14 DAY TRIAL // No sooner that the first glimpses of the integrated extensions manager in Chromium/Google Chrome showed up, that the feature landed in the very latest Chromium builds. The new extensions page is a welcomed update of the existing, stand-alone one, but it's hardly the only new feature or update of the past days.
As the team is focusing on what will become Google Chrome 15, Google developers are adding more and more functionality and updates.
Windows users get access to a bunch of web accessibility improvements that Google says were a long time coming.
"Improvements include dozens of corrected roles and states for various elements, improved support for tables with rowspan and colspan, range control support, and live region support," a Chrome developer wrote.
Smooth Scrolling has also landed in the latest version of Chromium, but it's not enabled by default.
There is also a small but useful update for those using multiple profiles on Windows 7. Each browser window will now have their avatar added to the icons in the taskbar, making it easier to know which window belongs to whom. This feature will probably remain Windows 7-specific.
Google is making progress with support for Web Intents, the technology which aims to enable web apps to work with each other for various tasks. There is now a Web Intents picker user interface, though it's Linux only for the moment.
Another small tweak that comes in handy just when you need it is that Chrome will crash itself if it takes more than 25 to close, possibly due to a hanged page.
There are plenty more changes under the hood that should be of interest more for developers. Still, Chromium, the daily builds, is aimed at developers and users who know what they're doing, most users are better off waiting a while longer for the latest features and updates to trickle down to more stable Google Chrome channels. [via Peter Beverloo]