Chrome Releases: January 2013

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Extended Desktop Mode enabled - please help test and provide feedback.

Two finger swipe back/forward has returned!

Netflix.com does not stream video.

The new Samsung Chromebook with 3G may have problems with the modem after returning from idle. Workaround: deactivate and reactivate the modem or reboot the machine.

Audio is not working over HDMI.

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Dev Channel Update

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1397.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Tanya Radeva

Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

[171725] Windows controls have red overlay

Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.57 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains the following fixes:

Mac: r177690 Fix renderer crashes when using certain IMEs. (Issue 152566)
Mac: r178517 Fix microphone input dropout with Pepper Flash. (Issue 168859)
Chrome Frame: r178591 Fix renderer exiting in certain cases when opening a new Window from Chrome Frame. (Issue 171877)

Chrome OS Management Console Update

Monday, January 28, 2013

user policies

Video input

herecontacting support

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Google Play

143146 - Support for chrome://flags!

169616 - Keyboard pops up after Chrome is closed

Issues with GMail and Google image search on Galaxy Note II

170653 - Scroll position is reset momentarily when double-tapping in footer/gutter on some pages

Sometimes flickering and graphical glitches are observed while opening new tab

Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

Video continues playing after exiting fullscreen on android phones

[HTC Droid DNA] Getting crash on tabswitcher mode

163439 - yahoo.com page links are not working

166233 - Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures

158633: Tap disambiguation overaggressive

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Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, January 24, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.46 (Platform version: 3428.92.0) for Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700, cr-48 and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.
Some highlights of these changes are:

Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.5.31.140

HTML5 Content Decryption Module (CDM) with WebM support

Improvements to network notifications shown (170011)

Captive portal login screen now disappears correctly (166973)

Accessibility options are no longer active when the menu has been closed (165223)

Fix to device freeze when tab pressed at login (169956)

Known Issues:

Chrome Office Viewer fails to open files containing % or spaces in the name (168341)

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

[171725] Windows controls on XP have red overlay

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.33 (Platform version: 3428.65.0) for Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700, cr-48 and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements. Machines will receive this update over the next several days.

Some highlights of these changes are:

Pepper Flash updated to releases 11.5.31.139

App List now supports re-ordering

Extended multi-monitor support

Intelligent Window positioning (if you don't manually move your windows, we will arrange them to show you more at all times)

Tap dragging is now a user preference.

Encrypted Media Extensions are enabled by default

Modifications to the system tray to display accessibility options.

Known Issues:

In some situations, Chrome Sync may not sync any data. Workaround: Restart system and perform sync again (167090)

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Danielle Drew & Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

[$1000] [151008] High CVE-2013-0839: Use-after-free in canvas font handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[170532] Medium CVE-2013-0840: Missing URL validation when opening new windows.
[169770] High CVE-2013-0841: Unchecked array index in content blocking. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
[166867] Medium CVE-2013-0842: Problems with NULL characters embedded in paths. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
[Mac only] [166523] High CVE-2013-0843: Crash with unsupported RTC sampling rate. Credit to Ted Nakamura of the Chromium development community.

Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in hopping on the stable channel? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.56 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms. This build contains the following fixes:

Fixed performance of mouse wheel scrolling. [Issue: 160122]
Fixed visited links regression. [Issue: 160025]
Fixed windows installation when installed as admin. [Issue: 166473]

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

[$1000] [151008] High CVE-2013-0839: Use-after-free in canvas font handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[170532] Medium CVE-2013-0840: Missing URL validation when opening new windows.
[169770] High CVE-2013-0841: Unchecked array index in content blocking. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
[166867] Medium CVE-2013-0842: Problems with NULL characters embedded in paths. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
[Mac only] [166523] High CVE-2013-0843: Crash with unsupported RTC sampling rate. Credit to Ted Nakamura of the Chromium development community.

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Thursday, January 17, 2013

The Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.111 (Platform version: 2913.331.0) for all Chrome OS devices. Machines will receive this update over the next several days.

Some highlights of these changes are:

New firmware version for Acer C7

New Flash version 11.5.31.5 for x86

New Flash version 11.5.31.30 for arm

Stability fixes

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Tanya Radeva

Google Chrome

Fixed marking notifications when opened and closed (Issue: 169388)

Fixed web popup menus (Issue: 166832)

Fixed renderer form_autofill_util changes to support Checkboxes and Radiobuttons (Issue: 157636)

Fixed decoding of URL in bookmark editor (Issue: 165648)

Added the preferences and UI to make the launcher opt-inable (Issue: 151676)

Added incognito visualization to items in the new app menu (Issue: 169842)

Renamed the magnifier names: "Full" -> "Entire screen", "Partial" -> "Lens" (Issue: 166832)

Enable webkit preference for Chromium to disallow unsafe plugin pasting (Issue: 112325)

Fixed thumbnail view on Drive (Issue 170022)

Fixed crash bug in BookmarkEditorView (Issue 167385)

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Tanya Radeva Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Google Play

165783: Enable compositing scrollable frames on Android

168368: Chrome progress bar should be displayed as soon as the user clicks a link

165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving

162486 - iframe scrolling broken

170436 - When upgrading, Chrome icon is not getting updated

170653 - Scroll position is reset momentarily when double-tapping in footer/gutter on some pages

Sometimes flickering and graphical glitches are observed while opening new tab

Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

Video continues playing after exiting fullscreen on android phones

[HTC Droid DNA] Getting crash on tabswitcher mode

163439 - yahoo.com page links are not working

166233 - Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures

158633: Tap disambiguation overaggressive

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Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Jason Kersey

Google Chrome

[170318] The Chrome Apps <webview> Browser Demo does not render correctly.

Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Improved power consumption on arm devices

UI fixes

Crash fixes

In some situations, Chrome Sync may not sync any data. Workaround: Restart system and perform sync again (167090)

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Chrome Beta for Android Update

Monday, January 14, 2013

Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S
Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver
Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
Video continues playing after exiting fullscreen on android phones
[HTC Droid DNA] Getting crash on tabswitcher mode
163439 - yahoo.com page links are not working
166233 - Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures
165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
162486 - iframe scrolling broken
158633: Tap disambiguation overaggressive
169910 - Flickering while opening new tab

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Google Play

164632 - Edit Bookmark is broken

167351 - Youtube video controls are lost after returning from fullscreen

167016 - Some Samsung Galaxy S2 freezes

168062 - Double tapping on non-zoomable sites scrolls the page to the top briefly before returning to original position

167379 - Sometimes tabswitcher is frozen

166998 - Tab content stretched out while returning to it through side swipe gesture

168632 - Crash - Stack Signature: TabAndroidImpl::FromWebContents

168388 - Sync signed in info text's font size is too small

168430 - Bookmark star icon doesn't turn grey/white immediately after bookmarking URL /deleting URL from bookmarks

Known Issues:

Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S
Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver
Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
Video continues playing after exiting fullscreen on android phones
[HTC Droid DNA] Getting crash on tabswitcher mode
163439 - yahoo.com page links are not working
166233 - Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures
165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
162486 - iframe scrolling broken
158633: Tap disambiguation overaggressive
169910 - Flickering while opening new tab

Beta Channel Update

Monday, January 14, 2013

A full list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

announce the promotion of Chrome 25

Improvements in managing and securing your extensions
Continued testing of search and the new tab page
Better support for HTML5 time/date inputs
Javascript speech API support
Better WebGL error handling
And lots of other features for developers

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Friday, January 11, 2013

Update: cr48 now also updated!

New firmware version for Acer C7

New Flash version 11.5.31.5 for x86

New Flash version 11.5.31.30 for arm

Stability fixes

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Dev Channel Update

Thursday, January 10, 2013

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Chrome for Android Beta Channel

Thursday, January 10, 2013

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Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S

Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver

Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites

164632 - Editing bookmark feature is broken

165244 - Text position handler jumps or disappears when moving

163439 - Clicking on links in yahoo.com not navigating on Nexus 7

166233 - Unable to submit comments on Facebook posts in desktop version of Facebook

165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving

167351 - Youtube video controls are lost after returning from fullscreen video mode

162486 - iframe scrolling broken

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Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Update

Thursday, January 10, 2013

support for MathMLDave Bartonupdate to Flash Official Chrome BlogOfficial Chromium Blogthe Chromium security page

[$1000] [162494] High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[$4000] [165622] High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyengar, both of Facebook.

[$1000] [165864] High CVE-2012-5147: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to José A. Vázquez.

[167122] Medium CVE-2012-5148: Missing filename sanitization in hyphenation support. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh).

[166795] High CVE-2012-5149: Integer overflow in audio IPC handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[165601] High CVE-2012-5150: Use-after-free when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[165538] High CVE-2012-5151: Integer overflow in PDF JavaScript. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[165430] Medium CVE-2012-5152: Out-of-bounds read when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[164565] High CVE-2012-5153: Out-of-bounds stack access in v8. Credit to Andreas Rossberg of the Chromium development community.

[Windows only] [164490] Low CVE-2012-5154: Integer overflow in shared memory allocation. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[Mac only] [163208] Medium CVE-2012-5155: Missing Mac sandbox for worker processes. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes).

[162778] High CVE-2012-5156: Use-after-free in PDF fields. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[162776] [162156] Medium CVE-2012-5157: Out-of-bounds reads in PDF image handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[162153] High CVE-2013-0828: Bad cast in PDF root handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[162114] High CVE-2013-0829: Corruption of database metadata leading to incorrect file access. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).

[Windows only] [162066] Low CVE-2013-0830: Missing NUL termination in IPC. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh).

[161836] Low CVE-2013-0831: Possible path traversal from extension process. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Tom Sepez).

[160380] Medium CVE-2013-0832: Use-after-free with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[154485] Medium CVE-2013-0833: Out-of-bounds read with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[154283] Medium CVE-2013-0834: Out-of-bounds read with glyph handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[152921] Low CVE-2013-0835: Browser crash with geolocation. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[150545] High CVE-2013-0836: Crash in v8 garbage collection. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[145363] Medium CVE-2013-0837: Crash in extension tab handling. Credit to Tom Nielsen.

[Linux only] [143859] Low CVE-2013-0838: Tighten permissions on shared memory segments. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Palmer).

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Fixes to several recent bugs in Google Docs

Audio is now working for spoken feedback

Several fixes related to multi-monitor extended desktop display (163812, 35796)

Fix to some pages' scrolling jumping to the top of the page (166943)

Several crash fixes

In some situations, Chrome Sync may not sync any data. Workaround: Restart system and perform sync again. (167090)

The login screen when resuming from a locked state may be off-center. (167215)

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Beta Channel Update

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.52 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains security fixes and an update to flash. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

Monday, January 7, 2013

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Beta Channel Update

Monday, January 7, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.49 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains stability fixes. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Dharani Govindan
Google Chrome

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