Stable Update: Google Chrome 2.0.172.28
Thursday, May 21, 2009 | 11:00
Labels: Stable updates
We're promoting 2.0.172 from Beta to the Stable channel today.
We've made a lot of changes to stuff you never see, such as a newer version of WebKit for rendering web pages, a new network stack, and improvements to speed up the V8 Javascript engine.
There are some new features like removing Most Visited sites from the New Tab page, form autofill, and full screen mode.
We're also proud to announce that Google Chrome is now available in 50 languages. We added Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya (on Windows Vista only), Tamil, and Telugu in this release.
--Mark Larson
Google Chrome Program Manager
39 comments:
Michael said...
WOOOOO I love chrome~!
1:31 PM, May 21, 2009
Gianni said...
CONGRATULATIONS!
We've been waiting for so long time!
1:48 PM, May 21, 2009
Tom said...
Thanks googlers! Chrome is awesome, been waiting on a stable 2.0 for a long time!
2:40 PM, May 21, 2009
bongobongo said...
Hi
Now, hopefully the bugs related to unbeforeunload can be fixed as well.
see:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4422
I have several web application customers that wants to use Chrome but cannot because of the bug above.
The bug above is in Chrome and Safari browsers.
It is a real shame this is not working... mostly because in the web apps I'm talking about the Chrome browser outperforms both FF and IE by a large margin when it comes to javascript speed.
Time to fix the onbeforeunload related bugs!!!!
3:00 PM, May 21, 2009
Revanth said...
Nice work. So does this mean that the next dev build will be marked 3.0?
3:52 PM, May 21, 2009
divilex said...
Revanth@
The next dev build will be marked 2.1 and then 3.0.
4:13 PM, May 21, 2009
Arek said...
There are some problems with page scrolling. Pages strange shakes when do that.
5:38 PM, May 21, 2009
Marcelo said...
I'm waiting for 3.0 Dev!!!
5:48 PM, May 21, 2009
Meok said...
There's still the problem that you can't remove a single thumbnail if you have less that 4 thumbnails in total. Regardless which one you click it removes all of them.
In a nutshell, the remove thumbnail feature only works when you have 4 or more thumbnails.
7:04 PM, May 21, 2009
Contemporaneo said...
Version for Linux and Mac? June? July?
9:10 PM, May 21, 2009
(-_-)ak said...
Good work!
Anyway, please bring "Zoom" (Text Only) option back to me.
11:23 PM, May 21, 2009
Dennis Martin said...
I am also only waiting for a Linux release and proper extension support. Keep up your great work, Chrome as a browser is excellent and fast!
1:14 AM, May 22, 2009
Sriram said...
Thanks for adding support for Tamil and other Indic languages.
1:45 AM, May 22, 2009
Michael said...
Excitement!
There were enough small bugs that I was hesitant to refer people to chrome. The 2.0.x.x dev releases fixed most of them, but I didn't want to send anyone to buggy betas.
I downloaded the new version and everything that wasn't working before is all better! I'm happy.
1:45 AM, May 22, 2009
Joao said...
Great, I love it, but still two major bugs remain for me (Windows XP SP3):
- it is impossible on an installation level to choose DIFFERENT partition to install, than the default C (it really does suck big time, when you have a limited space, and are installing programs on different locations)
- after update, files of the old version remain in the local settings (aprox 50MB). I guess that it's happening because of some security/stability reasons (abillity to come back to an older version), but I'd prefer it would not be doing so
- well, in connection with the first one - ok, it can be installed on C, I can live withit, but guys, give us at least an option to choose where temporary files will be stored (different partition), so we will be not throwing all that small files on C
Keep up the good work, but give your users more configuration options. In my default browser (Chrome is a secondary one), Opera, I can easily modify location of important files.
3:20 AM, May 22, 2009
Special said...
Its really great news.
5:42 AM, May 22, 2009
ryanbiddulph said...
I like it. Very quick download time and clean design. Well done.
5:51 AM, May 22, 2009
demovik said...
http://preview.test.frontierwebdev.com/frontierwebdev.com/www/company/our_news
There is a problem with scroll-bars in Google Chrome 2.0 and higher
6:25 AM, May 22, 2009
jpbanana said...
Well done folks!
Just one comment: the new zoom in zoom out engine (render one) treat the fonts in a strange manner. In fact readable ones with the Chrome1 (at any zoom) becomes unreadable, or at least dirty, with the Chrome2. By the way... GOOD for the zoom in pics.
Any way I love Google an I a Chorme fan (a converted one, the more dangerous ;-)
8:14 AM, May 22, 2009
Reelizee said...
Text is still not showing up on
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/index.html
other than that, this update is great!
