updates Meet the browser: Chrome Next

[LOC Veteran]

Ah, yeah not seeing that issue at all. Sorry man.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.60 for Windows

This build should fix most of the choppy and distorted audio issues (Issue:

136624). If you've seen these issues with the Beta, please leave us an update on the bug.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at

http://code.google.c...um/issues/entry

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Stable Channel Release

The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 21 to the Stable Channel. 21.0.1180.57 for Mac and Linux. 21.0.1180.60 for Windows and Chrome Frame. Chrome 21 contains a number of new features including a new API for high-quality video and audio communication. More detailed updates are available on the Chrome 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.

• [Linux only] [125225] Medium CVE-2012-2846: Cross-process interference in renderers. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes).
  
• [127522] Low CVE-2012-2847: Missing re-prompt to user upon excessive downloads. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security.
  
• [127525] Medium CVE-2012-2848: Overly broad file access granted after drag+drop. Credit to Matt Austin of Aspect Security.
  
• [128163] Low CVE-2012-2849: Off-by-one read in GIF decoder. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  
• [130251] [130592] [130611] [131068] [131237] [131252] [131621] [131690] [132860] Medium CVE-2012-2850: Various lower severity issues in the PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
  
• [132585] [132694] [132861] High CVE-2012-2851: Integer overflows in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
  
• [134028] High CVE-2012-2852: Use-after-free with bad object linkage in PDF. Credit to Alexey Samsonov of Google.
  
• [134101] Medium CVE-2012-2853: webRequest can interfere with the Chrome Web Store. Credit to Trev of Adblock.
  
• [134519] Low CVE-2012-2854: Leak of pointer values to WebUI renderers. Credit to Nasko Oskov of the Chromium development community.
  
• [134888] High CVE-2012-2855: Use-after-free in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
  
• [134954] [135264] High CVE-2012-2856: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
  
• [$1000] [136235] High CVE-2012-2857: Use-after-free in CSS DOM. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
  
• [$1000] [136894] High CVE-2012-2858: Buffer overflow in WebP decoder. Credit to J?ri Aedla.
  
• [Linux only] [137541] Critical CVE-2012-2859: Crash in tab handling. Credit to Jeff Roberts of Google Security Team.
  
• [137671] Medium CVE-2012-2860: Out-of-bounds access when clicking in date picker. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
  

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

We?d also like to thank Drew Yao / Braden Thomas / Jim Smith (all Apple Product Security), Kostya Serebryany of the Chromium development community, Atte Kettunen of OUSPG and Bernhard Bauer of the Chromium development community for working with us during the development cycle and preventing security regressions from ever reaching the stable channel.

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

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

[still1]

thanks for the heads up... updating now

[richardsim7]

Cool, but still have that "first page won't load" bug. Untick phishing to get it to work

[still1]

cool!! "Chrome now includes the getUserMedia API, which lets you grant web apps access to your camera and microphone without a plug-in. The getUserMedia API is the first step in WebRTC, a new real-time communications standard which aims to allow high-quality video and audio communication on the web."

before anyone jump to conclusion it need explicit permission to enable them.

[derkim]

It seems they add some new icons in the omnibox. There is a new star and cookie icon.

Also the performance of the omnibox is much better.

[still1]

Chrome 21 stable features expanded support for gamepads, and support for high-resolution Mac Retina screens.

CSS seems to be hardware accelerated by default in this stable build.

[richardsim7]

Chrome 21 appears to have broken favicons, unless this is a feature

[still1]

Did anyone notice the chrome for windows 8 metro with chrome stable 21?

[.stan]

Anyone else having serious problems with Facebook in the last few weeks? (dev branch) For me the Javascript stuff is almost never working and parts don't load etc.

[Jub]

Anyone else having serious problems with Facebook in the last few weeks? (dev branch) For me the Javascript stuff is almost never working and parts don't load etc.

Aye, I had those problems too. So much, in fact, that I switched to beta channel.

[Kaoxt]

Chrome 21 appears to have broken favicons, unless this is a feature

Those are the new icons. I preferred the small world icon instead of the page icon.

[BetaAddict]

Is there a way to get the Instant Search feature in the omnibar working for Bing? I remember it used to work way back when they first introduce the feature in Chrome 13.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

First Chromium 22.0.1229.0 build 150214 containing new wrench icon.

[still1]

First Chromium 22.0.1229.0 build 150214 containing new wrench icon.

this icon look better than the wrench

[Brian Miller]

Popups blocked but stop seem to get spawned.

[Jan Veteran]

First Chromium 22.0.1229.0 build 150214 containing new wrench icon.

They should use the Android version instead.

[theyarecomingforyou]

First Chromium 22.0.1229.0 build 150214 containing new wrench icon.

I like that, though I don't dislike the current icon.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.64 for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome Frame

This build fixes:

• more of the choppy and distorted audio issues (Issue: 136624).
  
• Some known crashes (Issue: 140140)
  
• Japanese characters showing in Chinese font (Issue: 140432)
  
• Video playback issues with flash-based sites (Issue: 139953)
  
• Sync invalidation notification broken after restart (Issue: 139424)
  

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

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.75 for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome Frame

This build fixes:

• Flash videos not longer remaining in fullscreen when clicking a secondary monitor while the video is playing (Issue: 140366).
  
• Flash video full screen displays on wrong monitor (Issue: 137523)
  
• REGRESSION: Rendering difference in Chrome 21 and 22 that affected on Persian Wikipedia (Issue: 139502)
  
• Some known crashes (Issues: 137498, 138552, 128652)
  
• Audio objects are not "switched" immediately (Issue: 140247)
  
• Print and Print Preview ignore paper size default in printer config (Issue: 135374)
  
• Candidate windows is shown in wrong place in Retina display (Issue: 139108)
  
• We've also fixed the issue with no webpages loading (Issue: 140982)
  

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

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 22.0.1229.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. A complete log of what changed can be found in the svn revision log. Instructions and download links for our different release channels are available on the Chromium wiki. If you find what you think is a new bug, please file it in our issue tracker.

Jason Kersey

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

The new menu toolbar icon landed with this build:

[Jamushroom Veteran]

^A minor yet cool change, haha. Is there any word of a better built-in download manager coming to Chrome? Perhaps something like the one in the latest Safari, like a button in the toolbar with a dropdown menu? Kinda like what they're doing in Firefox as well.

Also, I'm still hoping for Google to change the folder icon for Bookmark folders. The current one looks like a folder icon you'd expect to see in Windows 2000 and below.

Edit: They've also seemed to have changed something regarding with Font rendering. For example; The time indicators on YouTube in the player look different than before the new Dev Channel Update. I have also noticed this on Facebook on the 3 buttons in the top toolbar. These are the only places where I have noticed it so far.

Edit 2: Font rendering has changed period. Not only for those things mentioned above but font rendering in general has changed since this Dev Channel Update.

[Mohitster]

What's supposedly "wrong" with the tabs in Chrome?

They are just old!! :p

[SuperKid]

First Chromium 22.0.1229.0 build 150214 containing new wrench icon.

They should get rid of this icon for the OS X version because you can just go to Chrome > Preferences