14 DAY TRIAL // Chrome testers are being treated to a new build of their favorite web browser with Google’s Dharani Govindan announcing a new Dev Channel version of Chrome with several new optimizations, a bunch of fixes, and an Angry Birds issue that’s pending a fix on Mac OS X.
Govindan reveals on the blog dedicated to Chrome releases that “The Dev channel has been updated to 15.0.865.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.”
The Google program manager asks users to note that a performance experiment is underway for those running Chrome on Windows platforms.
“Some users will get 15.0.865.1000. This version is identical to 865.0 in features but has different optimizations,” says Govindan.
For all supported platforms, including Mac OS X, the new Chrome has an updated V8 component - now at version 3.5.8.0; fixed downloads crashers occurring due to over-aggressive consistency checks; and a working Print Preview function, according to the changelog.
Chrome technicians were also able to fix an issue where turning on sync encryption could remove bookmark titles.
On Windows, when downloading a file with illegal trailing characters in the file name, they are replaced rather than truncated, according to Govindan.
A known issue is listed and (what do you know?) it’s related to Angry Birds not loading when switching from SD to HD on a Mac.
As usual, full details about what changes are in this new Dev build can be found in the SVN revision log.
This Chrome release also includes the code corrections from Google’s most recent Dev update which, for Mac users in particular, fixed many of the common crashes, and also implemented a workaround for crashes in Chrome’s GPU process with some NVIDIA hardware.
Chrome for Mac requires and Intel-based machine, 128MB of RAM and at least 100MB of free hard disk space.