Chrome Releases: August 2013

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Friday, August 30, 2013

available in Google Play

260227: Space missing from suggestions in google.com when query contains a typo

272062: Simple Cache heap peaks during index regeneration

Support for input <type = week>

237839: Blue shadow on edit context menu

263870: History search textbox disappears when search term is deleted

268896: Samsung S3 - Quitting app,when open new tab while playing mse video

261822: Partial white flashes and background border issues during tap-to-zoom

266572: Flickering on HTC1

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Stable Channel Release for Chrome OS

Thursday, August 29, 2013

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).

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

Some highlights of these fixes are:

Fix flash games sites running out of file descriptors and causing system to freeze. (279301)
Fix link to redeem Chrome goodies in the Files app

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1599.21 (platform version: 4537.25.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes.
Known Issues:

New Folder button in Files App not working (272765). Workaround: Create the folder using context menu in the files window.

Dev Channel Update

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

The Dev Channel has been updated to 31.0.1612.2 for Mac, Windows and Chrome Frame .This release fixes the bug: 280205. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Karen GrünbergGoogle Chrome

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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Stable Channel Update

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Dev Channel has been updated to 31.0.1612.0 for Mac and Linux, and 31.0.1612.1 for Windows and Chrome Frame .This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs. A full list of changes is available in the SVN log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Chromecast Update

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Friday, August 23, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1599.16 (platform version: 4537.16.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes.
Known Issues:

New Folder button in Files App not working (272765). Workaround: Create the folder using context menu in the files window.

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Thursday, August 22, 2013

available in Google Play

Search by image: Long press on any image and select the option to search Google for content related to that image

Easy access to tab switcher: Drag down from the toolbar to enter tab switcher

Draggable menu: Simply drag your finger to select the menu item you need

Side swipe on toolbar to switch tabs: You can now switch tabs by swiping left or right on the toolbar. To avoid accidental interaction with page content, we have disabled tab switching using side swipe on page content area

Easy zoom gesture: Zoom into your preferred magnification on any desktop web site by double tapping on the page and swiping your finger up-down without lifting it

WebGL: A JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D graphics and 2D graphics has been enabled by default

Device Motion: Web developers can access device acceleration and rotation rates via the device motion part of Device Orientation API

Media Source Extension support: A JavaScript API that enables use cases such as adaptive streaming and time-shifting live streams

263870: History search textbox disappears when search term is deleted.

275778: Text becomes duplicated after inserting & removing a line break within a word

261822: Partial white flashes and background border issues when tap-to-zoom

266572: Flickering on HTC1

Some known crashes

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Stable Channel Release for Chrome OS

Thursday, August 22, 2013

The link to redeem your Chrome Goodies in the Files app is temporarily broken and will be fixed with the next release. In the meantime, please go here directly.

edited 8/23/2013except the Lenovo Thinkpad X131e)

Kernel 3.8 landed on Pixel and Samsung 550.

New “immersive” mode - hit the fullscreen button to hide the toolbar and shelf and until you hover at the top for a more immersive browsing experience.

Pin apps to the shelf using Drag and Drop from the Launcher

Default wallpaper selection will sync across all your devices

Monitor Scaling allows you to scale the UI. Especially useful on Pixel to get some more space

Two-finger history navigation

App launcher Search just got cleverer

It will dynamically learn what you search for
Apps are more prominent
It will search for you in the web store if you don’t have an app installed

Known Issues:

The link to redeem your Chrome Goodies in the Files app is temporarily broken and will be fixed with the next release. In the meantime, please go here directly.

