Google Chrome Releases: Dev update: Bug fixes

Dev update: Bug fixes

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | 12:04

Labels: Dev updates

Google Chrome 3.0.190 has been released to the Dev channel (Mac: 190.0, Windows: 190.1, Linux: 190.2).

Highlights in this release:

Mostly bug and crash fixes.
Linux: Fixed the browser crashing because of missing fonts. (Issue 13007)
Lots of progress filling in missing features on Mac and Linux. Random samples:

Linux: HTTP authentication now works.
Linux: Render the contents of tabs while dragging.
Linux: You can import and export bookmarks.
Mac: You can download more than one item in a tab.
Mac: A (preliminary) download shelf at the bottom of the window shows your downloads.
Mac: Added the Restore Closed Tabs item to the File menu.

The --enable-monitor-profile flag converts web pages from sRGB to your current default monitor profile. It does not handle embedded color profiles in images. (Issue 4938)
The 'Print selection' option on the Print dialog works on Windows. (Issue 1682)

Known issues:

You cannot drag bookmarklets (javascript: URLs) to the bookmarks bar. (Issue 12290)
When you install an extension, two separate toolstrips appear. The problem will go away when you restart the browser. (Issue 14941)

More details are available in the release notes and the log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.

Mark Larson

Google Chrome Program Manager

73 comments:

gsctt said...: Print Selection! Uhuuuuul!; 12:24 PM, June 24, 2009
Dan Kegel said...: One more notable bug fix on Linux:
autoupdate no longer breaks running browsers. (i.e. "New Tab"
continues working properly if
your system updates chrome while you're in the middle of using it.); 12:35 PM, June 24, 2009
James said...: I've been waiting for the print selection option. Thanks Google.; 12:37 PM, June 24, 2009
andre said...: I'd like to see some progress on the sciencedirekt bug (8955). It's still in the "Unconfirmed" status. I keep trying and it always hangs up to the point where I have to kill Chrome.; 12:43 PM, June 24, 2009
Lumo said...: Excellent, even bloomberg.com shows up without an immediate crash. ;-); 12:47 PM, June 24, 2009
Jeetendra said...: When I click on about chrome to update it, I get a message 'update server not available'. :(; 1:20 PM, June 24, 2009
Emperor said...: It's working perfect with bloomberg now. So far, so good.; 1:53 PM, June 24, 2009
voxl said...: Thanks for all the hard work! Really fun watching Chrome for Mac take its baby steps to greatness.; 2:20 PM, June 24, 2009
Tomo said...: gif images are not animated. Is it just me or is this general problem? Otherwise, I didn't experience any other problem.; 4:29 PM, June 24, 2009
Blewby said...: Great Release!!! I can now Print Selection! Thank You All!; 4:51 PM, June 24, 2009
austin_web_developer said...: WOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
css now viewable from source ... frickin' RAD!
Thank you so much guys.
Very much appreciated
:D; 4:51 PM, June 24, 2009
Tomo said...: gif problem confirmed. I'm on my second machine (XP SP2), and I have same problem ... Any gif image on any page is standing still ...

If you find time, please fix this minor problem.

Thanks very much

Tomislav; 4:58 PM, June 24, 2009
Revanth said...: Thank you for fixing the user scripts...again. I know that you devs do at least some testing before releasing a dev build. Hopefully, you can add user scripts to the list of things should be working before releasing a new build. Hate when it keeps breaking every other build.

Keep up the good work. Chrome is coming along nicely.; 5:02 PM, June 24, 2009
Alex said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 6:01 PM, June 24, 2009
Alex said...: +1 for GIFs and "update server not available" (~since 3.0.183.1)

I have some suggestions :
-a permanent status bar, like the favorite bar, to see link's url ;
-the ability open files directly, and not save them every time (useful for installers) ;
-have an image download folder ;
-a button to easilly reopen closed tab, like in opera ;

Else, continue :); 6:04 PM, June 24, 2009
Alex said...: I forgot :
-some favicon display bad since 3.0.183.1 (maybe already fixed but cache is corrupted)
-if a window is created with a small size, the "Google" mark appear on buttons (seven); 6:11 PM, June 24, 2009
Farooq said...: GIF animations are indeed not working anymore.; 9:09 PM, June 24, 2009
Sebastiaan said...: Animated GIF not working for me too.; 9:47 PM, June 24, 2009
neologix said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 10:30 PM, June 24, 2009
neologix said...: apparently, packaging method of extensions was updated, otherwise no problems!; 10:46 PM, June 24, 2009
Tareq Mazen said...: Google, the things you are fixing now and the updates that you are doing make us feel in the beginning of the internet explorer and Netscape in the 90's, don't treat us like kids and post a fix for the print or any old things that is already solved in the other browser since 90's.; 10:49 PM, June 24, 2009
MeatPiston said...: having the same issues with animated gifs.

