Acceleration for background pages disabled, old bookmark menus are back

Oct 13, 2011 07:27 GMT  ·  By

Version 15.0.874.92 of Chrome Beta shows plenty of changes, with an updated JavaScript engine at the top of the list. Document printing issues have been repaired (crash during print preview and printing with too large margins).

Now the browser should have no problem showing the correct progress percentage when downloading large items.

Users who enabled clearing cookies and other site data upon leaving Chrome, would get an error when trying to play video requiring Silverlight (Netflix users, in particular, would get this). This is no longer the case in this release.

GPU acceleration for background pages has been disabled, as a possible workaround to fix a an issue where a page would fall into a constant relayout loop.

The new release sees a return to the old bookmark menu, a move also reported in the latest Dev update, for the Mac version. The reason for this change is lack of reaction to right-click or drag and drop.

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