Chrome Stable Channel Update

Seems to be something wrong after the new update. The current tab shows faded out text that is hard to read at the top of the screen where it show the name of the site you are on. Other tabs are like before and easy to read, but not the tab i am on now. I do not have the default theme, which might be part of the problem.

 

You bet. I am rarely able to contribute anything here, so it's fun to occasionally provide useful knowledge.

Impressive number of fixes, though I admit, large numbers like this always make me wonder, was the previous version that insecure?

Component updates available for me included: MEI Preload; CRLSet; File Type Policies; Adobe Flash Player and Signed Tree Heads.

 

Flags now gone:

Top document isolation
chrome://flags/#enable-top-document-isolation

Optimize background video playback
chrome://flags/#disable-background-video-track

 

hi
and about UI Layout for the browser's top chrome they remove the old Ui
now there is only the new ui avaible , normal is gone
thanks for the info

 

Lotsa complaining about this update in the Chrome Releases comments section...

I don't see what the crying is all about.

 

If the problem is lack of being able to differentiate the active tab, try a theme which uses an easily identifiable color for the active tab like this one for example.

 

For some, on Linux, the crying is about the background color of the omnibox. Until v69, it followed the user's gtk3 theme. In v69 and v70 it required a setting in about:flags. In v71, that setting is no longer available. Those who use dark themes for the UI and web page now have to deal with a white omnibox which is visually jarring.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=863230
https://askubuntu.com/questions/107...us-omnibox-in-google-chrome-69-or-chromium-69

 

The Enterprise Release Notes for Chrome are available now with some details on version 71. It also covers changes to group policy settings and much more.

Link: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7679408?hl=en#71

Some interesting things from the Coming Soon section:

Anyway, not too many interesting things with this release.

 

I installed an extension called Change New Tab so I could replace the omnibox with google.com, which accepts my dark theme.

 

Thanks for responding! Is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/change-new-tab/mocklpfdimiadpbgamlgehpgpodggahe?hl=en the extension? It seems to deal with the New Tab page. By omnibox, I mean the address bar aka url bar which is part of the UI of normal pages. So, in https://i.stack.imgur.com/TeAMS.png, I'm meaning the white background in the address bar.

 

Thanks for the clarification RE the omnibox. Yes, that's the correct link for the Change New Tab extension I'm using. Unfortunately that extension doesn't change the background in the Omnibox. It does make it possible to use a page that can be skinned though, which is a big improvement over the glaring white default "new tab" page. I'd be interested in a dark Omnibox too.

I use Stylus in Chrome for dark styles for specific pages. There's also a global extension called Dark Mode that works well for most pages and allows for exclusions for pages it breaks.

 

Well, at least for Linux users, there seems to be some hope. In https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/a348k4/ui_layout/eb4j5hs and following comments, pkastings is "pushing gently" and Thomas Anderson has gotten involved. The latter did much of the work to make the transition to gtk3.

 

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html

 

Google Chrome 71.0.3578.98 Stable Offline Installers
Consumer version

Code:

x64 (51.8 MB)
https://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/release2/chrome/AO196ErPGQUF_71.0.3578.98/71.0.3578.98_chrome_installer.exe
x86 (50.9 MB)
https://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/release2/chrome/Ep6pbjF0xlQ_71.0.3578.98/71.0.3578.98_chrome_installer.exe

Spoiler: Enterprise version, Linux, Mac & Chrome Cleanup Tool

Enterprise version (msi installers)

Code:

x64 (53.8 MB)
https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi
x86 (52.9 MB)
https://dl.google.com/dl/chrome/install/googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi

Linux

Code:

x64 (54.0 MB)
https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
x86 (54.2 MB)
https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm

Mac

Code:

(72.5 MB)
https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg

Chrome Cleanup Tool

Code:

(12.3 MB)
https://dl.google.com/dl/softwareremovaltool/win/chrome_cleanup_tool.exe

 

Wouldn't hurt if you include sha256

 

No SHA-256 provided by Google. Just download links. Besides all installers are signed.
Download links are direct from Google Inc, Google LLC:
https://whois.domaintools.com/gvt1.com
https://whois.domaintools.com/google.com

 

How do I get rid of the stupid "Current User" icon in Chrome?

 

What icon, can you show a picture?

 

Highly likely this icon:

 

Well, one way would be to go here https://aboutme.google.com/ and upload an image filled with the same color as your chrome theme, you can use something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/colorzilla/bhlhnicpbhignbdhedgjhgdocnmhomnp to get the color

And btw, you misspelled "highly likely"

 

Google Chrome will soon tackle sites that affect the back button
December 18, 2018
https://www.techspot.com/news/77915-google-chrome-soon-tackle-sites-affect-back-button.html

 

Great. I hate when I click that button and the page just stays there.

 

Me too. Microsoft seems to be more guilty than most theses days.