And, just noticed the themes section under options..
(waiting some more info)

Great work guys n__n
keep it up
(please); 11:03 PM, June 24, 2009
Lajos said...: Yup animgifs are permanently frozen with this version and some transparent favicons are still fubar.

Otherwise it feels even snappier than usual.; 11:46 PM, June 24, 2009
Sanat said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 1:33 AM, June 25, 2009
RecepYaşar said...: pop up blocker not works properly. it is always blocking.; 3:27 AM, June 25, 2009
Michel Bohms said...: Is it already possible to give any indication when we can expect google bookmarks integration ? (or said otherwise: when I can uninstall Firefox).

thanks for info,
a patient user; 4:55 AM, June 25, 2009
Tomo said...: @ Tareq Mazen: Well, Google chrome is only One year old browser... Non of the todays browsers like Opera 10, Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4 were not stable and feature full in the first year of appearance. It takes some time to build a solid browser. My opinion is that Google is doing a great job. And day after day, build after build Chrome is more stable (ex. 3.0.187.0) and feature full ...

I would like to see Chrome just rock stable with no extra features.. Later on - everything is possible and doable :)

keep up great work google guys :); 4:58 AM, June 25, 2009
fastharry™ said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 5:05 AM, June 25, 2009
Alex said...: An export settings options would be cool (to export saved passwords, favorites, ..) :); 7:24 AM, June 25, 2009
Blewby said...: Print screen works YEAHHHH!

Favicons are still awkward.
animated .gifs are not working
the Google logo is hidden behind the minimize button.

Other then that..very stable release! Thank you...love the promptness from the Dev channel!; 5:27 PM, June 25, 2009
Longasc said...: I have a few corrupted favicons, too.

I do not know why, but wordpress blogs and some other websites display garbled favicons. Sometimes they display correctly when I press refresh, but they do not save with the proper icon in bookmarks.

I cleared the cache completely but it did not work.; 4:55 AM, June 26, 2009
Kate said...: Just a "me too!" with the animated GIF problem...; 8:56 PM, June 26, 2009
god said...: 3.0.190.4, confirm on the
animated .gifs are not working
the Google logo is hidden behind the minimize button.

btw, somebody want a theme? here they are: http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/web/googlechrome/
just check themes version before you download =); 11:04 PM, June 26, 2009
Tomo said...: I've updated Google chrome to 3.0.190.4 version. But I can't see if anything is changed... Chrome crashed once and gif problem is still around.

Any words from developers? Change log?; 3:40 AM, June 27, 2009
houtxone said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 6:36 AM, June 27, 2009
houtxone said...: Same here, I just updated to 3.0.190.4. No details posted yet, however.; 6:40 AM, June 27, 2009
Skiv said...: yup, same here Updated, but no changes noticed; 7:13 AM, June 27, 2009
Blewby said...: Mine auto updated to 3.0.190.4 also and I see no changes...Favicons are messed up, animated .gifs are not working.

One other thing I noticed..Is when I am in Ebay..and go to hit Pay Now..Chrome has an issue entering Paypal...something like "your payment cannot be made at this time"...however I log into IE and hit pay now and I go to the Paypal checkout page.

Also I have to submit THIS entery with IE as when I try to post here with Chrome...I get "We're sorry, but we were unable to complete your request."; 9:23 AM, June 27, 2009
Mehdi said...: Yes, got updated to .190.4; no updates here, though!; 10:21 AM, June 27, 2009
joesixgig said...: I'm having many crashes with this version (3.0.190.1). Open say ten tabs, close a few, and pretty much every session I get a 'whoa, Chrome crashed' or so. Seems to always happen when closing a tab, and tentatively I'd say on more complicated pages (Gizmodo main page). Had the same problem on the previous dev version. Anyone else? -Joe

