[Beta Channel] Google Chrome 7.0.xxx.xx (for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows)

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Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 7.0.517.0 for Windows, Linux, and ChromeFrame.

Update: 7.0.517.5 has been release for all platforms including Mac (new feature for Mac inline in the blog post).

All

• about:labs (Issue: 53399)
  
• Fewer wstrings in the bookmark code!
  
• Problems visiting http://localhost in various network configurations should be resolved (Issues: 42058, 49024, 32522).
  

Windows

• See All
  

Mac

• Support for Services (Issue 20868)
  
• Support for AppleScript (Issue 27468)
  
• Find bar and fullscreen overlay are now drawn correctly on top of plugins that use the CoreAnimation drawing model (Issue 44087)
  
• Remove superfluous Console logging (Issue 26621)
  

Linux

• [r58011] [[email protected]] [OS-LINUX] Issue 29333 - use_system_xml causes many sites to fail to load
  
• Remove libxml hack that is not needed after we rolled in the WebKit fix (Issue: 29333)
  
• [r58449] Fix default browser selection on KDE 4 on many RPM-based distributions. (Issue 33842)
  

Known Issues

• Certain actions on YouTube fail, such as "Like" (Issue: 54424)
  

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

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

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome

Source: Google Chrome Releases blog

Direct download link for the Windows version

[gigapixels Veteran]

The only Labs feature currently available is side tabs... Not sure how much I like them, and they obviously still have to work on their UI.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

Opened up Chrome and I noticed the new "New Tab" page. Instantly went to Neowin.net to check this thread :p

Thanks for the heads-up Meph! (Y)

[progh]

no auto update?

[Quillz]

Not available for Mac OS X, apparently. And I still think OmniWeb is the only browser that has gotten side tabs correct.

[Fluxii Media]

Side Tabs is alright, but it doesn't match the rest of the UI at all, I'm sure it's a work in progress and it's not bad having them on the side like that if you have a widescreen monitor.

[LightShadow]

Yes, my complaint about the huge bookmark menus got fixed! Finally, when this comes to Beta/Stable I'll be even happier! :D

And I don't really like the "new" new tab page. As the current 6.0 version has links for History and downloads easily. Now I have to go in the menu when I loved them their and easy to access :/ I don't really like the new UI of it that much anyway.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

^The current "New Tab" page still has the history at the bottom of the page :) The bookmarks menu are still somewhat large imo though.

[LightShadow]

^The current "New Tab" page still has the history at the bottom of the page :) The bookmarks menu are still somewhat large imo though.

Better than they were, if you had a bookmark with a huge name, the menu size would adjust and fill lots of the screen!

[ToneKnee]

GPU rendering is back with this update as well, I had the flags enabled but they stopped working, but I noticed when I made a new tab (obviously when Chrome updated) that the font rendering had changed. :D

[x-scratch]

no auto update?

mine auto updates

[Anibal P]

Looks like youtube stopped dying on me after this update, was getting VERY annoying to have to fire up FF just to watch a youtube video on their site

[bbfc_uk]

Hmmm... Side Tabs are er, interesting. I can see some use but obviously work needs to be done on them.

Love Chrome, use it as my default browser.

[Jamushroom Veteran]

Better than they were, if you had a bookmark with a huge name, the menu size would adjust and fill lots of the screen!

True that. Though I change the names for most bookmarks to a shorter name to make it all a little bit nicer. I usually just dump all random bookmarks in the "Other Bookmarks" menu and have the important ones on the bookmarks bar. So I wasn't really bothered by the long names bug :p

GPU rendering is back with this update as well, I had the flags enabled but they stopped working, but I noticed when I made a new tab (obviously when Chrome updated) that the font rendering had changed. :D

Where does one enable this flag?

[-Dave-]

wheres my mac version!!! :(

[LightShadow]

I really wish about:labs had more options, like the tabbed version of options etc. It only offers Side-Tabs which are easy to get by the --tag. They should have all the --tag features under about:labs.

[Fluxii Media]

Where does one enable this flag?

"-enable-accelerated-compositing" is put after chrome.exe in the shortcut target properties.

[Ci7]

the good thing about side tabs

is that you can easily now use aero snip

not mention it waste less space for wide screen panel

[ToneKnee]

"-enable-accelerated-compositing" is put after chrome.exe in the shortcut target properties.

If not: --enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-video-layering --enable-webgl --enable-fastback

[Fluxii Media]

If not: --enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-video-layering --enable-webgl --enable-fastback

All those work too? :blink:

[ToneKnee]

All those work too? :blink:

From the Canary build, got it from another thread.

[Singh400]

Hmmm, I don't like the fact that I can't remove stuff from the new tab page :(

[Ci7]

Hmmm, I don't like the fact that I can't remove stuff from the new tab page :(

wat?

[BryanChung]

Gosh I really dislike not able to do SHARING from Youtube. =(

[Brandon H Supervisor]

yeah, they really need to fix the youtube buttons problem