http://www.roboformchrome.com/ Unofficial forums for RoboForm and Google Chrome. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:09:37 +0000 http://www.roboformchrome.com/topic/google-chrome-channel-chooser#post-35 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:16:26 +0000 Claudiu 35@http://www.roboformchrome.com/ <p>The Google Chrome team launched the Dev Channel, which gives you, if you're interested, access to the latest builds of Google Chrome. However, this means also that you get some of the most unstable "night builds" and crashes might happen, but you also get to see the new features and corrections that they did.</p> <p>In order to get access to these Dev builds, you need to download a tool called Google Chrome Channel Chooser and select the Dev option. This tool is available here: <a href="http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-1.0.exe" rel="nofollow">http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-1.0.exe</a><br /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/spuby2000/SM_2S7saE1I/AAAAAAAAAaU/9GN_nb3dW6w/s400/chrome-channel.jpg" alt="Chrome Channel Chooser" /><br /> Once this tool is installed, follow these steps to get the latest development build for Google Chrome:</p> <ul> <li>Select the Dev option.</li> <li>Click Update to save your choice.</li> <li>Click Close.</li> <li>In Google Chrome, choose the About Google Chrome option.<br /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/spuby2000/SM_2TLVpTaI/AAAAAAAAAac/n0tF_Hzv3xU/s400/chrome-dev.jpg" alt="Update Chrome" /> </li> <li>Once it detects a new update, click Update Now to install the current development release.</li> <li>Restart Google Chrome.</li> </ul> <p>If it crashes too much, switch back. I for one enjoy seeing what they did lately. The last build it just installed is 0.2.152.1 and one of the new changes I'm sure going to enjoy is "Fix YouTube (and other Flash videos) halting if the time-advance slider is used." </p> http://www.roboformchrome.com/topic/google-chrome-beta-0214929-the-first-patch#post-22 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:39:36 +0000 Claudiu 22@http://www.roboformchrome.com/ <p>Google Chrome silently updated itself to version 0.2.149.29 (apparently <a href="http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2008/09/beta-release-0214929.html">since September 5</a>), but this version doesn't contain any new features, it just fixes some critical security flaws such as:</p> <ul> <li>a buffer overflow vulnerability in handling long filenames that display in the Save As... dialog. Issue: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1414" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1414</a></li> <li>a buffer overflow vulnerability in handling link targets displayed in the status area when the user hovers over a link. Issue: reported internally to Google</li> <li>an out-of-bounds memory read when parsing URLs ending with :%. This is a low risk that can be used to crash the entire browser, possibly causing loss of data in the current session. Issue: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=122" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=122</a></li> <li>changing the default Downloads directory if it is set to Desktop, and ensure that Desktop cannot be the default (to avoid "malicious cluttering of the desktop with unwanted downloads").</li> </ul> <p>Very good of them to have fixed these issues, but I still would have appreciated a pop-up or something letting me know that the program itself was updated - even if it's for our own protection, I don't like having things automatically accessing the internet and downloading/installing files. So as mentioned above, you don't have to worry about downloading anything since Google Chrome automatically updated itself. </p>