[The Joker]

At just a few days after updating the Beta development milestone of its open source browser, Google has also refreshed the bits available to developers. At the start of this week, users were able to download and start test-driving Chrome Beta 4.0.249.64 for Windows. As of January 14th, 2010, the Dev channel release of Google Chrome was updated to Build 4.0.295.0. But unlike the Beta flavor of the open source browser, Build 4.0.295.0 is also available for users of Linux and Mac OS X.

“The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.295.0 for all platforms,” said Orit Mazor, from the Google Chrome team, noting changes specific for Chrome running on the latest iteration of the Windows client, namely Windows 7. “Win7 - Add profile info to app id associated with shortcuts and window; append profile info to win7 app id; "Don't show "Did you mean" infobars on single-word searches for users whose ISP or DNS provider displays custom error pages for nonexistent hostnames".”

There are additional fixes introduced for the Chrome versions designed for Linux and Mac OS X. At the same time there are a number of issues that have survived past this release and that Google made public. Most affected will be users running Mac OS X, which are bound to stumble across problems involving the Bookmark manager for Mac, the close button and crashes within the Inspector. “You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here,” Mazor added.

In tandem with boosting the Dev channel release of Chrome to 4.0.295.0, the mountain View based search giant also refreshed the Google Chrome Frame. “Google Chrome Frame has been updated to version 4.0.295.0. All users should be updated automatically. This release fixes several of the most common crashes and (…) issues,” Mazor said.

The latest release of Google Chrome is available for download here.

>> Source: Softpedia

[Subject Delta]

Thanks for the heads up

*updates*

[The Joker]

Download Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 Beta


Mozilla undoubtedly stole the show this week as far as the open source community and users of open source browsers are concerned, with the release of Firefox 3.6. On the same day when the minor update to Firefox 3.5 became available for the general public, Google kicked up a notch its own breed of open source browser. Early adopters that are following the development process of Google Chrome will be able to start test-driving a new Beta release, Build 4.0.249.78. However, this is only valid for testers running on Windows, as Mac OS X and Linux users did not get an update of Chrome Beta.

"The Beta channel has been updated to 4.0.249.78 for Windows. This release contains the following changes: updated UI translations; a crash which occurred, on Windows XP, when the translation extension was installed. More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions," revealed , Google Chrome program manager.

4.0.249.78 is the second update to be released on the Google Chrome Beta channel this year. In the first half of January, the Mountain View-based search giant offered testers running the open source browser on Windows Build 4.0.249.64. At that time, the Beta update was designed to expand the functionality of extensions, like the addition of internationalization support, on top of fixing a few bugs.

Still, considering the pace at which Google has swapped major versions of Chrome since launch, the Mountain View company is bound to close in on the date when it unveils a new stable release for its browser. Next in line is, of course, Google Chrome 4.0, after version 3.0 graduated to the Stable channel in 2009. In this regard, Mozilla is moving a tad slowly, with over half a year necessary for Firefox to evolve from 3.5 to 3.6.

>> Source: Softpedia

[artvandelay]

Version 4.0.302.3 dev is out now

[artvandelay]

Google Chrome Version 5.0.307.1 dev is available. Seems to have fixed some issues I was having with the TTA Board not rendering correctly.

[The Joker]

Interesting tidbit of information. Chrome 4 and beyond support Greasemonkey scripts by default.