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Easier searching by image

A number of new apps/extension APIs

Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

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Chromecast and Google Cast SDK Update

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Better discovery of Chromecast devices

Improved Google Play Movies stability

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Chrome for Android Update

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

available in Google Play

WebRTC, an API that enables video and voice communication directly in the browser without a plugin

WebAudio, an API that allows developers to process and synthesize audio in web applications

Visual indication when scrolling to the top or bottom of a page

New color picker user interface for web forms

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Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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Chrome Beta for Android Update

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

available in Google Play

273378: Textures are not freed for invisible tabs

243630: LayerTitleCache::ClearExcept Crash

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Stable Channel Update

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Improved Omnibox suggestions based on the recency of sites you have visited

Ability to reset your profile back to its original state

Many new apps and extensions APIs

Lots of stability and performance improvements

Security Fixes and RewardsNote: Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of users are updated with a fix. This commonly occurs if the bug exists in a third party library that other projects similarly depend on, but haven’t yet fixed.
25 security fixesChromium security page

[$1337] [181617] High CVE-2013-2900: Incomplete path sanitization in file handling. Credit to Krystian Bigaj.

[$500] [254159] Low CVE-2013-2905: Information leak via overly broad permissions on shared memory files. Credit to Christian Jaeger.

[$1337] [257363] High CVE-2013-2901: Integer overflow in ANGLE. Credit to Alex Chapman.

[$1000] [260105] High CVE-2013-2902: Use after free in XSLT. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

[$1000] [260156] High CVE-2013-2903: Use after free in media element. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

[$1000] [260428] High CVE-2013-2904: Use after free in document parsing. Credit to cloudfuzzer.

[274602] CVE-2013-2887: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives (Chrome 29).

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Monday, August 19, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1599.11 (platform version: 4537.5.0/4537.6.0 for cr-48) for all Chrome OS devices. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes.

Known Issues:

Video glitches on on certain Flash sites. Workaround: Move cursor away from playing window reduces the glitches (263154).

Spoken search result audio speaks too fast (272520)

Beta Channel Update

Friday, August 16, 2013

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Beta Channel Release for Chrome OS

Friday, August 16, 2013

Notable Improvements:

Pepper Flash updated to 11.8.800.94-r4

Notable Improvements:

Pepper Flash updated to 11.8.800.94-r4

Dev Channel Update

Thursday, August 15, 2013

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Chrome Beta for Android Update

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

available in Google Play

265460: HLS video playback is broken

270186: Incorrect Text padding in Fullscreen API bubble on smaller devices like S2, S2 plus, HTC One V

266457: Tab opening and tab switcher animation not smooth

259048: Some WebAudio pages crash

247153: Graphical corruptions while scrolling on Galaxy Nexus/ICS and Galaxy Tab 2/ICS

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Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1599.1 (platform version: 4537.0.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes.

Known Issues:

Performance tracing enabled option shows in the systems tray even if not enabled (272389)

Video glitches on on certain Flash sites. Workaround: Move cursor away from playing window reduces the glitches (263154).

Beta Channel Update

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

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Dev Channel Update

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

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Beta Channel Release for Chrome OS

Monday, August 12, 2013

The Beta channel has been updated to 29.0.1547.49 (Platform version: 4319.59.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates. 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).

Ben Henry
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

Monday, August 12, 2013

The Dev channel has been updated to 30.0.1589.4 (platform version: 4512.2.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes.

Known Issues:

Video glitches on on certain Flash sites. Workaround: Move cursor away from playing window reduces the glitches (263154).

Htm5 YouTube video freezes when USB headphone is plugged in (270210).

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Monday, August 12, 2013

Josafat Garcia

Google Chrome

The Stable channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.95 for all Chrome OS devices (Platform version: 4100.89.0). This build contains a kernel version update in the TPM.
Devices will be receiving this update over the next several days. 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).
Josafat GarciaGoogle Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

available in Google Play

260463: Add more padding to text in fullscreen API bubble, center text

252513: [WebRTC] Camera shows only black & white video not color for many low end devices

263808: ColorPicker - Add grid lines between colors in simple view

266457: Tab opening and tab switcher animation not smooth

247153: Graphical corruptions while scrolling on Galaxy Nexus/ICS and Galaxy Tab 2/ICS

260440: [X86] Text gets duplicated when entering & unable to delete text in the text fields

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Improved video quality and reduced power consumption by enabling hardware acceleration on many more Flash video sites (Pepper Flash v. 11.8.800.94-r3)

Beta Channel Update

Thursday, August 1, 2013

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