System config: Vista x64 SP1, Lenovo x61 tablet, 4Gb.; 11:32 AM, June 27, 2009
Mehdi said...: Can anyone help me with Google Reader? It just says Loading on top and nothing.. Facing the problem since 3 builds. Working on Firefox and IE8.; 11:47 PM, June 27, 2009
black said...: animated gifs are frozen.; 9:05 AM, June 28, 2009
Mehdy said...: Animated GIF are not shown animated. Just first frame is shown.; 11:34 PM, June 28, 2009
dmt said...: Chrome not working with http://www.vader.se/prognosidag/_borlange/borlange_9.html#; 3:48 AM, June 29, 2009
Tom said...: Getting a lot of cpu usage by flash plugin on youtube. Current stable version 2.0.172.33.; 12:15 PM, June 29, 2009
Code said...: GIFs not working here either.; 12:35 PM, June 30, 2009
Fabio_Rulez said...: the issue with gif is fixed issue 14805 and the patch will be implemented in next dev channel... i think tomorrow or at least on thursday

the favicons issue is not yet closed... i think won't be fixed on next dev; 3:38 PM, June 30, 2009
Fabio_Rulez said...: I posted a wrong link... here is the right one...

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14805; 3:40 PM, June 30, 2009
Yossi said...: Animated .gif do not animate.; 7:16 PM, June 30, 2009
vhanla said...: Does http://src.chromium.org/svn/branches/191/src/chrome/tools/extensions/chromium_extension.py still work?

I can't pack an extension without closing chrome first.
So I thought that the python script to pack extensions would come handy, but it seems it doesn't work, neither it generates the KEY file....; 8:21 PM, June 30, 2009
jstrx said...: chiming in with the rest to say animated gifs only showing first frame; 9:35 PM, June 30, 2009
krtulmay said...: @vhanla, the chromium_extension.py is not used anymore. Also, you *must* close all running Chromes before packing an extension. See the details at: http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/extensions/packaging; 10:05 PM, June 30, 2009
Levi said...: Animated GIF problem confirmed here as well. They are stuck on the first image.; 10:20 PM, June 30, 2009
vhanla said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 11:40 PM, June 30, 2009
Sebastiaan said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 4:51 AM, July 01, 2009
Sebastiaan said...: The newest Chromium trunk builds support animated GIF files again.

The favicon problem has been solved, and the Chrome home page has been changed.; 4:53 AM, July 01, 2009
yusher said...: hey sebastiaan which version did you mean? im using chromium 3.0.192.0 (19722)and still its not working :S; 4:57 AM, July 01, 2009
Sebastiaan said...: I've got 3.0.192.0 (19721)

What OS do you use?
I have Vista Ultimate; 5:04 AM, July 01, 2009
yusher said...: This post has been removed by the author.; 5:12 AM, July 01, 2009
krtulmay said...: Well, there is this bug for chrome.exe to pack extensions silently as part of non-
interactive scripts:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14732

You get the source code, you can start here:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers; 5:52 AM, July 01, 2009
Anonymous said...: The new tab page from the latest chromium build looks quite decent. It's basically a combination of the current new tab page and speed dial.; 12:26 PM, July 01, 2009
pradeep said...: Nice information provide by you.
You are doing very well job! keep it up.

cyprus property; 11:33 PM, July 01, 2009
Mehdi said...: No updates yet. =/; 10:03 AM, July 03, 2009
Revanth said...: The malware protection is giving a lot of false positives, most of them are just because it detects a site trying to serve a harmless ad. For example, yahoo finance is having this problem from time to time.; 10:46 AM, July 03, 2009
Meok said...: The DEV Release is cancelled for this week.My guess is that we'll get something early next week.; 12:53 PM, July 03, 2009
Lajos said...: There will be a few new features, so stay tuned folks. :); 1:37 PM, July 03, 2009
Aleš said...: Acid3 linktest failed is now fixed (r19910)!; 12:04 AM, July 04, 2009
Mehdy said...: Intensive hard disk activity when resuming from hibernate or stand by. this is an old problem with chrome.; 12:12 PM, July 04, 2009
Diego said...: Over 80% of the times i check on YouTube's videos, it doesnt load with Chrome (not loading the bar with play, stop, etc.).
I have to refresh one or two times, so the "play" appears and can watch the video.
This is an old problem too.
Anyway, congratz for the good job so far =)

(sry for english mistakes ^^); 12:20 PM, July 04, 2009
beaver said...: Accept bug with the favicons, it would be nice to see fixed rounded corners rendering... :); 2:50 PM, July 04, 2009
Alexi said...: I can't wait for the next release. I'm confident new features will arrive on the next release. Way to go, Google!; 8:21 AM, July 05, 2009
gsctt said...: My browser was updated to version 3.0.191.3. But don't get visible changes. Someone too?; 3:31 PM, July 06, 2009
ghcharters said...: 3.0.191.3 updated here. Animated GIFs now work.; 3:34 PM, July 06, 2009

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