Filed under: Windows, Google, Beta, Browsers, Windows x64
Google's browser forges ahead as Chrome 3 hits dev channel
by Lee Mathews May 28th 2009 at 8:00AM
Don't get too excited just yet, however. The changelog is still fairly short and isn't all that interesting - unless you have hundreds of thousands of bookmarks, in which case you'll be glad to know that some UI lag has been addressed. Tab, window, and Bookmark Extension APIs also received updates and some interface components have been retouched. As now noted elsewhere on the 'net, v3 also supports the HTML5 video tag - something that is probably worth mentioning in release notes, Google...
In terms of the browsing experience, nothing has changed yet. No, there's hasn't been another 30% speed boost to javascript performance.
To download Chrome v3, visit the install page via this link. The latest Chromium nightly builds have made the version jump as well.
At this rate, Chrome should be up to v8 or 9 before GMail hits RTM.
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Max said 8:57AM on 5-28-2009
"At this rate, Chrome should be up to v8 or 9 before GMail hits RTM."
Or before we see version 1 for Mac or Linux.
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Evenio said 2:51PM on 5-28-2009
I'm pretty sure Windows would have to become extinct before Google would (grudgingly) consider developing Mac or Linux versions.
JayMonster said 8:33AM on 8-06-2009
The Mac version ok... fine. But Linux? Ummm... My guess would be that the ChromeOS would have it... so that port is almost certainly "in the works"
maff said 9:22AM on 5-28-2009
v2 doesn't work for people behind proxies at work yet, get it sorted google!
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Tim Kedojeh said 10:41AM on 5-28-2009
I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about. Sure, Chrome won't _install_ from behind proxy by default, but just use the standalone installer (available at http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1), then Chrome should get online as long as you have your proxy settings configured in IE. It should even prompt you for a username and password, if your proxy server requires authentication.
Maff said 10:45AM on 5-28-2009
It does the same thing v1 used to do for months before it was sorted, it asks for the proxy username and password for every site, every reload, every tab and most of the time it asks more than once per page (if there's other sites/adverts embedded)
It's unusable at work, just as v1 used to be (so had to use chromium)
plenty of complaints about it around the web
Michael Freeman said 4:50AM on 5-29-2009
Latest version does not support Yahoo! Mail. Needs a fix.
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mark h said 8:25PM on 6-06-2009
Yep - my yahoo mail is messed up too... other wise I love it