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Google Releases Chrome 59 (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched Chrome 59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among the additions are native notifications on macOS, settings being revamped to follow Material Design, the Image Capture API, Headless Chrome, and more service worker improvements. You can update to the latest version now using the browser's built-in silent updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome.
I'm a bit surprised they're not already at version 590.
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For Wednesday June 7th, 2017: "Google Releases Chrome 60".
For sometime this weekend: "Google Releases Chrome 61"
For next week: "Google Releases Chrome 62"
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
We have been developing a web application for the last two years and I have become more familiar with Chrome than I ever had intended. There has been frustration from time to time (lots of crashes in a "stable" version last summer, a change in performance profiling that made life difficult for a while), but all in all I must say that Chrome is an amazing piece of software. I have not seen a crash in a while (and we are doing some wild stuff, believe me) and with every new release Javascript on Chrome just feels a little bit faster. Before I get too sentimental I just want to say "Thank You" to rhe Chrome and Chromium team.
And I really hope and pray that in one of the next releases we will see SVG Font support. That would be awesome.
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Has anyone else been experiencing the random hangs on v58 on startup, multiple linux machines with very different hardware i have with v58 do this.
Or '59 chrome?
One of the projects I work on is creating bots used to buy things like tickets (on Ticketmaster, Live Nation, etc...), or shoes (yeah, that's a thing...rich kids with too much time on their hands). The thing is, though, that these sites have very sophisticated methods of identifying bots; most of the time, if I navigate the checkout process with a bot, I get hit with a CAPTCHA, but if I navigate the site with a regular, mainstream browser, there's no CAPTCHA. So by offering headless operation, one could just programmatically drive Chrome and avoid having to deal with a CAPTCHA.
Talk about a slow newsday. "New Chrome release 59 causes laptops to explode, death toll at 30 so far" is news. This is just another incremental release announcement.
Rust does NOT support local computer file viewing; Rust does not support playback of website /embed/ *.mid; Rust does not support anonymous UTUBE. Get the chemistry? All Rust ... no Chrome.
Go fuck yourself, Google.
Seriously, Google should rename their browser "Gyara" so I can use this joke on my favorite song from a video game ever.
https://youtu.be/WYbHYoHYcto
You are welcome on my lawn.
So now malware can simply use an existing install of Chrome and totally mimic an end user in a way that makes it appear they were actually performing some actions.
Now we'll end up with banks or stores refusing to cover theft losses because they will say it passed all of their tests to insure a real user was using the system, so the customer must be lying about their claim of theft.
And of course it will make it much more annoying to use web sites which will have to work all the harder to ensure a kind of Turing test every time you visit a site to make sure you're not some scripted browser.
slashdot is officially dead.
Perhaps it is unrelated, but they finally fixed the bug I had on Fedora 25 / XFCE whereby attempting to open a link from outside chrome (such as from an email client) would kill chrome if it (chrome) wasn't on the visible workspace. I lost count of how many times I lost all my open tabs because of this annoying bug.
If you look at market share statistics, there's a large pool of Chrome 49 users, which is the last version to support XP. It should either release a new version or help users upgrade. Windows XP is three years out of date now, and no one knows how to deal with it. Chrome is the new IE in terms of market share, so it needs to take responsibility as Mozilla can't do it as they are too busy playing about with their web extensions to listen to its users.
I can't wait for the next big fad to come along in software so developers will put their energy into something else and quit putting notifications into everything.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
I'm still running version 1.0. Should I upgrade? are there any new features I should know about?
New hotness breaks acid2 and 3
What good is a web browser without a monitor?
--- Keep the choice with the user..
Google Chrome is probably the only browser besides Internet Explorer that has managed to dominate the browsers. The troubling thing is the potential for Chrome to take advantage of the control.
artists purposely underprice them, because they want to fill the venue (otherwise, their egos get hurt)
Why not Dutch-auction the seats, setting the price high to start with and then running a clearance later on for those seats that haven't sold?
Calling a browser by the name of a systems programming language sponsored by a competing browser engine developer is confusing.
does NOT support local computer file viewing
Though Chrome for Android does not, Chrome for desktop can still view HTML files. I just updated Chrome on my work PC to version 59, relaunched, and opened an HTML file. The one drawback is that each pathname (directory plus filename) is considered a separate origin for the purpose of the same origin policy, and there is no way for a file to issue the equivalent of an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. The workaround is to install Python on the same PC and do python3 -m http.server.
does not support playback of website /embed/ *.mid
It supports Web Audio API with which a JavaScript programmer could build a parser and soft synthesizer for Standard MIDI File, NSF, MOD, or what have you. (A JavaScript implementation of a missing browser feature is called a "polyfill".)
does not support anonymous UTUBE
I just updated Chrome on my work PC to version 59, relaunched, opened an Incognito window, and accessed Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation. Did you misspell the site name?