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Is anyone else having issues with the "New Tab Page" and "Speed Dial 2"? For some reason, every time when I click on an empty space or outside of Chrome, a Google search page appears. Whenever I type in the search box, the "New Tab Page" or "Speed Dial 2" (depends on if I have SD 2 enabled) re-appear again.

Similar to this Google page?

http://www.ghacks.net/2012/12/14/chromes-new-tab-page-puts-focus-on-google-search/

seems Google are more serious about 64bit windows builds than Mozilla are with there lack of " serious 64 bit builds . what i mean by " Serious " atleast Google will atleast officially support the browser unlike Mozilla

i dont think there will be a 64bit windows build anytime soon made :(

Similar to this Google page?

http://www.ghacks.ne...-google-search/

Yeah, but it was all messed up in the Dev-build. It would appear whenever you'd click anywhere, either inside or outside of Chrome. It's odd that it happens even tough "Enable Instant extended API" is disabled :s

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This update contains additional stability fixes. A full list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

  • 3 weeks later...

Stable Channel Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 24 to the stable channel. Chrome 24.0.1312.52 has been updated for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

This is the first Stable release with support for MathML, thanks to WebKit volunteer Dave Barton. This release also contains an update to Flash (11.5.31.137) as well as improvements in speed and stability. You can find out more about Chrome 24 on the Official Chrome Blog and the Official 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.

  • [$1000] [162494] High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  • [$4000] [165622] High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyenger, both of Facebook.
  • [$1000] [165864] High CVE-2012-5147: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to Jos? A. V?zquez.
  • [167122] Medium CVE-2012-5148: Missing filename sanitization in hyphenation support. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh).
  • [166795] High CVE-2012-5149: Integer overflow in audio IPC handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
  • [165601] High CVE-2012-5150: Use-after-free when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
  • [165538] High CVE-2012-5151: Integer overflow in PDF JavaScript. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.
  • [165430] Medium CVE-2012-5152: Out-of-bounds read when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
  • [164565] High CVE-2012-5153: Out-of-bounds stack access in v8. Credit to Andreas Rossberg of the Chromium development community.
  • [Windows only] [164490] Low CVE-2012-5154: Integer overflow in shared memory allocation. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
  • [Mac only] [163208] Medium CVE-2012-5155: Missing Mac sandbox for worker processes. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes).
  • [162778] High CVE-2012-5156: Use-after-free in PDF fields. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.
  • [162776] [162156] Medium CVE-2012-5157: Out-of-bounds reads in PDF image handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.
  • [162153] High CVE-2013-0828: Bad cast in PDF root handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.
  • [162114] High CVE-2013-0829: Corruption of database metadata leading to incorrect file access. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (J?ri Aedla).
  • [Windows only] [162066] Low CVE-2013-0830: Missing NUL termination in IPC. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh).
  • [161836] Low CVE-2013-0831: Possible path traversal from extension process. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Tom Sepez).
  • [160380] Medium CVE-2013-0832: Use-after-free with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
  • [154485] Medium CVE-2013-0833: Out-of-bounds read with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
  • [154283] Medium CVE-2013-0834: Out-of-bounds read with glyph handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
  • [152921] Low CVE-2013-0835: Browser crash with geolocation. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
  • [150545] High CVE-2013-0836: Crash in v8 garbage collection. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
  • [145363] Medium CVE-2013-0837: Crash in extension tab handling. Credit to Tom Nielsen.
  • [Linux only] [143859] Low CVE-2013-0838: Tighten permissions on shared memory segments. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Palmer).

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

The security issues in V8 have been fixed in v8-3.14.5.3.

We?d also like to thank Atte Kettunen and S?awomir B?a?ek for working with us during the development cycle and preventing security regressions from ever reaching the stable channel. Rewards were issued.

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This update contains additional stability fixes. A full list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Chrome 25 promoted to Beta Channel:

Beta Channel Update

The Chrome team is happy to announce the promotion of Chrome 25 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Chrome 25.0.1364.29 contains a number of new improvements, including:

A full list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1384.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

The new menu look from Zlip792's post above is in this build. Not sure if like.

wth? stick with native menus google!

It been several chromium snapshots and it is still showing and sticking with this menu style, so I think they ditched that old menus and I disabled many about:flags as well.

You can enable it. It's to do with touch sensitive interfaces flags.

