14 DAY TRIAL // The latest version of the open-source browser made available for download through the Google Chrome Developer channel is 2.0.174.0. With Google Chrome 2.0.174.0, the Mountain View-based search giant is offering end users a tad more flexibility when it comes down to the content on newly opened tabs. In this regard, Google informed that Chrome 2.0.174.0 would permit end users to remove all the thumbnails representing shortcuts to websites that had been so far featured by default on the empty space associated with new tabs.
In addition, other notable changes involve: the addition of “"Undo Tab Close" and "New Tab" to the context menu on the tab bar. It is no longer possible to cut or copy from a password text-field. Ctrl+Shift+Arrow allows change in text direction in RTL UIs. Also now support Ctrl+Shift text alignment based on which side of the keyboard those keys are pressed,” revealed Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager.
Google also fixed an issue reported with the previous dev channel release of Chrome where Google Calendar widget failed to show events. Chrome 2.0.174.0 comes just a couple of days after the release of 2.0.172.5. However, the 2.0.172.5 development milestone is a build belonging to the Google Chrome Beta Channel, designed to offer end users all the security updates and resolves offered in the past with releases such as 2.0.169.1 and 2.0.172.2.
Laforge explained that in addition to improvements in stability and bug fixes, Chrome 2.0.172.5 “Added support to cache some form submissions so that when you press back, you don't get the annoying "Confirm Form Submission." Autocomplete popup now appears when you press up/down key in a text-field. Visited links from normal browsing are no longer being displayed as visited (i.e. purple) in incognito mode. Pressing the Del key while an item is selected in the form suggestion popup deletes that suggestion.”
The latest version of Google Chrome is available for download here.