14 DAY TRIAL // Google hasn’t yet launched a universal version of Chrome specifically aimed at Windows 10 devices, but in the meantime, the company’s really hard at work to make its desktop browser work flawlessly in the new operating system.
A new update for the stable version of Chrome brings even more fixes on Windows 10, and users are reporting that, after installing this new release, the application no longer freezes when snapping tabs, a bug that had been there since the launch of Windows 10 build 10240 in late July.
The new version of Chrome that brings these improvements is 45.0.2454.93 and is part of the stable version, so if you’re already running the browser, you should get the update automatically.
Additionally, you can download Google Chrome for Windows here.
Known bugs in Chrome on Windows 10
And yet, there still are some bugs in Google Chrome, but the company’s most likely aware of that and future updates should fix these too.
For example, on some PCs, Google Chrome freezes when you maximize the window vertically and drag the top part of the window horizontally, as reddit user maukka points out.
At the same time, the browser still has serious problems playing Shockwave and Flash content, which in most of the cases causes the application to crash completely.
On the other hand, it’s pretty clear that Google is very responsive these days and improving its browser for Windows 10 is clearly a priority, judging by the number of updates that it has released lately.
This could be a sign that Google might actually be interested a little bit more in Microsoft’s new OS than in Windows 8 and Windows Phone, and many hope that the company will decide to bring its apps on smartphones too.
Windows 10 Mobile, the new smartphone OS that Microsoft plans to launch next month, needs Google apps more than ever, but the Mountain View-based search giant is yet to say anything about projects to port its software to this platform.