14 DAY TRIAL // The Development branch of Google Chrome, a browser built on the Blink layout engine that aims to be minimalistic and versatile at the same time, has been updated to version 38.0.2107.2 for all the supported platforms.
Google Chrome usually features three distinct branches: Dev, Beta, and Stable. The development branch is where all the new features, changes, and other improvements are made.
Most of the changes made in Google Chrome Dev usually land in the Beta version later on, but there is no guarantee that might happen. This means that some features might be present in this release and not in the next one.
This is not a huge update, but it does pack quite a few modifications. It will be a while before we see any of these changes trickle into the stable releases and some of them can't arrive soon enough.
According to the changelog, all the references to pointers looking invalid have been removed, the unused FileSystemMsg_DidOpenFile message has been removed, device registration function has been fixed, ExtensionService comments about various methods being deprecated have been added, a version of Blink has been added, all the fonts are now loaded inside the rendered, tests for SwipePinchDetector have been added, a number of warnings in Mesa have been disabled, and a single SSH connection is now opened when testing.
Also, support has been added for loading pak files from arbitrary file regions, windows are now prevented from being put into fullscreen upon startup on the Linux platform, the V8 engine has been updated, and the serial API and permission features have been moved to extensions.
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.
Also, keep in mind that if you intend to use this browser on the Linux platform, the Java elements will not work. In order to access Java components on a website, you will need to downgrade. You can find an older version of Google Chrome on Softpedia, along with all the other versions, but you will also have to disable the repositories for Google Chrome so that it doesn't upgrade along with everything else.
Usually, a complete list of changes can be found on the official website.
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Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.