14 DAY TRIAL // Two new beta versions of Google’s open source web browser have been released for supported platforms, including Mac OS X, with the development culminating at build 11.0.696.57, which fixes critical regression issues found in former beta release.
In a couple of blog updates posted yesterday by Google’s Karen Grunberg, the development team behind Google Chrome revealed that Beta testers had a more reliable build to play around with - Chrome 11.0.696.50 for Macintosh, Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms.
The new version fixed three bugs, one of which did not allow the Adobe Flash Player plugin to load until the tab got activated.
Going to settings from notification popup used to crash Chrome, but not anymore according to Grunberg.
Finally, the new beta update disables speech input for read-only and disabled input fields.
However, as soon as the bits were made available for download, Chrome developers were confronted with having to deal with three regressions issues (bugs caused by the attempt to fix other bugs), which needed immediate attention.
As such, Chrome version 11.0.696.57 for Macintosh, Windows, Linux and Chrome Frame was later released. The bug fixes are detailed in the changelog here. As usual, those looking to get the full scoop are handed a link to the SVN revision log.
Chrome 12 is also up for grabs on the Dev channel with performance fixes and UI tweaks. Learn more here.
Mac users eager to run Chrome will require an Intel-based machine with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (all incremental versions are supported, including Mac OS X 10.6.7) installed, a minimum 128 MB of RAM, and roughly 100 MB of free hard disk space.
All available versions of Chrome for Mac (Dev, Beta, Stable) can be downloaded from the link below.