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Chrome Beta Release

The Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 18.0.1025.11 to the Beta Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

Chrome 18 contains some really great improvements including GPU accelerating 2D Canvas, and enabling 3D content for older GPUs. More on what's new at the Official Chrome Blog and the Chromium Blog.

You can find full details about the changes that are in Chrome 18 in the SVN revision log. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug. Want to change to another Chrome release channel? Find out how.

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

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here is an article about tab overflow. and how Google's plan to implement it.(its a bit old article but just an fyi) its not going to be here anytime soon.... http://blog.chromium.org/2009/01/tabbed-browsing-in-google-chrome.html

Guess Google cares more about novelty speed increases than usability.

Guess Google cares more about novelty speed increases than usability.

It is quite usable for most users. Otherwise it wouldn't be #2 in terms of market share right now. Simply put, if you don't like it, don't use it. :p

Guess Google cares more about novelty speed increases than usability.

tbh, Google has not implemented tab overflow the traditional way because of the usability.

if you read the article i posted under section "many tab overflow" i hope you ll get some idea.

at least to me having a drop down/ a scroll for tab seems to be less usability..

I hope Google do something soon because many have been requesting that feature at least as an option.

here is the issue id http://code.google.c...s/detail?id=188

Do star it so that it will be implemented quickly.

  • 2 weeks later...

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 18.0.1025.39 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms

All

  • Updated V8 - 3.8.9.8
  • Fixed several crashes (Issues: 111376, 108688, 114391)
  • Fixed Firefox browser in Import Bookmarks and Settings drop-down (Issue: 114476)
  • Sync: Sessions aren't associating pre-existing tabs (Issue: 113319)
  • Fixed All "Extensions" make an entry under the "NTP Apps" page (Issue: 113672)

Windows

  • Print Dialog Partly Off Screen w/ Windows 7 Vertical Taskbar (Issue: 112614)
  • "Recently Closed" menu is missing after restarting Chrome (Issue: 110785)
  • Fixed Garbled text on the SSL chip displayed in the Omnibox (Issue: 114168)

Mac

  • Fixed Custom cursor decoding with wrong color (Issue: 114598)
  • Fixed Custom image cursor makes the cursor disappear altogether (Issue: 111027)
  • Fixed Chrome on dual-GPU NVIDIA/Intel MacBook Pro hangs browser (Issue 113703)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

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Chrome 18 stable released.

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 18 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. 18.0.1025.142 contains a number of new features including faster and fancier graphics. More detailed updates are available on the Chrome Blog and the Chromium Blog.

Security fixes and rewards:

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.

Some of the items listed below represent the start of hardening measures based on study of the exploits submitted to the Pwnium competition.

  • [$500] [109574] Medium CVE-2011-3058: Bad interaction possibly leading to XSS in EUC-JP. Credit to Masato Kinugawa.
  • [$500] [112317] Medium CVE-2011-3059: Out-of-bounds read in SVG text handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
  • [$500] [114056] Medium CVE-2011-3060: Out-of-bounds read in text fragment handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [116398] Medium CVE-2011-3061: SPDY proxy certificate checking error. Credit to Leonidas Kontothanassis of Google.
  • [116524] High CVE-2011-3062: Off-by-one in OpenType Sanitizer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team.
  • [117417] Low CVE-2011-3063: Validate navigation requests from the renderer more carefully. Credit to kuzzcc, Sergey Glazunov, PinkiePie and scarybeasts (Google Chrome Security Team).
  • [$1000] [117471] High CVE-2011-3064: Use-after-free in SVG clipping. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  • [$1000] [117588] High CVE-2011-3065: Memory corruption in Skia. Credit to Omair.
  • [$500] [117794] Medium CVE-2011-3057: Invalid read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.

The bugs [112317], [114056] and [117471] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

We?d also like to thank miaubiz, Chamal de Silva, Atte Kettunen of OUSPG, Aki Helin of OUSPG and Arthur Gerkis for working with us during the development cycle and preventing security regressions from ever reaching the stable channel. $8000 of additional rewards were issued for this awesomeness.

This version also contains the new Adobe Flash release. Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

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