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Google Chrome 28 Is Out: Rich Notifications For Apps, Extensions
An anonymous reader writes "Google today released Chrome version 28 for Windows and Mac. The new version features a notification center, although it's only available on Windows (in addition to Chrome OS of course). You can update to the latest release now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. This is also the first release of Chrome that ships with Blink instead of WebKit. You can check the Blink ID yourself tag by navigating to chrome://version/."
Okay, but how do those of us in the middle class get notifications?
Table-ized A.I.
Because Google always used this numbering system, and Mozilla changed it for inexplicable reasons. What's more, I don't think that version number changes have the same effect on killing extensions that it does on Firefox.
He "sounds needlessly paranoid"? That's kind of an odd thing to say, given that you posted anonymously. Is your name Sergey or Larry, perchance?
#DeleteChrome
Oh sure, that'll be the same build that finally figures out that some organisations have web servers with names that don't end in .com.
It's woefully consistent - type a server name that is a "recognised external" URL (so something ending in .com, .co.uk, .fr, etc) and it'll go straight to the site. Type an internal server name (either a plain server name or an internal DNS name) and it will insist on searching Google, because quite obviously the user DIDN'T want localsite or site.network.internal after all. No if you want an internal server, you'll need to get the users to type in the full URL including protocol (because then the same keystrokes that were obviously wrong are suddenly obviously right).
Couple that with the new "requirement" for Chrome if you want to download the Google Talk [wait no it's Hangouts now] on the desktop (they can pry the desktop Talk client from my cold dead fingers) and the continual forcing of Google+ to view an image in a chat, it's clear Google has already turned into Microsoft V2 and is working on digging in deeper. (Hangouts? Seriously? No, it's not a "hangout" when I send an IM to my son to put the damn garbage out!)
For the record, they're dropping support for extensions using HTML desktop notifications in this version, which made their new "rich" notifications look old and crotchety. A number of extensions, including a couple of my own, lost a massive amount of functionality overnight because of this.
I don't think there is anything done on the web that Google isn't aware of these days so you may as well just make it easier for them.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
none of the version number changes in chrome has broken anything for me. chrome doesn't start and pop up a box, run checks for minutes, and then saying half my plugins are no longer supported.
Oh man do hangouts suck. With Talk on my phone I could tell if people were online or not. Hangouts doesn't indicate (on Android).
They also take 5-10 seconds to activate. Like the dam thing isn't * phoning * home, it is composing a letter long hand.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I wish they would stop making it so easy to integrate stuff into chrome.
I was testing software packages for work and I spent 30 minutes removing self installing tool bars from chrome. I would remove one extension but by the time I got to remove the second one it would install the first one again.
I don't want 4 extension 3, toolbars, 2 home page settings, each with the ability to install software by themselves.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Why not just force load it in incognito mode? And I'd rather Chrome talk to Google than IE talking to MS.
StarTrekPhase2 - The Five Year Mission Continues!
And the extension webstore hosts malware. I have reported "Facebook Adblock" several times and it is still there, months later. The negative comments keep getting pushed down by cheerleaders, and the older reviews just drop off the list.
Chrome 29 ignores the --disable-new-menu-style switch. Another strange choice made by the devs (remember the useless outcry when they cancelled the option to hide the download shelf?)...
Sure v28 is built on Blink? I just put chrome://version/ in my address bar, and it shows my UA string as -- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 Safari/537.36
You'll be happy to know that google talk doesn't work on windows 8.1.
No idea if that is the reason for that error, but Google dropped support for RHEL6 with Chrome 28.
Google Chrome shapes into a really nice OS, it just lacks a decent browser.
64 bit is often just a recompile away on Mac and Linux. Windows is a very different beast. A lot of Windows software does not support 64 bit, or offers only experimental support for it.
Yeah, I think I'm going to switch to Firefox again. The Doctor warned us about this rendering engine in pretty strong words.