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Google Rolls Out Chrome 7

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bright-and-shiny dept.

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."

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  1. 100% coverage is expensive by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:AdBlock by AndrewNeo · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's Chrome's fault because scripts can't run before page content is loaded.