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Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes
An anonymous reader writes: In addition to updating Chrome for iOS, Google has released Chrome 38 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 38 beta brought a slew of new features, the stable release is pretty much just a massive security update. This means that, with Chrome 38, Google isn't adding any features to the stable channel (full changelog). That said, Chrome 38 does address 159 security issues (including 113 "relatively minor ones"). Google spent $75,633.70 in bug bounties for this release.
How is Chromium coming along?
Does Google still add features to it, now that it forked off Chrome?
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Interesting, but how is this news for nerds?
More importantly, how does this relate to Google Chrome?
Nerds eat pancakes too!
So a company released a beta version, and then a stable version that didn't add features to the beta? Wow. That really *is* news for nerds!
Any new features to their keylogger? Oh excuse me.. we call that the address bar in other browsers.. :)
Bastards,
Chrome is all buggy in CUCM now just like ie9 now : [
My Chromium is on version 40.0.2180.0 and so is my Chrome Canary at home.
Why is everyone still praising an older browser?
Firefox and IE are basically the only good browsers still, I'm so sick of bugs like this on really important features.
https://code.google.com/p/chro...
http://jsfiddle.net/7C7ey/
Morphing Software
I come from the future where we are now using Chrome 52.
P.S.: it's going to rain three days from now. After that, I don't know.
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How many years did Microsoft drag its feet on supporting .png and transparency? How long before it truly supported CSS? yeah IE and Firefox are still the only good browsers out there. Especially if you don't care about security.
So they still have not fixed the massive 1+ terabyte memory leak(especially when I view Slashdot.org and have to use IE11) in Chrome yet?
According to this page and this bug report, the only differences between Google Chrome and the copy of Chromium on my laptop are Adobe Flash Player, patented audio and video codecs, digital restrictions management for HTML5 video, and Google's crash reporting plug-in.
Every freeware site points to some small stub.
I'd like direct links to Chrome for OFFLINE installs, please.
Does Chrome now support Netflix with HTML5 rather than Silverlight? That would be helpful! No more Silverlight/Flash exploits creating Tinba infestations...
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/14/08/09/1854206/netflix-now-works-on-linux-with-html5-drm-video-support-in-chrome
That's because for many people software isn't a political act.
Correct. It's a practical act. If your company wants to hire someone to customize the software to fit its needs, that's practical only with free software.
Has it occurred to you that [users of software] simply don't care?
Has it occurred to you that publishers of software simply don't care about the needs of some of their users? That's why free software is so important: it gives you the flexibility to hire anyone to make a program do what you want.
And then I'm hard pressed to think of an open source browser which actually respects our privacy, doesn't have ads, and which runs on multiple platforms.
You mean like Firefox? What kind of "ads" or privacy violations are you talking about?
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That's a great excuse. IE6 sucked so Chrome 38 might as well still suck. Yeah CSS3 support is split up all over the place, but there are a certain small set of really useful core features that just about every browser supports, and are particularly more useful for webpages than other features. Pretty much everything in that small list of features is supported by IE10+, Chrome 10+, and FF 4+. Sometimes support requires with vendor prefixes, but it still works. Except gradients on Chrome. Up to version 38 still and you can't make basic angled striped patterns for backgrounds, or smoothly blend two colors over a large distance.
And sorry, if you're talking about security, let's talk about privacy. Google is to the point where I'd rather trust Microsoft with my personal information over Google, so that's a huge sting against Chrome, and I'm not really trying to advocate IE here. Firefox is pretty much where people want to be, especially given how much better adblock support is there.
Morphing Software
Around when they added the recent device emulation options in developer tools, the beta channel experience has been terrible. A search bug in devtools renders 0 results for virtually everything, and a new tab takes several seconds to open. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
The bug that makes text blurry for a second before it gets crisp again (happens when ClearType is disabled) and some text stays blurry (it tends to happen with "newly generated" text)? The bug where if you're in another tab and switch back to another tab where the content changed since you last viewed the tab, you see a flash of the old content for a split-second before it changes to the new content? The awful selection behavior? A gestures plugin that is capable of actually working the first time you use it like in Firefox? The blue flash that appears after you close a tab?
All of these bugs have been reported years ago, back around the time of Chrome 17, and it looks like the only issue that's been fixed is the blue flashing. So, I'll be sticking with Firefox for those reasons and also because I find it to be more stable and responsive when I've got tons of tabs open, and overall much more polished. Chrome still feels like beta software at best, after all of these years, it's kind of surprising seeing that Google is in charge of it.
Nerds McLov-in, thee pancake sauce...
Tell me about it...
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=414254
http://jsfiddle.net/0nqLqdhd/
It seems this gradient bug is a "known precision/speed tradeoff in Skia" which I assume is their rendering engine for gradients. I asked for a webkitPreciseRendering attribute for canvas context javascript object to disable that optimization but I got no response.
To me it seems they are trying to avoid putting vendor-specific extensions while keep their optimizations in place, which screws people like you and me who want things to be render precisely as opposed to fast. Either that or they don't want two code-bases that do the same thing (one fast and another one precise).
Crashes as soon as it opens (for me)! I guess there's no need for an internet browser to actually allow browsing the internet.
We were discussing a single portion of css 3 in this matter it was gradients. You can use chromium and not suffer the privacy concerns. Somehow I think you bringing that up though hints more to the reason that you find IE anf FF to be the only good browsers. If you think IE doesn't spy on you and that it is secure then keep on telling yourself that.
I think Firefox is the only good browser, and the only one people should be using. It renders the best, has the best adblock, and is secure and respects privacy as best as possible.
As a web developer, when all I care about is how the site renders, I want people to be using Firefox, or at least IE10+. Using Chrome or Safari is like using IE9. Is sort-of works with modern HTML5/CSS3 design, but with a graceful fallback to a crappier, sub-par look due to missing support for all the CSS3 features I want to use.
But I guess Chrome is a lot better than IE8 and below, but at that point we have to start comparing Netscape 4, so it's best to just forget about anything that old now.
Morphing Software
This is supposed to be supported in Chrome 38 without being hidden behind a preference for the first time.
I'd call that a major new feature, so did they not land that in Chrome 38?
Is Google outsourcing Chome devo to Windows programmers?
I need the direct download link(s) for the full offline installation of Chrome. Please tell me. Hello? Anybody?