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Google Chrome 29 Is Out: Omnibox Suggestions, Profile Resetting

Posted by Soulskill on from the ramping-up-for-number-thirty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today released Chrome version 29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The new version features improved Omnibox suggestions, profile resetting, as well as new apps and extensions APIs. The biggest change is undoubtedly around how Omnibox suggestions work on the desktop. When the feature arrived in the beta channel, Google said that the improvements were 'based on the recency of websites visited, so you’ll get more contextually relevant suggestions at the right time. ... Chrome 29 for Android meanwhile has received WebRTC support, which enables real-time communication (such as videoconferencing) in the browser without installing any plugins."

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  1. Google Service by Frankie70 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does Chrome still install and run background services on Windows? That's the reason I uninstalled Chrome. A Browser is a client side application. It should start when I start it and stop when I stop it. I see no reason for Chrome to run Windows Services. I uninstalled GTalk also for the same reason.

    1. Re:Google Service by icebike · · Score: 3, Informative

      Seriously, I don't get this warning.

      I click the pdf, it opens in chrome, and I tell it to save a copy.

      Have you ever considered that maybe it actually found malware in the pdf's java script?

      --
      Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
    2. Re:Google Service by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Other OSs have recognised this problem and solved it (horribly) long ago.

      FTFY.

      First of all from a repositorys perspective.. bandwidth consumed updating linux software is TINY. From microsofts perspective.. who is going to pay the bills when 500+ million users suddenly are updating several hundreds of megabytes. microsoft gets like 20-30 bucks or something from the PC maker to support a single user for the lifetime of the OS.

      Secondly what makes you think that application developers are going to be OK with microsoft handling their updates? What .. suddenly oracle and adobe are going to let a third party be in charge of delivering their products? I smell a new anti-trust lawsuit... you ms trolls are in some dreamland.

      But forgetting all that its funny how shitty the repository model is. Because of how broken linux dependency management is ... the freaking repository has to maintain a dependency chain and make sure that all application dependencies inside the repository are consistent (which they often fail to do). Furthermore.. simply unknowingly adding an extra repository can dump you in dependency hell on linux "Ohh... how do i get this shiny gnome theme... just add this repository" oops.. you dumped all the dependency management work on the repository maintainer rather than baking the tech in the OS.

      Windows ofcource has solved this LONG LONG ago with Windows component store (winsxs). If you follow microsoft's best practices while developing & distributing software it is currently impossible to encounter dependency hell on windows.

      This is another example of Windows being designed to be defective

      hahaha okay buddy... continue living in your fantasy land