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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. Google is catching on fast by microbee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just look at the version numbers. It's already 5! On the contrary Firefox is still lagging behind with 3.6.

    1. Re:Google is catching on fast by Kabloink · · Score: 5, Funny

      Microsoft has both of them beat with IE 6.

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    2. Re:Google is catching on fast by phil+reed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...

      Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?

      Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.

      Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?

      Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?

      Marty DiBergi: I don't know.

      Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?

      Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.

      Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.

      Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?

      Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.

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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 Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Parent is not a troll. It's a valid complaint. Displaying the entire URL, including the protocol, is absolutely the standard and should remain that way.

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    2. Re:yay? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because users who want to know what their browser is doing want to see it, that's why. No other justification is needed.

      One of the commenters on the CNET story on the issue compared it to the Windows practice of hiding file extensions, which is a good analogy. We know how well that worked out (click here on mysterious_attachment.doc{.exe} and see what happens!) Sure, the protocol name may be gabble to most users, but at least the information's there, right out front. And occasionally it even leads them to educate themselves, asking a more technically knowledgeable friend, "What is that http thing, anyway?"

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  3. Chome 6 by jbeaupre · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for Chrome 6 ... only because I like the sound of hexavalent chromium.

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    1. Re:Chome 6 by ElKry · · Score: 5, Informative

      You don't have to wait, I'm posting this from Chrome 6.0.408.1

      Of course, you're going to have to use the dev channel, and get ready for a hell of a bumpy ride...

  4. this is going to be by nimbius · · Score: 5, Insightful

    a hard sell for me. The entire point of linux and me switching to it was the privacy and security. What is my incentive to switch from a floss browser on a floss OS to a nonfree browser (or not as free as id like to see it) which saps my bandwidth on the backend to report my surfing habits back to google.

    and no, i cant trust that it isnt communicating with google or wont decide to at some point in the future. The whole german wifi debacle is making this company just as hot to handle as facebook.

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    1. Re:this is going to be by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Facebook went from being a closed network to an open one with several changes to the privacy controls, that awful Beacon feature, etc. They never back down until there's immense pressure. Usually even then they don't back down entirely. And it's all so they can monetize their site.

      Google made a mistake with their wifi collection software and quickly admitted to it when asked about it, then came up with a plan to destroy the data.

      How are these two things even remotely similar?

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  5. 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.

  6. can't install behind proxy by FunkyELF · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'll keep using Firefox as it is actually possible to download and install it.
    Since the day Google released Chrome you haven't been able to install their crappy 550k installer if you're behind a proxy.

  7. Re:Obligatory Adblock Reply by Nysul · · Score: 5, Informative

    Adblock for Chrome downloads the ads, then blocks them. I don't know how you could not notice this, the Chrome ad-block solution is half-assed at best.