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

[ToneKnee]

Love the fact that the Download progress bar is on the Taskbar now! :D

[Lazure]

They need to make it so we can install themes without it destroying Aero. Ya know, make it so it only uses the button bar portion of the theme and leaves the glass alone. The grey does NOT fit the aero look as much as the blue did, because in Windows 7... a lot of toolbars and menus are a pale blue color, not grey.

[caschy]

Hi Chrome Fans :)

We've build a portable version of Google Chrome. BUT: with an updater: you can use Chrome for testing and switch via Updater between Dev/Beta/ Release/Chromium and vice versa :)

http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/neues-von-google-chrome/

Download Link at the bottom (Download Portable Google Chrome mit Updater)

Have fun.

[Jan Veteran]

  On 14/04/2010 at 03:43, Lazure said:

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 the Extensions page, search Aero and you'll find LOTS of themes with Aero support. I'm using the Mac theme with Aero, IT LOOKS SWEET!

[Fluxii Media]

  On 18/04/2010 at 19:06, EgyptianDuck said:

On the Extensions page, search Aero and you'll find LOTS of themes with Aero support. I'm using the Mac theme with Aero, IT LOOKS SWEET!

I never knew that... and now I love Chrome even more.

[ToneKnee]

  On 18/04/2010 at 19:05, Lazure said:

They need to make it so we can install themes without it destroying Aero. Ya know, make it so it only uses the button bar portion of the theme and leaves the glass alone. The grey does NOT fit the aero look as much as the blue did, because in Windows 7... a lot of toolbars and menus are a pale blue color, not grey.

That's because of the standard Windows 7 colour themes. Adjust it to 'White' and tone it down, it looks quite good!

[Chrysaor]

  On 18/04/2010 at 18:43, Tony. said:

Love the fact that the Download progress bar is on the Taskbar now! :D

Its not properly implemented though, progress bar appears on application shortcuts too.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

@kraized: Noticed this myself today as well. Nothing major has changed except that they've apparently fixed some crashes :)

[Brandon H Supervisor]

has anyone else noticed that they turned tap preview in the superbar back off again

they had that feature for a few of the v5 builds but they turned it back off again a few builds back

[WAR-DOG]

I'm not going to update yet, sticking with 4.x.x for now...

Just wondering has it print preview? can it open .xps files?

[Brandon H Supervisor]

i can see why'd you'd want to stay with v4 for now

v5 tends to randomly crash at times, but i use it because i like the improvements that have been made

but every man to their own i guess

[Jamushroom Veteran]

@Brando212: It has been disabled due to it being too buggy. Once they've made a less buggy version of the feature it'll be reimplemented :)

[Brandon H Supervisor]

interesting thought, they should have an option in settings (most likely in the "Under the Hood" tab) that gives you the option to have superbar tab preview enabled or not

[Jamushroom Veteran]

It's still possible to use it if you put " --enable-aero-peek-tabs" behind the execute command.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

execute command?

[Jamushroom Veteran]

Yeah, like in a shortcut where you have a link to the *.exe, like so: C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --enable-aero-peek-tab. Execute Chrome like that and you'll have the Aero Peek feature running again.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

oh yeah,

i feel smart now lol

[Paul Paliath]

Not really a fan of the grey color in these latest builds :(

Hopefully they get Aero Peek functionality more stable though, it was pretty bad in the dev build before this. Those tiny little windows would appear when you minimize Chrome; it was quite a wreck. :p

[tsupersonic]

Holy, the newest build is getting like a 8400 on v8 benchmark :D The last time I've used Chrome, it got like a 6500

[bangbang023 Veteran]

I still think the Peacekeeper test is the best overall way of comparing the browsers. On my system, Chrome barely edges out Opera (Athlon64 3700+, 2gb RAM).

[tsupersonic]

I tried running Peacekeeper in Opera, but it crashed at the end. Anyways, Chrome destroys Firefox.

[ViperAFK]

  On 18/04/2010 at 23:24, tsupersonic said:

I tried running Peacekeeper in Opera, but it crashed at the end. Anyways, Chrome destroys Firefox.

I just tried to run it on chrome and it completely froze my pc :0

  On 18/04/2010 at 22:41, Paulz0r said:

Not really a fan of the grey color in these latest builds :(

Hopefully they get Aero Peek functionality more stable though, it was pretty bad in the dev build before this. Those tiny little windows would appear when you minimize Chrome; it was quite a wreck. :p

I like the grey a lot more than the nasty baby blue.