Chrome Stable channel updated

@Ambient_88: Ars Technica is back up and, actually, I believe some of that may have to do with the amount of images and the layout of the site. I don't have the amount of lag/jerkiness you're experiencing, but there is an ever so slight difference between it and other sites I visit. Again it can also be the coding underneath. Verge though, dear Lord, lol. TMZ sucks too, but that's mostly because its just one cluttered clusterf**k of a website. Between the mass of social buttons, Flash videos and big quasi-ads for TooFab and others (and this is with good ad-blocking in place), it can be a pain to visit. Oh, and if the site has taken on a "Metro"-like design, chances are good it's going to go slow, in my experience. That's happened with PCWorld for me. That could be part of the Verge problem, though I think there is more to that particular website's issues. In my own opinion, I think websites have suddenly decided that "changing with the times" has required stuffing as much content on one page as possible, and design is either "Go Metro or go home". I'm seeing it everywhere now. Websites I've gone to for years are changing over to large, blocky tiles for article links and squishing them up against any remaining text and text links, along with the standard "ads" for other sites and ads in general. By the time you do that and sprinkle in a few "video articles" like the Verge does, you're left with a hell of an ugly view and perhaps that's why I see some rendering problems at times even in Chrome.

 

It is definitely working properly with the above fix. "Chrome://flags" opens up an amazing array of variables that are not available with normal settings. Google cautions users not to play with these without expert guidance, as they can lead to unexpected and often negative behaviour of the browser.

I also would like to emphasize that the problem seems to affect systems running Vista. It's good to know how to disable the automatic update, thanks.

 

@ Osaban,
I am real glad to hear you are back on track now after this recent Chrome update problem. It's a drag when an update messes with your system.

 

Thank you for your concern. It is actually odd when I think what makes us choose a particular browser rather than another. I was using IE9 for a couple of days and kept thinking it is really good, almost as fast as Chrome, secure and everything except it didn't feel right for some reasons. I suppose that we are all creatures of habit after all.

 

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.56 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms.

 

The Stable channel has been updated to 24.0.1312.57 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.

 

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 25 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 25.0.1364.97 for Windows and Linux, and 25.0.1364.99 for Mac contain a number of new items including:
Improvements in managing and securing your extensions
Better support for HTML5 time/date inputs
JavaScript Web Speech API support
Better WebGL error handling
And lots of other features for developers

 

Great. Finally flash-plugin (PPAPI) works again.
It seems they've either migrated the flash feature from /User/Appdata/Local/Google[..] folder to /Program Files/Google [..] folder, or their enterprise Chrome uses the appdata folder, and old files are not removed when the "regular" Chrome is installed. I can't remember which because I recently switched to Chrome non-enterprise version.

Slightly OT : Does anyone know if I can copy /backup my Chrome profile folder and restore it if necessary? I know Firefox's profile folder's content can get messed up and it would be handy if one could just delete the Chrome profile (the google / chrome folder) and simply replace it with a good copy.

 

Excerpted from: How to Backup Bookmarks,Extensions,History,Passwords of Chrome Profile

Personal Notes: Because of concerns about possible corruption within the User data folder itself, I usually just back up the bookmarks file.

I usually create the desired backup, then uninstall Chrome.
I run a cleaner program like CCleaner, then manually check for and remove leftovers.
Install a fresh copy of Chrome.
I run it once and close it again.
Then you can copy the backup of your old User Data folder over the existing one in your new installation.
Start Chrome again and you should be running like before.

Edit in: I left out a couple steps.

 

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I use Google Chrome Backup - easy to use and works well. You might try it.


http://www.parhelia-tools.com/products/gcb/googlechrome.aspx

 

Thanks for the info! Tried it and it works flawlessly. All old personal settings are replaced without any errors that I know of, including flags, plugin settings etc.

 

Thanks for the link, will keep it in mind.

 

I'm on 28.0 I think.. Very fast, much faster than 25 stable. Chromium builds are exceptionally well tested, and speedy, and you get faster security fixes.

http://download-chromium.appspot.com/

 

Version 28? Is that the Canary version available on http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel? How does that site you mentioned differ?

 

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.152 for Windows and Linux. Note: these release notes also apply to the same version for Mac that was released last Friday. This release contains security and stability improvements along with a number of bug fixes.

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] [176882] High CVE-2013-0902: Use-after-free in frame loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
[$1000] [176252] High CVE-2013-0903: Use-after-free in browser navigation handling. Credit to “chromium.khalil”.
[$2000] [172926] [172331] High CVE-2013-0904: Memory corruption in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[$1000] [168982] High CVE-2013-0905: Use-after-free with SVG animations. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
[174895] High CVE-2013-0906: Memory corruption in Indexed DB. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).
[174150] Medium CVE-2013-0907: Race condition in media thread handling. Credit to Andrew Scherkus of the Chromium development community.
[174059] Medium CVE-2013-0908: Incorrect handling of bindings for extension processes.
[173906] Low CVE-2013-0909: Referer leakage with XSS Auditor. Credit to Egor Homakov.
[172573] Medium CVE-2013-0910: Mediate renderer -> browser plug-in loads more strictly. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
[172264] High CVE-2013-0911: Possible path traversal in database handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla).

Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log.

 

Getting as many in as they can before pwn2own.

 

Over half a million in potential prize money.
When is it scheduled for?

 

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.160.
Probably a patch for the sandbox bypass exploit.

 

Is it possible to tweak the font rendering? Compared to Firefox the Chrome fonts are thinner and brighter.

Thank you for all suggestions.

 

Surprisingly, Google still does not provide an updated version for their Google Chrome Enterprise installer.

I rechecked seconds ago.

-edit-

On the other hand, Google Chrome Frame (Enterprise installer) is up-to-date. I forgot to check it yesterday. Funny. lol

 

The Stable channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.172.
More than likely it includes the Flash Player update.

 

I'm hoping it fixes a lot of page loading stalls, the infamous back button behavior..which has been happening without ABP installed and a lot of terrible slowing in general. Something was way off with the previous version

 

Some probs will arrive, some will disappear.

 

That's the Chrome way, always has been I was able to replicate these issues on several users' machines that weren't even in the same locations, so I didn't feel alone this time, lol.

 

Where are the Chrome freaks?