Download Google Chrome 2.0.168.0 Beta

On Friday, a new beta release of version 2.0 of Google’s web browser was released in Google Chrome’s Dev channel. To be able to download the development version, you will have to switch channels, as Google calls it. How that works exactly, will be this page explained. New in this release includes improved support for pacfiles and a newer version of the Google-developed one is being developed V8 Javascript engine supplied. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

New

• NTLM auth without automatic logon (Issues 6567, 6824)
• Remote Desktop and Vista Theme changes now work nicely
• New French and Polish dictionaries
• Better support for PAC files and use of V8 to process them (use –proxy-resolver-v8 to try)

Fixes

• More improvements to full screen mode
• Many crash and stability fixes

Known Issues

• Issue 5127: Ctrl-T accelerator for a new tab does not select Omnibox
• Issue 8438: Browser hangs if history page shows after clearing history
• Issue 8456: History tab search tab eats every alternate clicks
• Issue 8453: Regression: about:network dialog shows up behind current Chrome window
• Issue 8479: Javascript alerts don’t work in New Tab Page.
• Issue 8437: Cannot switch to background Chrome window with modal dialog open
• Issue 8412: Copying most visited page screenshot and selecting paste and go causes crash
• Issue 8399: Bookmarking a page not reflected on history page when open
• Issue 8318: “Exit Full Screen” link does nothing
• Issue 8372: Background paint issues with Task manager in maximized mode.
• Issue 8345: Browser crash on “Remove/Remove All” of passwords
• Issue 8289: Drag drop of bookmark from IE/FF crashes tab and then loads the page
• Issue 8071: Javascript debugger doesn’t come up for constrained windows
• Issue 8040: Zoom is broken in [New Tab]
• Issue 8016: Fonts and Languages ​​Tab is truncated.
• Issue 7920: Ctrl+Shift+T should not undo SSL Error page !