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Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the ooh-shiny dept.

ddfall writes "Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux — the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms. Chrome 5.0.375.55 is available to download from google.com/chrome. Users who currently have Chrome installed can use the built-in update function."

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  1. Sweet... by ak_hepcat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe now they'll "officially" release Android 2.2 with chrome built-in...

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  2. yay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to be looking forward to this day; I used Chrome until the day my http:// disappeared. Due to that, I'm sticking with Firefox.

    1. Re:yay? by laddiebuck · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Rather agree with you except the bit about snapping to word boundaries. If you complain about that, you vastly underrate its importance. I get that with xterms, not text entry fields, but I tell you, double-clicking on the beginning word and right-clicking on an ending word (or blank at the end of the line) to select is so much damn easier than trying to drag the mouse so precisely from the beginning of the selection to the end. Just that way of selecting has probably saved me days of computer time, and that's with me very rarely using the mouse (in an xterm). It's one of the only things I think a mouse is useful for in an xterm.

  3. Chrome vs Chromium on Ubuntu? by jaavaaguru · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why would I download Chrome when I already have Chromium which gets updated automatically by Update Manager, remaining consistent with everything else on my laptop?

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  4. Sidebars? by simp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does Chrome now support a bookmark sidebar? With the wide-screen TFTs everywhere these days a bookmark sidebar has become a must-have for me. I cannot stand bookmark pull-down menus. And to make things worse Chrome has put the default Bookmark menu in the upper- right hand corner of the screen, which for some reason is a place of the screen where my cursor never is.

  5. Re:this is going to be by ChipMonk · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The whole german wifi debacle is making this company just as hot to handle as facebook.

    I don't think so.

    I do. The common mantra seems to be, "Enough privacy to get people to stop complaining." Google, Facebook, Myspace, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe are all guilty of this thinking, and they're showing no sign of letting up.

    Some may argue that "people" should be replaced with "governments," but that's a pointless swap. Governments are made of people, and people will complain about privacy abuses to governments, knowing full well that it won't do any good to complain to the abusers.

  6. Re:Vertical tabs? by mugurel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not that absurd. Having a widescreen monitor (as is common nowadays), my experience is that there is very little vertical space for web content after subtracting space for tool/status/menu bars. At the same time, there's lots of empty horizontal space. Because of that, I switched to vertical tabs in Firefox recently and am pleased with it.

  7. uh by revxul · · Score: 2, Interesting

    4 months? What exactly warrants/constitutes a full version number increase for Google?

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