Google Chrome 2.0.171.0 out in Dev Channel

Google Chrome 2.0.171.0 out in Dev Channel

The developers behind the Google Chrome project have released a new version for the Chrome users on the Dev Channel.

The latest version for the dev channel users is Google Chrome 2.0.171.0.

Incidentally, this version is not yet announced on the Chromium Developer Documentation website.

We believe this is just a minor version bump with some bug fixes.

We would keep an eye on the documents to find out whats updated in this latest release.

Checkout: Google Chrome Release Notes

Update:

The changelog is now available!

Features:

New FTP implementation: use –new-ftp
Experimental Bookmark Menu: use –bookmark-menu
HTML5 Web Workers: use –enable-web-workers
Implement SSL renegotiation. (Issue: 6893)
Pressing the Del key while a item is selected in the form suggestion popup deletes that suggestion from the DB.
WebKit version 530.4
V8 version 1.1.1.4

Fixes:
Add command line switch “–new-ftp” for new portable FTP (Issue: 4965)
Add the directory listing code for the new portable FTP (Issue: 4965)
SSL improvements. (Issue: 8706)
Fix excessive CPU when scrolling Flash. (Issue: 8653)
Fix crash on showing info bubble. (Issue: 8854)
Aligning text to the right, especially RTL languages. (Issue: 1845)
Fix dragging a Chrome window which has a single tab by the tab itself. (Issues: 2827, 8287)
Do correct hit testing for context menu items. (Issue: 8100)
Add support for progressive JPEGs with MIME type image/pjpeg. (Issue: 2104)

Known Issues:
Issue 8892: Browser crash with closing about:network window.
Issue 8732: Provide a scroll bar for about:network dialog
Issue 8767: Can create multiple Downloads tabs from Download shelf
Issue 8220: No more status spinning in Downloads page
Issue 8637: Unable to drag window when one browser window open with single tab
Issue 8827: Import browsring history shows today’s history only in the history page.
Issue 8822: Tab crashes with debugger !
Issue 8821: Inspector is broken, shows empty elements
Issue 8372: Background paint issues with Task manager/B’Manager in maximized mode
Issue 8587: Regression: Encoding auto-detect doesn’t work any more
Issue 8517: tabbing should work on a SSL interstitial page