14 DAY TRIAL // Google is incrementing the Beta Chrome channel with version 14.0.835.159 for all supported platforms, including Mac OS X. This beta release is somewhat important, as it disables a key feature of the web browser, albeit only temporarily.
Update: article modified to remove an erroneous reference to the Chrome Flags extension. The text has been replaced with information on the latest Chrome updates on the Stable and Dev channels, as well as newer information about Apple’s own move to eliminate DigiNotar from the list of trusted root certificates.
Program Manager, Anthony Laforge informs via the Google Chrome Releases blog that Chrome has been updated to 14.0.835.159 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame on the Beta channel.
He reveals that Chrome 14 now has chrome:flags disabled.
“We are currently investigating some stability issues and are looking to see how greatly flags usage contributes to our stability metrics, hence we are temporarily disabling them,” writes Laforge.
As usual, users are already whining in the comments at a time when they’re needed the most to provide valuable feedback information.
There are other, smaller changes that went into this release as well, but for that, users must navigate to the changelog.
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Google Chrome has recently received updates on the Dev and Stable channels as well.
One notable change is the updated Stable build (13.0.782.220) which revokes trust for SSL certificates issued by DigiNotar-controlled intermediate CAs used by the Dutch PKIoverheid program.
At the time of this writing (updated, see above), Apple had not released its own update to address the issue, but later that day (September 9) the Mac maker launched Security Update 2011-005 for Mac OS X users.
Both OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard users are required to install the patch. More on this, here.