Download Google Chrome 2.0.157.0

The developers of Chrome have released a new beta of Google’s internet browser in the form of version 2.0.157.0. According to the developers, work has been done in this version to further stabilize the 2.0 branch. Bugs have been fixed and a number of improvements in the layout have been made. The 2.0.157.0 beta is available through the usual step-by-step plan be installed. Chrome is baked in such a way that each tab is run in its own process and can be used as a desktop application. Furthermore, the web browser is equipped with its own Javascript engine. Compared to the 1.0 series, the 2.0 branch has a number of new features. The browser is equipped with form autocomplete, full-page zoom and the use of profiles. The full changelog of the new Chrome is posted below:

This is a working bug fix release. Most of the recent work has been focused on stabilization of branch, fixing bugs, adding and enhancing layout tests. Work continues to progress on our Mac and Linux test shell releases.Bug Fixes:

• [r7615]Fixes a crash related to tab dragging (Issue: 5819)
• [r7616]Add a terminating NULL to the text read from the edit control. (Issue: 6053)
• [r7620]Enables restoring of keyboard focus to the toolbar button that last had focus, before focus was lost (eg to a dialog, another window, etc). Setting focus using the toolbar focus keyboard shortcut will still reset focus to the first enabled, visible button (starting at the Back button). (Issue: 5750)
• [r7644]In some cases (related to window.open() with no contents, see bug for more details) we may get notified of SSL error or mixed-contents without a NavigationEntry. (Issue: 3845)
• [r7664]If the URL text has no scheme, and starts with ftp., then default the scheme to ftp (Issue: 565)
• [r7669]Fixes an issue where Chrome hangs “Waiting for cache” (Issue: 4769)
• [r7703]Attempt to fix an issue related to SSL navigation. (Issue: 5800)
• [r7705]Fix for auto-detection of encoding (Issue: 3702)
• [r7724]Add debug menu to Linux test_shell: (Issues: 6050, 5122)
• [r7747]Fixup and verify URLs from the server before adding them to the autocomplete dropdown. (Issue: 5806)
• [r7792]Make sure that the active tab contents is destroyed when navigating back from the tab contents to the downloads page. Which fixes an issue w/ Flash not being signaled to cleanup (Issue: 5828)
• [r7798]Add support for custom cursors set by windowless plugins. (Issue: 3800)
• [r7822]Prevent overwrite pre-filled values ​​when autofilling a form. (Issue: 6197)
• [r7823]Fixes issue where auto-complete popups would linger on the screen. (Issues: 5830, 3844)
• [r7873]Updating user dictionaries for 19 languages ​​(Issue: 2837)
• [r7882]Measure how often the users are encountering MD5 (Issue: 6102)