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Stable Channel Update

The Stable 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, 140140)
  • 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)
  • more of the choppy and distorted audio issues (Issue: 136624)
  • 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)

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.

  • [136643] [137721] [137957] High CVE-2012-2862: Use-after-free in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
  • [136968] [137361] High CVE-2012-2863: Out-of-bounds writes in PDF viewer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.

Chromium updated to 23 with this introduction..

Random facts about 23, courtesy of Wikipedia 23 is the atomic number of vanadium (next up Chromium...) According to the birthday paradox, in a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that some pair of them will have the same birthday. 23 is the width of the Arecibo message, sent to space in search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Normal human reproductive cells have 23 chromosomes. 23 is the TCP/IP port used for telnet Michael Jordan wore the number 23 when he played on the Chicago Bulls (and Washington Wizards) The 1980s TV series Max Headroom was set at Network 23. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23*, and 42 The Number 23 is a 2007 film starring Jim Carrey. The 23 enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23.

revision: 150649

All of these changes, yet they still can't produce a change that countless users have been clamoring for since 2009: an option to auto-close or remove the download bar that intrusively pops up after every single download in the browser.

Chrome needs a better download manager. The browser has evolved over the years but the download manager has not. An option to run downloads instead of saving them would also be nice.

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.77 for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome Frame

This build fixes a problem with an item in Node::attributes disappearing (Issue 140473).

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

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 22.0.1229.2 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

Stable Channel Update

Monday, August 13, 2012 | 11:33

The Stable channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.77 for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome Frame

This build fixes a problem with an item in Node::attributes disappearing (Issue 140473).

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

The dev channel has been updated to 22.0.1229.6. No post on the Google Chrome Releases blog for it. My guess is that it fixes the same security issue with Adobe Flash as this:

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.79 for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome Frame

This build fixes a security issue with Adobe Flash. You can read more about this in Adobe's Security Bulletin.

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

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 22.0.1229.8 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

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.81 for Mac, Linux, Windows and Chrome Frame

This build fixes the following issues:

  • Duplex Printing defaults to Yes, which prints extra pages even for a 1 page print out (Issue 138312).
  • Print preview takes forever on Win XP (issue: 140044)
  • Anti-DDoS inversion of logic (Issues: 141643, 141081)
  • Pepper Flash: in file uploads, treats HTTP status != 200 as failure, breaking (e.g.) uploads to Amazon S3 (Issue: 140468)
  • Projectmanager.com application causes Flash to hang (Issue: 141018)
  • Turn off TLS 1.1 in Chrome 21 Stable (Issue: 142172)
  • An additional scroll bar appears at the right on many sites (issue: 140239)
  • Setting and unsetting display:none obliterates current scroll position (issue: 140101)

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

Karen Grunberg

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Some UI Changes in Chrome 23:

Tab-Strip Changes:

Fix tab-strip related constants to accommodate the new images.

1. Shift tab contents up by 2px.

2. Shift close button left by 4px.

3. Increase the space between tabs (the width of the "V") by 3px.

4. Shift omnibox down 1px.

and Omnibox Changes:

Fix omnibox appearance with the new asset:

1. Change border asset to point to the new one.

2. Change omnibox background color to an OS dependent color instead of white.

3. Delete the obsolete omnibox_border.png entr in the grd file.

Stable Channel Update

The Stable channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.81 for Linux, 21.0.1180.83 for Windows and Chrome Frame and both Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 21.0.1180.82 for Mac and

This build fixes the following issues:

  • Duplex Printing defaults to Yes, which prints extra pages even for a 1 page print out (Issue 138312).
  • Print preview takes forever on Win XP (issue: 140044)
  • Anti-DDoS inversion of logic (Issues: 141643, 141081)
  • Pepper Flash: in file uploads, treats HTTP status != 200 as failure, breaking (e.g.) uploads to Amazon S3 (Issue: 140468)
  • Projectmanager.com application causes Flash to hang (Issue: 141018)
  • Turn off TLS 1.1 in Chrome 21 Stable (Issue: 142172)
  • Setting and unsetting display:none obliterates current scroll position (issue: 140101)

These builds also have a new version of Flash with security and other fixes. More information can be foundhere.

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

I disagree. The tabs in Chrome are very simple, minimalist and efficient. I really don't like the angular tabs...

You know you don't really have to state whether you agree or disagree in an opinion piece. Or you shouldn't have to if it is well written.

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