Download Google Chrome 2.0.172.5 Beta

A new beta release of version 2.0 of Google’s web browser was released on Tuesday. To be able to download the development version, channels will have to be switched, as Google calls it. There are three different channels, namely stable, beta and developer preview, and by signing up on one of those channels you can get updates. How that works exactly, will be this page explained. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Beta Update: 2.0.172.5

Google Chrome’s Beta channel has been updated to 2.0.172.5. This release includes all the patches and fixes between 2.0.169.1 and 2.0.172.2.

Some highlights for this release:

• Lots of bug and stability fixes!
• Added support to cache some form submissions so that when you press back, you don’t get the annoying “Confirm Form Submission”
• Autocomplete popup now appears when you press up/down key in a text-field.
• Visited links from normal browsing are no longer being displayed as visited (ie purple) in incognito mode.
• Pressing the Del key while a item is selected in the form suggestion popup deletes that suggestion.