12:13 PM, May 22, 2009
Steven said...
Few problems already occur today.
Here is why I un-installed Chrome.
Pros:
Yes from the first time I used this browser 5 or 6 months ago, it did added on more features to make it more user friendly and improved the speed.
Cons:
Through only this morning's testimony I have found quite a few things I would hope to see improvements in the future.
1. Stability: Only doing my normal morning routine (opening up news in separate taps through Google news and Canada) and posting news on Facebook. It crashed, TWICE. Note: only 6 or 7 taps were opened for the news and Facebook was opened in another window. Had to force close (slow too) no crash log was entered (could not complaint).
2. Cannot recover those web pages that was crashed (Google news refreshes very often, some news are harder to dig back)
3. History? Don't mention it, it doesn't even work when trying to recover those pages I lost.
4. When trying to find a way to complaint about it on Google's page, NOT easily found. If this is only a 8 months product, the voice of tester is very crucial for improvement.
5. When viewing my UBC WebCT Vista page, the side bar disappears?! Something was wrong when incorporating Java
6. It does not recognize IE 8? asks me to download IE 7 for viewing MSN video. (ridiculous)
7. Lack of add-ons that is available through Maxthon 2. Why doesn't Google just buy Maxthon I wonder.
Hopefully, this helps because I really am anticipating a better web browser with similar functions that Maxthon provides.
12:40 PM, May 22, 2009
erez said...
Nice!!! it's good that there is an option to cancel the auto fill!!
keep on doing great job.. :)
5:06 PM, May 22, 2009
Guest said...
--single-process doesn't work
--enable-user-scripts doesn't work
--proxy-server-pac-url doesn't work
file:// type PAC file path doesn't work
I am confused. What's supposed to work in this Chrome. What's not implemented yet or a bug?
9:56 PM, May 22, 2009
Guest said...
Sorry, --enable-user-scripts seems no problem.
10:45 PM, May 22, 2009
Muhammad Atif Riaz said...
Nice you see new development in chrome
2:58 AM, May 23, 2009
Elias said...
12:39 PM, May 23, 2009
Elias said...
where can I download the snapshot for this release?
2:51 PM, May 23, 2009
Arek said...
some bugs on http://www.wp.pl - box with weather isn't showing :/ http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1342,title,Kalisz-PO-i-PiS-psuja-system-konstytucyjny,wid,11155460,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=18148 here right column is under center :/
3:56 PM, May 23, 2009
Elan said...
i just love chrome like anything.....keep up the good work...
7:57 PM, May 23, 2009
Quitch said...
v2 works with Windows 7 without additional launch options, this is something it would be nice to see mentioned in the release notes.
1:48 PM, May 25, 2009
Rex said...
I have gone to Tool /Options / Minor Tweak / Offer to save passwords, then when I go to Show saved passwords the URL I want isn't there and I have it on the start page as one of the Thumbnails. The problem is that I can't get the Offer to save passwords to show or I don't know where to look and the URL I want isn't there, How do I add this. ??
Rex
6:43 PM, May 25, 2009
Tom said...
Im on the latest stable version, however im having some issues with focus. Sometimes when I start chrome, the window appears, but the title bar is grayed out, as if its out of focus, but it becomes the normal blue (on XP) when i click in the window. NOthing serious, but it is annoying and wasnt in the last stable version.
11:47 PM, May 25, 2009
shaun said...
this version have some random crashes...
1:43 AM, May 30, 2009
James said...
May I ask why about:network doesn't work anymore?
6:09 AM, May 30, 2009
Atique said...
Yes. This version has some problems with Javascript. My Yahoo Mail and gmail doesn't display most of the times. I don't know why. Youtube also not working.. I'm waiting for next stable release.
3:11 PM, May 30, 2009
Fred in VT said...
I really enjoy Chrome. The thing I like most is it's ability to store files within, not in the registry. Making it a much more appealing device to browse with. Waiting for weather and other addons now??
Great job folks!!
11:10 AM, May 31, 2009
saycheers said...
Excellent Work Google Team.
I loved the Languages support
However i'm somehow not used to the chrome way of bookmarking the pages.
5:04 AM, June 01, 2009
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11:16 AM, June 01, 2009
Rui Umbelino said...
Hi,
This version, and also all the previous, have an issue when using Chrome behind a proxy.
When I open it I have to type the proxy login a lot of times, because chrome ask for it randomly...
Sometimes I just type once, then cancel the other prompts and use it, but this is really annoying...
In Opera I just type in one tab, and the others, that are open on startup, works well...
Hope you can fix this on next release...
Regards
2:09 AM, June 09, 2009
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