Chrome Releases: Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 | 09:56

The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.307.1 for Linux

Linux

[r37017] Preliminary desktop notifications support. (Why not libnotify? See our technical FAQ.) (Issue: 23954)
[r37193] Use GTK+ selection colors when using GTK theme mode. (Issue: 25831)
[r37201] We now also will load plugins from ~/.config/$PRODUCT_NAME/Plugins. (Issue: 22261)
Improved complex text support, fixing a number of bugs in Hebrew/Arabic/Hindi/etc. display.

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revision.

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

Orit Mazor
Google Chrome

Dark_Wolf said...: Any chance of an rpm dev channel soon? Pretty please?; 12:08 PM, February 02, 2010
barnaby said...: What he said :); 12:18 PM, February 02, 2010
yurkennis said...: Log of all revisions links to a pre-previous 4.x changelog, not the 5.0.307's.; 3:18 PM, February 02, 2010
Bruno Cabral said...: For Brazilians is perfect(evil 300Kbps [:(]).; 5:13 AM, February 03, 2010
edyb said...: When you install the beta rpm, it also adds a repo for updates. In that repo are two packages: google-chrome-beta and google-chrome-unstable. Just remove the beta one and install the unstable one ;).; 5:19 AM, February 03, 2010
Helio said...: - cant get the new chrome from the apt repositories like the explanation here ( http://goo.gl/1C1A )

- if I point my browser to the link ( http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ ) I get a not found page :-P; 6:01 AM, February 03, 2010
Pino said...: latest build can't play youtube videos; 6:53 AM, February 03, 2010
Paolo A. said...: I can't see pages like http://www.pops2.com/mappaStradale.php . It's all white!; 11:00 AM, February 03, 2010
tutuca said...: Are the 64bit builds up? I'm not getting the upgrade on ubuntu; 5:01 PM, February 03, 2010
Brian said...: 5.0.307.1 for Linux feels really fast - noticeably faster on Ubuntu 32 than Beta; 5:39 PM, February 03, 2010
sp said...: Agreed with Brian.
I'm on Ubuntu 9.04, and the 5.0.307.1 feels much faster.; 12:16 AM, February 04, 2010

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