This week's changes for the dev channel focus on bug fixes as well as a new defense for cross-site scripting attacks.

Version: 4.0.207.0 for Mac and Linux.

All:

• Reflective XSS filter for better security against a common attack.  See the mailing list post for more information.
• Fixed extraneous horizontal scrollbars in Gmail (Issue: 7976)

Mac:

• [r25560], [r25475], [r25478] Tweaks to the Omnibox look.
• [r25182] Fix zoom (green maximize) button. (Issue: 17472)
• [r25380] Adjust color spaces so that Mac Chrome renders colors properly. (Issues: 20552, 19951)
• [r25167] Don't show favicons or throbbers for the New Tab page on the Mac. (Issues: 13337, 20378)
• Uploading images with "Hide extension" set does now work. (Issue: 20857)

Linux:

• [r25373] Add external protocol dialog for Linux. (Issue: 20731)
• [r25100] Handle external protocols, e.g. mailto: links. (Issue: 20696)
• [r25125] Fix crash when switching to a tab containing audio/video elements. (Issues: 20138, 19677)

Extensions:

• [r25293] Added an auto-update now button to chrome://extensions page. (Issue: 17853)
• [r25253] Fix crash on Mac when pressing "load unpacked extension" in chrome://extensions page. (Issue: 20860)
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More details about additional changes are available in the svn 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.

Jonathan Conradt

Engineering Program Manager