminary full screen support has been added (UI still in progress).
Turkish and Estonian spell checkers are available.
Additional malware data collection for users opted-in to sending usage statistics and crash reports.
We now perform HTTP authentication over a keep-alive connection.

Fixes

Fixed a regression where it was not possible to drag a tab between two windows.
Fixed issue related to the input method editor (IME) and the distance/ location to the current text area after scrolling.
Double clicking no longer maximizes the window.
Fixed everything listed as Known Issues last week.
The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Known Issues

Download shelf will *not* warn about dangerous .exe files (Issue: 7971).
Windows 7 users will experience issues importing favorites from IE and setting Chrome as the default browser.
Repaint issues on reloaded page after a crash (Issue: 8065).
Javascript debugger doesn't come up for constrained windows (Issue: 8071).
Sad face not displayed after a plugin crash (Issue: 7673).

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.
Anthony Laforge, PMPChrome Program Manager

Dev Update: Bug Fixes

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.164.0. This is a bug fix release. Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.
You might notice 8 Indic languages are now available for the Google Chrome user interface: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya*, Tamil, and Telugu. (*Note: Oriya does not work in Windows XP.) This is just the initial integration of support for these languages. The translations are not complete and haven't been finalized. Please don't file bugs for these languages, yet.
Changes

Fixed the problems with Facebook's sidebar layout.
Fixed last week's 'crash on some Hebrew and Arabic sites' known issue.
Fixed several problems with making Google Chrome the default browser on Windows Vista.
The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Known IssuesJust so you know (and don't have to spend your time filing a bug when you run into these):

After scrolling, input method editor (IME) windows appear far from the current text area. (Issue 7651)
The Web Inspector (right click > Inspect Element) does not work. (Issue 7800)
Issues with commands on pop-up windows: the context menu has most commands disabled, reload and view source do not work. (Issues 7615, 7635, 7804)
Saving web pages does not work. Save as.. (Ctrl+S) appears to save to your Downloads folder, but it creates a file in the Application\2.0.164.0 directory. (Issue 7616)
Some pop-ups and tabs load pages, but the title remains 'Untitled' and the address bar shows 'about:blank' as the URL. (Issue 7625)

Let us know about any issues you find by filing a bug. --Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager

Dev Update: Bug Fixes

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.162.0. Thanks to work done in WebKit, Google Chrome can use web fonts (read more about it here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten ), including dynamic fonts for complex scripts. If you are a web developer this is huge news for you.

New features:

Web Font support, including dynamic and complex scripts
http://crbug.com/6688 Command line switch for the location of the disk cache.

Known Issues:

http://crbug.com/7570 Some sites in right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic crash the renderer

Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Jonathan Conradt

Engineering Program Manager
Mountain View, CA

Dev Update: Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and a V8 Update

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.160.0. The highlights for this week include a good number crash fixes and UI presentation and behavioral clean-up:

Fixes a number of tab dragging related crashes.
Fixes issue where Chrome could not be set as the default browser.
Add support for UA spoofing, and spoof Safari's UA string when loading URLs
Improving UI presentation in Vista and XP
We now generate a proper file name when dragging an image off the browser on to the desktop
V8 has been updated to version 0.4.9.3, read more in the V8 changelog.
Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.
Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome Program Manager

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