If you override it it disables the funky menus.

Worry not ViperAFK.

Which flags enabled it, it is making my head fuzzy. Do tell me.

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1386.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

  • Fixed marking notifications when opened and closed (Issue: 169388)
  • Fixed web popup menus (Issue: 166832)
  • Fixed renderer form_autofill_util changes to support Checkboxes and Radiobuttons (Issue: 157636)
  • Fixed decoding of URL in bookmark editor (Issue: 165648)
  • Added the preferences and UI to make the launcher opt-inable (Issue: 151676)
  • Added incognito visualization to items in the new app menu (Issue: 169842)
  • Renamed the magnifier names: "Full" -> "Entire screen", "Partial" -> "Lens" (Issue: 166832)
  • Enable webkit preference for Chromium to disallow unsafe plugin pasting (Issue: 112325)
  • Fixed thumbnail view on Drive (Issue 170022)
  • Fixed crash bug in BookmarkEditorView (Issue 167385)

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Tanya Radeva

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

You can enable it. It's to do with touch sensitive interfaces flags.

If you override it it disables the funky menus.

Worry not ViperAFK.

There is no way to disable the new-style menus as far as I can see.

  • 3 weeks later...

For some reason my account was corrupted after a PC reboot yesterday. And now I can't seem to be able to log into my Google Chrome account. It shows me the account page and I login though it doesn't load the next page that's supposed to come up :s

Alright, fix it through the most obvious way: My account was still "signed in" but it asked for my password. I selected the option to sign in with a complete new account and re-entered my email and the corresponding password. Now it's logged in and all synced up again.

Edit: A question though. Has anyone had the Omnibox being part of a Google search page? Whenever I was searching on Google yesterday the Omnibox was part of the search page and the black bar of Google was gone (I hope I'm explaining this right). The Omnibox dropdown also looked a bit different and the "New Tab" page had a search field in it as well.

For some reason my account was corrupted after a PC reboot yesterday. And now I can't seem to be able to log into my Google Chrome account. It shows me the account page and I login though it doesn't load the next page that's supposed to come up :s

Alright, fix it through the most obvious way: My account was still "signed in" but it asked for my password. I selected the option to sign in with a complete new account and re-entered my email and the corresponding password. Now it's logged in and all synced up again.

Edit: A question though. Has anyone had the Omnibox being part of a Google search page? Whenever I was searching on Google yesterday the Omnibox was part of the search page and the black bar of Google was gone (I hope I'm explaining this right). The Omnibox dropdown also looked a bit different and the "New Tab" page had a search field in it as well.

Its a known bug in chrome 24+, happens to everyone afiak. It happened to me on a totally fresh install yesterday.

  • 3 weeks later...

New menu look (might be some about:flags stuff (since I turned on many yesterday and feeling tired to find which one enabled it or might be work in progress):

Sf9rH.png

f3Spm.png

This just landed in beta when I updated this morning. Still getting memory leaks and malformed pages after Chrome has been open all day. Seems there isn't a browser that can be open 24/7 and handle memory properly :/

Edit: by malformed pages, I mean just below the fold (visible area of the browser window) if I start scrolling before the web page has fully loaded, bits of the page will be "missing" showing only background. Text selecting the affected area makes that bit readable again. Fix is to close Chrome and then open it again, restoring tab sessions.

Maybe it's a known bug? I've had it for ages anyway. Bloody annoying!

Still getting memory leaks and malformed pages after Chrome has been open all day. Seems there isn't a browser that can be open 24/7 and handle memory properly :/

In my experience Chrome is the worst of them all in this regard. Internet Explorer is by far and far the best browser in terms of memory management (for me), Firefox second and Chrome last. I haven't ran Opera or any other browsers in a while so couldn't say about them.

Yet Chrome is the browser I use... :/

In my experience Chrome is the worst of them all in this regard. Internet Explorer is by far and far the best browser in terms of memory management (for me), Firefox second and Chrome last. I haven't ran Opera or any other browsers in a while so couldn't say about them.

Yet Chrome is the browser I use... :/

Same mate, the lack of some of the add-ons I use for IE holds me back from switching :/

New menu look (might be some about:flags stuff (since I turned on many yesterday and feeling tired to find which one enabled it or might be work in progress):

Sf9rH.png

f3Spm.png

They should stick to native menus. I don't like inconsistency.

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