14 DAY TRIAL // After receiving feedback on Chrome Beta with chrome:flags disabled, the team of engineers at Google is now happy to launch Chrome 14.0.835.162 Beta with chrome:flags re-enabled.
Last week, Chrome Program Manager Anthony Laforge informed via the Google Chrome Releases blog that their open source web browser had been updated to version 14.0.835.159 Beta for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame.
The focus of that build was to investigate some stability issues. The team was specifically “looking to see how greatly flags usage contributes to our stability metrics, hence we are temporarily disabling them,” Laforge wrote last week.
It appears that whatever Google was looking for they’ve not found it, and re-enabled flags, a feature that provides access to a slew of experimental features, including disabling hyperlink auditing, or a new print preview screen.
Now, the same Anthony Laforge is proud to announce that the Beta channel has been updated to 14.0.835.162 for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame.
According to Laforge, this release not only re-enables chrome:flags, it also disables some of the enhanced completion functionality that they introduced in 13.0 releases for the omnibox.
As usual, the smaller changes that go into each release are detailed in the full change log.
Chrome requires an Intel-based computer with at least 128MB of memory. All users (Mac, Windows, Linux) can download their Stable, Beta and Dev builds of Chrome using the links below.
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Download Google Chrome for Linux (Free)
Chrome Stable and Chrome Dev are yet to be updated with any new features since their lastest revisions last week.
For example, the latest update on the Stable channel disables the DigiNotar certificate authority in Chrome while investigations continue. Mozilla has done the same, and so has Apple, by releasing Security Update 2011-005.