Chrome Releases

Dev Channel - Bug Fixes, WebKit Merges, and Full Screen Mode

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.166.1. The highlights for this week:
New

Preliminary full screen support has been added (UI still in progress).
Turkish and Estonian spell checkers are available.
Additional malware data collection for users opted-in to sending usage statistics and crash reports.
We now perform HTTP authentication over a keep-alive connection.

Fixes

Fixed a regression where it was not possible to drag a tab between two windows.
Fixed issue related to the input method editor (IME) and the distance/ location to the current text area after scrolling.
Double clicking no longer maximizes the window.
Fixed everything listed as Known Issues last week.
The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Known Issues

Download shelf will *not* warn about dangerous .exe files (Issue: 7971).
Windows 7 users will experience issues importing favorites from IE and setting Chrome as the default browser.
Repaint issues on reloaded page after a crash (Issue: 8065).
Javascript debugger doesn't come up for constrained windows (Issue: 8071).
Sad face not displayed after a plugin crash (Issue: 7673).

Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.
Please report bugs at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list.
Anthony Laforge, PMPChrome Program Manager

Dev Update: Bug Fixes

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.164.0. This is a bug fix release. Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.
You might notice 8 Indic languages are now available for the Google Chrome user interface: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya*, Tamil, and Telugu. (*Note: Oriya does not work in Windows XP.) This is just the initial integration of support for these languages. The translations are not complete and haven't been finalized. Please don't file bugs for these languages, yet.
Changes

Fixed the problems with Facebook's sidebar layout.
Fixed last week's 'crash on some Hebrew and Arabic sites' known issue.
Fixed several problems with making Google Chrome the default browser on Windows Vista.
The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Known IssuesJust so you know (and don't have to spend your time filing a bug when you run into these):

After scrolling, input method editor (IME) windows appear far from the current text area. (Issue 7651)
The Web Inspector (right click > Inspect Element) does not work. (Issue 7800)
Issues with commands on pop-up windows: the context menu has most commands disabled, reload and view source do not work. (Issues 7615, 7635, 7804)
Saving web pages does not work. Save as.. (Ctrl+S) appears to save to your Downloads folder, but it creates a file in the Application\2.0.164.0 directory. (Issue 7616)
Some pop-ups and tabs load pages, but the title remains 'Untitled' and the address bar shows 'about:blank' as the URL. (Issue 7625)

Let us know about any issues you find by filing a bug. --Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager

Dev Update: Bug Fixes

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.162.0. Thanks to work done in WebKit, Google Chrome can use web fonts (read more about it here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten ), including dynamic fonts for complex scripts. If you are a web developer this is huge news for you.

New features:

Web Font support, including dynamic and complex scripts
http://crbug.com/6688 Command line switch for the location of the disk cache.

Known Issues:

http://crbug.com/7570 Some sites in right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic crash the renderer

Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

Jonathan Conradt

Engineering Program Manager
Mountain View, CA

Dev Update: Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and a V8 Update

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.160.0. The highlights for this week include a good number crash fixes and UI presentation and behavioral clean-up:

Fixes a number of tab dragging related crashes.
Fixes issue where Chrome could not be set as the default browser.
Add support for UA spoofing, and spoof Safari's UA string when loading URLs
Improving UI presentation in Vista and XP
We now generate a proper file name when dragging an image off the browser on to the desktop
V8 has been updated to version 0.4.9.3, read more in the V8 changelog.
Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.
Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome Program Manager

Stable and Beta Update: Incognito Mode Fix

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Google Chrome's Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 1.0.154.48.
The change in 1.0.154.46 to fix Hotmail caused a problem for users in Incognito mode trying to access sites which depend on the User-Agent header. This header identifies the type of browser making the request and should be part of every request, even in Incognito mode. This issue is now fixed. There is also a security fix for a bug (analogous to CVE-2007-3670) where command line arguments could be injected and executed by getting a user to click a link in certain other browsers.
See http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/release-notes for the release notes.
Jonathan ConradtEngineering Program Manager
Mountain View, CA

Stable, Beta update: Yahoo! Mail and Security Fixes

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Google Chrome's Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 1.0.154.46. (Note, we won't have a different release for the Beta channel until we have something Beta-worthy come out of the Dev channel in February.)

This release fixes issues with two popular webmail providers:

Sending mail from Yahoo! Mail works again.
Windows Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix, we're deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with mail.live.com.

If you've been using the --user-agent switch to use Hotmail, you can remove the switch from your shortcuts with this release.

This release also includes two security updates. The release notes have the full list of changes.

Security Updates

Work around for "Adobe Reader Plugin Open Parameters Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability"
CVE: CVE-2007-0048, CVE-2007-0045
Google Chrome now refuses requests for javascript: URLs in Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) requests from the Adobe Reader plugin. Adobe is aware of this issue and has helped us develop this mitigation while they work on a fix for all users.

Severity: Moderate. This could allow a PDF document to run scripts on arbitrary sites.
Credit: Thanks to Michael Schmidt for reporting this responsibly to Google.

Javascript Same-Origin Bypass
CVE: CVE-2009-0276
A bug in the V8 JavaScript engine could allow bypassing same-origin checks in certain situations.

Severity: High. A malicious script in a page could read the full URL of another frame, and possibly other attributes or data from another frame in a different origin. This could disclose sensitive information from one website to a third party.
Credit: Found internally by Google.

--Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager

Dev update: Bug fixes and scrolling improvements

Monday, January 26, 2009

Google Chrome's Dev channel has been updated to 2.0.159.0. The main changes to highlight are:

Improved scrolling on pages with multiple plugins.
Fixed (mostly) the problem of tabs suddenly going to the smallest size.
Fixed downloads going to the wrong folder.
Fixed Gears not loading sometimes.
Removed the option to import bookmarks from Google bookmarks. We think we can improve this feature, so we're pulling it out until we come up with something better.
Added a way to remove sites from the 'Never remember passwords' list. Go to Options > Minor Tweaks > Passwords and click Exceptions.

Find about the Dev channel and how to subscribe at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

The complete list of changes is available in the release notes.

--Mark Larson, Google Chrome Program Manager

Chrome Releases

Dev Channel - Bug Fixes, WebKit Merges, and Full Screen Mode

Dev Update: Bug Fixes

Dev Update: Bug Fixes

Dev Update: Bug fixes, UI tweaks, and a V8 Update

Stable and Beta Update: Incognito Mode Fix

Stable, Beta update: Yahoo! Mail and Security Fixes

Dev update: Bug fixes and scrolling improvements

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