Download Google Chrome 6.0.458.1

Google has released the latest update in the developers channel of Google Chrome. Google Chrome 6.0.458.1 dev is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users who want to check out the very latest technology built into Google’s web browser. The udpate fixes several issues affecting users, a couple of them related to AutoFill. It also fixes a bug which prevented Chrome dev from launching on Windows.

Issues fixed in Google Chrome 6.0.458.1 dev:

· The InfoBar is no longer shown when the user first submits a form;
· AutoFill now continuously updates profile data when the user submits new forms. Profile data is now aggregated and the AutoFill InfoBar has been removed, in order to achieve this;
· When editing a field in a previously auto-filled form, Chrome now only displays unique suggestions;
· Enabling sync no longer freezes Chromium;
· Chrome now starts if other FFmpeg DLLs are present on the system - Windows specific.

There is still a known issue in the latest Chrome build. In certain cases, applying several themes in a row leads to a crash. The issue has been patched by Google developers, but it hasn’t made it into Chrome 6.0.458.1. The next developers channel release should include the patch as well.

There aren’t many visible updates in the latest Google Chrome, it’s mostly a bug-fixing release. The previous release, Google Chrome 6.0.453.1 introduced the consolidated menu buttons on Windows. Google has been toying with the idea of grouping the Page and the Wrench menus into a single one, in the quest for less clutter and a minimal interface. The Page menu is rarely used and the most popular entries have now been folded into the main Wrench menu. This has been turned on by default on Windows for now, but should be introduced for Mac and Linux soon.

Google Chrome for Windows is available for download here.
Google Chrome for Linux is available for download here.
Google Chrome for Mac is available for download here.