Slashdot Mirror
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."
I read this news item and said to myself "Oh, Chrome 7 is out. Maybe I should go get it."
Then I realized I already had it. It updated while I slept and I was reading the article in Chrome 7.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
Yet it still doesn't have an equivalent to AdBlock Plus.
And for the Chrome-heads who point out AdBlock, it is a good start but still nowhere near as effective. It lets many ads through, it still downloads and just hides a large chunk of ads, and it does not seem to stop flash ads at all.
I really start to get scared when a developer releases an update to a product and starts off by declaring that there are "hundreds of bug fixes".
Can you name even a single large software product (other than ultra-expensive avionics) that provably doesn't have hundreds of bugs?
It would nice if it improves Youtube playback. It worked at some point, but then after some mandatory sneaky update it broke. For those of you that haven't experienced Youtube breakage: you get a completely incorrect error message and no video. Not only on the main site, but also the 90% of internet video that is just an embedded Youtube player. It can't be diagnosed or fixed and there are thousands of complaints out there on forums about the problem. If you randomly hit then there is no fix.
Then that started working again (was it with 5.0 or 6.0, I forget). But now anything above 480p stutters like crazy. It is a real shame because Chrome is a nice browser, but if they can't even maintain compatibility with one of the largest sites on the web (which they own FFS) then they have issues. Every other browser on my machine can play the same video though the same drivers without a problem.
At this point I might go back to the bloated piece of crap that Firefox has become on the mac....
Slashdot: where don knuth is an idiot because he cant grasp the awesome power of php
No, but that doesn't mean you talk about it. At a previous job one of the lead developers was responsible for writing the release notes. At one version, he bragged in there about how "over 200 bugs" had been fixed in that release. Not long after letting it out the door, we started getting a barrage of emails from angry customers demanding to know "why your software has hundreds of bugs in it."
The reality is that software has bugs. The reality is also that most users will never be impacted by all of them. Touting the number of bug fixes as if it's some kind of badge of honor just confuses people and makes them panic.
He no longer got to write the release notes after that.
Blender -- current version is 2.49b (after 12 years) and the complete rewrite with new interface will be 2.5x, not 3.