[Dev Channel] Google Chrome 5.0.375 (for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows)


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I hate the new grey. Luckily, Chrome is only a secondary browser for me. I use Windows 7 with Aero, and chrome at least LOOKED a bit consistent with my OS until they made the buttons grey. On top of that, the labels on top of the buttons are still blue, it looks really tacky. Dark blue on a funky shade of grey.

Sadly, I cannot just use a custom Google Chrome theme or else I lose Aero glass for Chrome, lose/lose situation for me. I don't like a non-aero-enabled window sticking out like a sore thumb next to other aero enabled windows. Very inconsistent, very ugly. Drives me nuts. Good thing Firefox is my main browser, lol.

  On 14/04/2010 at 00:13, SuperKid said:

Maybe the grey is just to show its a dev build or something?? i doubt they just got rid of the blue does not make sense to me, blue was nice.

That's what I was thinking as well. I guess the future will tell us in due time :p

To be honest, I kinda miss the blue after using this update for a day. Though I also like the current gray shade on the toolbar. So I'm kinda torn between what toolbar I like better :p

Running it right now and I am really happy with it; although I'll probably move to the next version of Safari once it is using Webkit2. So far it is really stable but there has been no improvement promised when it comes to the Flash plugin; it is still peaking at 38% when watching videos on YouTube. There is no excuse for Adobe to be lazy given that /System/Library/Frameworks/VideoDecodeAcceleration.framework was added recently to 10.6.3 update.

Adobe got what they wanted, access to the video card with the latest update of Mac OS X and they still can't get it right - die Adobe! die!

  On 14/04/2010 at 09:31, Capric0rn said:

That's what I was thinking as well. I guess the future will tell us in due time :p

To be honest, I kinda miss the blue after using this update for a day. Though I also like the current gray shade on the toolbar. So I'm kinda torn between what toolbar I like better :p

I hope they stick to the grey colour. IMHO it looks a lot better than the blue in older builds.

  On 14/04/2010 at 09:33, rawr_boy81 said:

Running it right now and I am really happy with it; although I'll probably move to the next version of Safari once it is using Webkit2.

Why do you think that Safari will get Webkit2 before Chrome does?

  On 14/04/2010 at 10:55, mad_onion said:
Why do you think that Safari will get Webkit2 before Chrome does?

Because I assume that given the delay between development and merging, that Apple will complete their browser before merging all the stuff back into the tree.

With that being said, however, whose to say that Google would do it? they've already invested large amounts of cash in it and although it would be logical to use webkit2 sometimes organisations make stupid decisions.

  On 14/04/2010 at 09:34, Mephistopheles said:

I hope they stick to the grey colour. IMHO it looks a lot better than the blue in older builds.

I'm leaning towards this now as well. I'm sure that it's going to look even nicer once they've fixed all the leftovers from the blue toolbar e.g. the blue strokes around the buttons and the address bar. They shouldn't change the blue icons to gray though, because that would ruin the current look that it has.

Edit: They could enhance it a bit though:

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Edited by Capric0rn
  On 14/04/2010 at 13:55, Capric0rn said:

I'm leaning towards this now as well. I'm sure that it's going to look even nicer once they've fixed all the leftovers from the blue toolbar e.g. the blue strokes around the buttons and the address bar. They shouldn't change the blue icons to gray though, because that would ruin the current look that it has.

Yeah the grey fits better with Windows, although I'm sure they could tweak it better to look native. The blue didn't look native at all (although I didn't mind it).

As you said once they tidy up things a little more and rid of the left over borders/strokes/etc it will be even better.

  On 14/04/2010 at 13:19, Mephistopheles said:

For those who miss the blue toolbar colour: Google have a 'Classic theme' in their theme gallery.

I installed it but it didn't change anything. Everything is as before. Thanks anyway.

  On 14/04/2010 at 16:12, dead.cell said:

Aside from color adjustments and such, is anyone else noticing a weird change with the address bar?

For me, it's no longer showing the http:// part of the URLs. It's either domain.ext/blah or www.domain.ext/blah for me.

Yeah they've removed http. Only shows https:// and ftp:// now.

Reason behind it is http is a bit redundant, you don't need to type it.

Another thing I'm noticing: When on Facebook, and you middle-click a link, it takes your current tab to the link as well so you end up with 2 tabs of the same page. Not sure if it's like that with all Facebook links, but the links in the notifications do this at least. :(

Currently on 4.1 at work, and it does not do this.

  On 14/04/2010 at 16:27, Audioboxer said:

Yeah they've removed http. Only shows https:// and ftp:// now.

Reason behind it is http is a bit redundant, you don't need to type it.

also it shows www for some sites and removed from other sites i think it depends on your .htaccess redirect if you redirect visitors to www then it will show if not it won`t show in the address bar.

Also i`m having a problem with auto-complete when i double click a text field i get (unlabeled) but when i start typing with the keyboard the auto-complete works , anyone have this problem or know how to fix it ?

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