Latest changes:
Highlights for this release:
· Google Chrome now supports the video tag.
· --auto-spell-correct flag will fix common typos like "teh" for "the" in the blink of an eye.
· Various bits of UI clean-up (toolbar and dangerous download bar paint issues).
· Multiple crash fixes.
Known Issue:
· The font in the browser's user interface is very small in most non-English languages. This will be fixed in the next Dev channel update. (Issue 12309).
Version Changes:
· WebKit - 531.0
· V8 - 1.2.5.1
· Gears - 0.5.21.0
•[r16934] [OS-ALL] Fixed issue with find-in-page that affected Korean users. (Issue: 11863) •[r16949] [OS-ALL] New Downloads page shows the remaining time left for downloads. (Issue: 9607) •[r16950] [OS-ALL] Fixed a regression where password autofill would not be triggered in some cases. (Issue: 12675) •[r16960] [OS-ALL] Clearing the download history in a normal browser window should also clear out the download history in incognito mode windows window and vice-versa. (Issue: 11514) •[r16973] [OS-ALL] "Copy link address" for an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) would copy Punycode instead of Unicode. (Issue: 4008) •[r16987] [OS-ALL] ‘Ctrl+W’ now dismisses the Bookmark Manager. (Issue: 4030) •[r16995] [OS-ALL] For certain RTL pages Chrome would display spaces or ellipsis on the new tab page for the page titles. (Issue: 7697) •[r17000] [OS-ALL] It's now possible to view svgz files from local disk. (Issue: 9936) •[r17012] [OS-ALL] Fixed a bug where Google Chrome would lose omnibox edits when tabs were dragged out. (Issue: 10632) •[r17013] [OS-ALL] Google Chrome now opens a new tab page rather than the homepage if startup is set to "open the following" with a blank list. (Issue: 6901) •[r17025] [OS-ALL] Fixed the problem of the status bubble obscuring the download shelf. (Issue: 6590) •[r17026] [OS-ALL] Fixed an error where the status bubble would display in the wrong location (sometimes outside the browser window) for RTL languages (Issue: 12148) •[r17032] [OS-ALL] After dismissing the find bar, by pressing the escape key, further pressing of the escape key caused the find-in bar to momentarily flash on the screen. (Issue: 12729) •[r17077] [OS-ALL] Ctrl-Shift-Delete shortcut now properly shows the Clear Browsing Data dialog. (Issue: 12413) •[r17134] [OS-ALL] Treat alt-home as a shortcut even when using the numpad and typing in the Omnibox. (Issue: 5372) •[r17144] [OS-ALL] Chrome now ignores the alt on certain keypresses such as alt+(arrows/pgup/pgdn). (Issue: 6992) •[r17207] [OS-ALL] Fixed a bug where Firefox search engines were not imported correctly. (Issue: 12245) •[r17225] [OS-ALL] Fixed issue where non-media types such as text would display a media player. (Issue: 12777) •[r17263] [OS-ALL] Fixed an issue, for RTL users, where dragging and dropping a tab could cause the tab to display off the screen. (Issue: 6223) •[r17265] [OS-ALL] Better cleanup during uninstalls for system level installs. (Issue: 11553) •[r17283] [OS-WINDOWS] Added --print command line argument to print a webpage (Issue: 6942) •[r17302] [OS-ALL] Themes are now enabled by default. •[r17321] [OS-ALL] Added ffmpeg to about:credits. (Issue: 12839) •[r17353] [OS-ALL] In RTL locales, context menus are now positioned correctly to the left of the mouse-click in content area. (Issue: 10827)
Google Chrome 3.0.187.0 has been released to the Dev channel for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Highlights for this release:
Linux: Import passwords from Firefox. (Issue: 11191) On Mac use Keychain for passwords. (Issue: 11745) Fix regression where Omnibox would drop characters during rapid typing. (Issue: 13428) The web inspector is now working again. (Issue 13411) Fix browser hang due to plugin deadlock. (Issue: 12624) --enable-user-scripts is working again. (Issue 13290) Clicking an extension toolstrip no longer selects the first tab. (Issue 13547) Extension buttons now show after install (Issue 13609) Increase the maximum number of cookies to 3000. This matches Firefox. (Issue: 8850) When the contents don't have title, use URL for the name of bookmark entry. (Issue: 5965) Move download shelf from per-tab to per-window. (Issue: 9025) Improved support for Squid proxies. (Issue: 8771) Fixes a flash plugin hang on Google Finance ticker symbols in a background tab. (Issue: 12993)
Lots of crash fixes and code stabilization. All extensions now require signing, all unsigned extensions have been disallowed. Extensions are, at least for the moment, disabled in incognito mode. Fixed a session history bug which prevented proper backward and forward operation for certain sites.
Version Changes: V8 - 1.2.8
[r18038] Chrome will no longer crash after opening and closing TaskManager multiple times. (Issue: 13361) [r18116] Disable extensions in incognito mode. (Issue: 12326) [r18316] Implement signature verification for all extensions. (Issue: 12114) [r18522] Fixed bug with session history, where back and forward would not operate as anticipated on various sites (e.g. iGoogle) (Issues: 12820, 11896)
Google Chrome 2.0.172.33 has been released to the Stable and Beta channels. This release fixes a critical security issue and two other networking bugs.
CVE-2009-2121: Buffer overflow processing HTTP responses
Google Chrome is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in handling certain responses from HTTP servers. A specially crafted response from a server could crash the browser and possibly allow an attacker to run arbitrary code.
More info: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14508 (This issue will be made public once a majority of users are up to date with the fix.)
Severity: Critical. An attacker might be able to run code with the privileges of the logged on user.
Credit: This issue was found by the Google Chrome security team.
Other issues
This release also fixes two other network issues:
- NTLM authentication to Squid proxies fails when trying to connect to HTTPS sites (Issue 8771)
- Browser crash when loading some HTTPS sites (Issue 13226)
