updates Meet the browser: Chrome Next

[BooBerry]

Version 47 is in Dev channel

 

[.stan]

Version 47 is in Dev channel

 

nah, canary is 47, dev 46 and so on.

[BooBerry]

nah, canary is 47, dev 46 and so on.

It takes a day or so for the update to be pushed to dev.

so next dev update will bump the version to 47.

[Boo Berry]

Chromium/Canary are usually the first builds to get pushed to the next milestone.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

New Material Design Downloads default enabled.

 

https://twitter.com/I_am_AhmadS/status/636943277493723137

Edited August 27, 2015 by Zlip792

[bawz]

New Material Design Downloads default enabled.

 

https://twitter.com/I_am_AhmadS/status/636943277493723137

they look much better the new Download area od Chrome, the previous one is craola

[Boo Berry]

Chrome 45 stable is out and NPAPI plugin support is completely gone now (no flag to enable them).

[Steven P. Administrators]

Oh crap, and I forgot to write about it yesterday. Chrome 46 landed on beta yet? (want to see the new downloader UI)

[Steven P. Administrators]

v46 isn't on beta channel atm, guess I have to wait a bit longer.

[.stan]

New icon is out on Dev 

[Steven P. Administrators]

New icon is out on Dev 

Hey is that MetroLoop I see there?

[.stan]

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Hey is that MetroLoop I see there?

Yep, still the best client for Windows

[.stan]

New bookmark bar icons

 

 

[Jub]

Quotes are broken, so post derped.

@.stan, no new icon on OS X yet.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

New bookmark bar icons

 

 

Hm, would've been nice of those had a different colour than the text.

[Scar]

I hope they somehow improve the way the browser looks on Windows 10.

[.stan]

New download shelf look in Canary

[maeby]

I hope they somehow improve the way the browser looks on Windows 10.

yeah, the whole UI, gradients, the shape of the tabs etc. looks very dated

[Anibal P]

Seems I just got 48.0.2535.0 dev-m (64-bit) and it seems to me that there has been some refinement to the UI

First thing I really noticed was the back forward and reload icons seems thinner and sharper? Also the menu button went from the 3 dashes to 3 dots, and it has a slight animation when pressed that other buttons in the UI do not have 

May be just me and my old eyes but everything seems to be crisper or sharper

*edit* interestingly, my laptop has the same version but the UI didn't change, didn't see anything in the flags that I could have changed  

Edited October 16, 2015 by Anibal P

[trag3dy]

Seems like they've forced the user menu once again by disabling the short cut workaround in the latest beta.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Seems I just got 48.0.2535.0 dev-m (64-bit) and it seems to me that there has been some refinement to the UI

First thing I really noticed was the back forward and reload icons seems thinner and sharper? Also the menu button went from the 3 dashes to 3 dots, and it has a slight animation when pressed that other buttons in the UI do not have 

May be just me and my old eyes but everything seems to be crisper or sharper

*edit* interestingly, my laptop has the same version but the UI didn't change, didn't see anything in the flags that I could have changed  

You could be part of some finch experiment or some flag might be enabled. Since now looking anything like this here.

[.stan]

Seems I just got 48.0.2535.0 dev-m (64-bit) and it seems to me that there has been some refinement to the UI

First thing I really noticed was the back forward and reload icons seems thinner and sharper? Also the menu button went from the 3 dashes to 3 dots, and it has a slight animation when pressed that other buttons in the UI do not have 

May be just me and my old eyes but everything seems to be crisper or sharper

*edit* interestingly, my laptop has the same version but the UI didn't change, didn't see anything in the flags that I could have changed  

It's chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md, if you are talking about what I showed on my screenshot above.

[Anibal P]

 

It's chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md, if you are talking about what I showed on my screenshot above.

Cool. forgot I set that, looks much better than default IMO 

[.stan]

 

Cool. forgot I set that, looks much better than default IMO 

You probably didn't. They run experiments all the time where they enable certain flags for users, it probably just hit you

[Sszecret Veteran]

I'm running 46.0.2490.71 dev-m (no updates available, I checked) . Is there any way to disable Chrome's new tab discharging thing? It's already screwed me over a couple of times, after I left a YT video paused and switched tabs, only for it to dump the YT tab. It also happened with stuff on Neowin (it was the worst with the Random Pictures thread tab I had open) and a post I was drafting in the wordpress editor.

When drafting said posts, I usually have other tabs open to research the topic at the same time. I even tried separating it into different windows, each taking half the screen and Chrome still dumped the content willy-nilly. After the refresh, it 'served' me an older version of the draft, even though I had saved changes before switching tabs. It got so bad I had to switch to Firefox to finish the draft. 

Is there any way to deal with this?