New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video

adeelarshad82 writes "Google developers are always working on and updating Chrome in three channels — Stable, Beta, and Developer — in increasing positions on the bleeding-edge scale. Today the company thought changes to the Beta channel warranted a post on the main Google Blog. The advances range from the superficial addition of themes for customizing the browser's window borders to even faster speed under the hood to internal support for HTML 5 tags such as <video> and 'web workers,' which allows the browser to divvy processing work among sub-threads."

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Chrome 3 Theora decoder FAIL

[David Gerard]

Chrome 3 will include a Theora decoder ... a known broken and crappy one from an old FFmpeg build that can't cope with Thusnelda-encoded files, i.e. the close-to-H.264-quality encoder that Xiph and Mozilla have been working on.

They know about the bug ... but can't be bothered fixing it.

So sites with lots of Theora video will have to browser-sniff and suggest Firefox 3.5 to those with Chrome.

How to snatch defeat from the jaws of cluefulness ...

(note also that Chris DiBona mysteriously vanished from the WHATWG list after his FUD was refuted. It would be interesting to hear why.)