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Google Rolls Out Chrome 7
An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released a new stable version of its internet browser, Chrome 7. The latest update is part of Google's promise in July to release a new stable version of Chrome about every six weeks. Chrome 7 comes with hundreds of bug fixes, an updated HTML5 parser, the File API, and directory upload via input tag. It is available in the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 'The main focus was the hundreds of bug fixes,' Jeff Chang, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post."
Why isn't it 6.x? Does this mean in 6 weeks they'll give us 8.0? Whatever happened to using the numbers AFTER the decimal point, especially for releases that concentrate mostly on bug-fixes?
- Spryguy
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Just how the hell did such a bug infected version get released to begin with?
A test suite that guarantees 100% coverage is called formal verification. As I understand it, this is far too labor-intensive for commercial off-the-shelf PC software. So there's a trade-off: you can write a bigger test suite, not ship a product, and bring in no revenue; or you can fix defects and add them to the test suite as they are discovered. For decades, the latter has been sufficient for PC software used by the general public.
It's Chrome's fault because scripts can't run before page content is loaded.
I use the AdThwart extention . Works good for me but your milage may vary.
Privoxy works very well for me.
I don't see anymore adds with the default setting with Adblock for chrome than I do for adblock plus for firefox.
Granted, this is just my experience and I am sure that you have many example that you could share but felt that there was no need to.
I don't see any adds on slashdot, fox, cnn, gmail, sourceforge, rapidshare, imdb, etc in chrome.
Uhhh, it _does_ stop downloads for about 6 months now, is damn effective for me (I don't see ads at all?), and it works with Flash ads (it uses the same easyfilter as ABP on FF).
Try it again??
I don't see anymore adds with the default setting with Adblock for chrome than I do for adblock plus for firefox.
Granted, this is just my experience and I am sure that you have many example that you could share but felt that there was no need to.
I don't see any adds on slashdot, fox, cnn, gmail, sourceforge, rapidshare, imdb, etc in chrome.
Rest assured that although you don't see them, you are downloading many of them. And being tracked by them ;)
On Linux, Chrome uses the native (GTK, I believe) Print dialog, which includes a Print Preview button.
The Linux version listens to DBUS events, so it knows whether the system thinks it is online or not.
Finally! A year of moderation! Ready for 2019?
I think there is one: Navigate to "chrome://plugins" and deactivate the "Google Update" plugin.
Bullshit. Unless you're calling the Chrome Adblock author a liar.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom
"New in version 2.0: Ads are actually blocked from downloading now, instead of just being removed after the fact!"
Privoxy is far inferior: it's slower, it requires more setup, it's not as aware of all the different ads out there, being without adblock-like update channels, and it's not as interactive, being separate from the GUI.