14 DAY TRIAL // Just a few days after the release of the previous Beta update for Google Chrome, the Mountain View-search giant has made available for download a new release. Google Chrome 4.1.249.1036 can now be grabbed via the Beta channel, allowing early adopters to test the next iteration of the company’s open source browser. “The Google Chrome Beta channel for Windows has been updated to 4.1.249.1036,” Orit Mazor, Google Chrome Team, revealed.
Google is moving ahead with the development of what it considers a minor update to version 4.0. The search giant offered the final version of Chrome 4.0 at the start of this year, and appeared to consider going straight to v5 next. This will, however, not be the case. Users will first be upgraded to version 4.1 of Chrome, and only subsequently to Chrome 5. At this point in time, Google is building Chrome 4.1 and 5 in parallel, although the former belongs to the Beta channel, while the latter is developed under the Dev channel.
Mazor chose to highlight two changes delivered with the Chrome 4.1.249.1036 Beta update, namely cookie improvements and a bug fix for the Translate infobar. Here are the steps that could have been used to reproduce the Translate Bar: “Go to a Hebrew-language page. Wait for Translate Bar. Translate Bar should appear,” the bug description reveals, adding that the bar is not displayed to users of Chrome 4.1 Builds that preceded 4.1.249.1036.
In addition, a range of issues were resolved, correcting the way that Chrome dealt with cookies. Ahead of 4.1.249.1036, synchronous XHR failed to pump messages only if there was a need to show a cookie prompt. In addition, some websites are no longer prevented from setting cookies for users that are browsing with Chrome, and Google has also taken care of performance issues related to the manner in which Chrome was handling cookies.
Google Chrome 4.1.249.1036 Beta is available for download here.