14 DAY TRIAL // The Google Chrome development branch, a browser built on the Blink layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, has received another update for the 36.x branch and can now be tested by users.
Google developers have released a new build of their Chrome browser, 36.0.1976.2, quite a hefty update full of various changes and improvements. Even so, it’s not recommended that you switch to the new version if you are already running one of the two other branches, Stable or Beta.
Developers usually make the big changes in the Development branch and most of those modifications trickle down into the Beta, and then finally into the Stable. It may take a while for all the features to be implemented for the majority of users, but this is the safest way to do it.
According to the developers, precise memory info has been enabled in layout tests, the socket is now opened through the symlink target when connecting to running instance, a GPU handle leak has been suppressed, the non-drawing SolidColorLayer has been removed, compositing for GPU rasterization hints has been disabled, the GPU rasterization per flag is now done per page instead of per layer, a media stream video track has been added to the output API, and UI fixes have been implemented for the delete account button in the new avatar bubble.
Also, unneeded methods have been removed from the PepperWidget for the fullscreen pepper, the PDF extension can now run in incognito mode, a few missing initializers have been fixed, a second version of the credentials passing API has been added, a checkbox on the stop-sync dialog has been added to allow users to choose whether to delete all their data (profile), 8bpp screens are now supported in X11, support has been added for the mapping node tree on the client, and the correct support for videos with YUVJ420P color format has been implemented.
The Google Chrome developers only provide two kinds of binary files, deb and rpm, and no source. If you are not using a Linux distribution capable of reading this type of files, you will have to wait until it hits your repositories.
Usually, a complete list of changes can be found on the official website. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.
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