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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:
Issue
8526
(and others): You might have issues with Google Chrome in maximized window when you change screen resolutions, exit the screensaver, or unlock the screen.
Issue
8438
: Browser hangs if history page shows after clearing history
Issue
8456
: History tab search tab eats every alternate clicks
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
8527
: No context menu with one tab
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:
New
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
Issue
5127
: Ctrl-T accelerator for a new tab does not select Omnibox
Issue
8438
: Browser hangs if history page shows after clearing history
Issue
8456
: History tab search tab eats every alternate clicks
Issue
8453
: Regression: about:network dialog shows up behind current Chrome window
Issue
8479
: Javascript alerts don't work in New Tab Page.
Issue
8437
: Cannot switch to background Chrome window with modal dialog open
Issue
8412
: Copying most visited page screenshot and selecting paste and go causes crash
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
8345
: Browser crash on "Remove/Remove All' of passwords
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
8016
: Fonts and Languages Tab is truncated.
Issue
7920
: Ctrl+Shift+T should not undo SSL Error page !
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
,
816
3
)
[
r10777
]Make it so that dropdown selects don't deactivate the main frame when opened
http://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
,
833
0
)
[
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, PMP
Chrome 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 Issues
Just 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 Laforge
Google Chrome Program Manager
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