The Beta channel has been updated to 4.0.249.43 for Linux, Windows and Mac. It was cut at r34532. The release includes stability improvements for Linux and Linux, Windows and Mac.

All platforms

• Fixed several common crashes

Windows and Linux

• Fix bug 28795 - Added a notification says "xxx is synched." if you are already synced and click that button.

Linux

• Fixed bug 28061 - Add popup support for page action extensions.

Known issues

• Mac only: bug 29121 - You'll get an error when checking for updates using the About Google Chrome dialog. 'Update server not available' (error : 12). Regardless of the error message, the update is successful.

Orit Mazor, Google Chrome

Google Chrome's Stable channel has been updated to version 3.0.195.38. (The Stable channel is still Windows-only.)


This release fixes a couple of browser crashes:

• r31694 fixes a crash while typing in the omnibox (issue 20511).
• r32474 fixes a crash while playing mp4 videos with odd sizes, such as 1366x768 (issue 27675).

--Mark Larson, Google Chrome Team

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.266.0 for Windows and Linux.

No mac updates this week, we are working to get a version out soon.

All Platforms (but Mac)

• Initial implementation of the HTML5 sandbox attribute for iframes [WebKit@51577]
• [r33376] Copying an image from a web page and pasting into Gmail now works (Issue: 27708)
• Spellchecker moved to renderer. (Issue: 25677)

Windows

• [r33803] Fixed download dialog truncation in German locale. (Issue: 23178)
  
• [r33855] Fixed options panel truncation in various locales. (Issue: 24821)
  
• [r33793] Implement keyboard access between bookmarks and main toolbar. (issue 3510 issue 8329 issue 10942 issue 15228 issue 21211).
  

Linux

• [r32547] Extensions that use bubbles on page actions work. (Issue: 28061)
  
• [r33132] Proxy settings should now work on newer KDE4 systems. (Issue: 25938)
  
• [r32206] Use SSE2 optimizations in Skia.
  

Known issues:

Issue #30065
[Linux] Drop down menu for bookmark location is broken;Drop down menu opens for a second then close.

Issue #30066
Once a folder is located in 'Other Bookmarks', user cannot move the folder out of 'Other Bookmarks'

Issue #30067
[Linux] When creating Folder/Bookmark under the 'Other Bookmarks', Foler/Bookmark is created on the bookmark bar.

Issue #30068
[Linux] When Folder is located under parent folder or 'Other Bookmarks', the folder icon color becomes gray.

Orit Mazor, Google Chrome

We're happy to announce that Google Chrome 4.0.249.30 has been promoted to the Beta channel on Windows, Mac, and Linux.


In addition to introducing our first Beta versions on Mac and Linux, this update introduces Google Chrome extensions on Windows and Linux. Read more about this Beta update on the Google Chrome Blog. 


This release is the same as 4.0.249.25 with a fix to make the HTML video tag work.


Users can subscribe to the Beta channel by installing from

• Windows: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel
• Mac: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=mac
• Linux: http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

Mac users who previously installed the Dev channel release will automatically be migrated to the Beta channel. If you want to get back on the Google Chrome Mac Dev channel, follow the instructions at http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.


(A new Dev channel release is coming soon.)


Mark Larson
Google Chrome Team

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.27 for Mac.

Mac

• [r33490] Disabled extensions. (Issue: 29086)
• [r33556] [r33768] Added more localized string translations.
• [r33803] Fixed download dialog truncation in German locale. (Issue: 23178)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome Program Manager

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.25 for Windows.

All

• [r33602] Delete old version directories of installed extensions during garbage collection. (Issue: 28884)

Win

• Fixes for two top crashes. (Issues: 28994 and 27068)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome Program Manager

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.22 for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

All

• [r33013] Disable --enable-user-scripts. (Issue: 27520)
  
• NOTE: You can now install user scripts by navigating to them. You will have to reinstall your current scripts (they aren't migrated).
• [r33086] Remove toolstrips API. (Issue: 24475)
  
• [r32875] Turn on HTML5 DBs by default.

Mac

• [r32793] Omnibox no longer becomes too long for window after installing a few themes (Issue: 28476)
• [r32843] Display a warning dialog if there was a problem reading the profile (Issue: 26377)
• [r32943] Switch "Save" and "Discard" buttons on dangerous download warning to match platform standard. (Issue: 28638)
• [r33105] Show feedback while dragging bookmarks (Issue: 17608)
• [r33243] Implement non-admin autoupdate (Issue: 16360)

Known Issue

• [MAC] (Issue: 29121) If a user clicks "Set Up Automatic Updates for All Users" and later clicks "Update Now" from the About Box, an error 12 will be displayed. The product is updated successfully; restarting the browser will apply the update.

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

You can find out about getting on the Dev channel here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.

If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry.

Anthony Laforge

Google Chrome Program Manager