Google Chrome 2.0.172.31 Stable (10 Jun 09)  

Posted by Srivatsan

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites; Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source software including WebKit and Mozilla Firefox) to cater for the changing needs of users and acknowledging that today most web sites aren't web pages but web applications. Design goals include stability, speed, security and a clean, simple and efficient user interface.



Features:

* New FTP implementation: use --new-ftp
* Experimental Bookmark Menu: use --bookmark-menu
* HTML5 Web Workers: use --enable-web-workers
* Implement SSL renegotiation. (Issue: 6893)
* Pressing the Del key while a item is selected in the form suggestion popup deletes that suggestion from the DB.
* WebKit version 530.4
* V8 version 1.1.1.4

Fixes:

* Add command line switch "--new-ftp" for new portable FTP (Issue: 4965)
* Add the directory listing code for the new portable FTP (Issue: 4965)
* SSL improvements. (Issue: 8706)
* Fix excessive CPU when scrolling Flash. (Issue: 8653)
* Fix crash on showing info bubble. (Issue: 8854)
* Aligning text to the right, especially RTL languages. (Issue: 1845)
* Fix dragging a Chrome window which has a single tab by the tab itself. (Issues: 2827, 8287)
* Do correct hit testing for context menu items. (Issue: 8100)
* Add support for progressive JPEGs with MIME type image/pjpeg. (Issue: 2104)

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* Ability to remove thumbnails from the New Tab Page (feature still in development). (Issue: 685)
* Added "Undo Tab Close" and "New Tab" to the context menu on the tab bar. (Issue: 2144)
* It is no longer possible to cut or copy from a password text-field. (Issue: 9425)
* Ctrl+Shift+Arrow allows change in text direction in RTL UIs. Also now support Ctrl+Shift text alignment based on which side of the keyboard those keys are pressed.(Issues: 9762, 9763)

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