The Dev channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.10 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms

The Chrome team is happy to announce the availability of Chrome for Android on Intel x86 devices, which means that if you have an Android device based on x86, you’ll now be able to experience the speed, security, and simplicity of Chrome.

The Chrome OS settings in the administrator control panel has been updated. This update brings new features including:

• Google Translate
• Scatter Chrome OS auto updates

Known issues are available here. Enterprise customers can report an issue by contacting support.

Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome

The Beta channel has been updated to 22.0.1229.91 for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  A complete log of what changed can be found in the svn revision log.  Instructions and download links for our different release channels are available on the Chromium wiki.

RoboHornet Alpha 1. Just yesterday, Google has launched an open source benchmark tool called RoboHornet, which according to the search giant itself, “encompasses all aspects of browser performance and everything that matters to web developers, like performance of layout and localStorage”. Now, before you get all cranky and claim that it’s just another useless test [...]

The Dev channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.6 for (All|Windows|Mac|Linux|ChromeFrame) platforms

• Updated V8 - 3.13.7.2
• Several fixes to forced compositing mode (Issues: 150881, 157920)
• Fixed known crashers (Issue: 146689, and several audio ones.) 

• Fixed path lengths for storage partitions (Issue: 151450)
• Fixed CJK input for Metro mode (Issue: 149136)

• Fixed WebRTC audio (Issue: 150570)

In today’s Chrome Stable release, we’ve added support for more natural gaming on web apps. If you enjoy 3D gaming, check out the technical details on the Chromium blog. For everyone else, sit back, relax, and enjoy today’s bundle of Chrome goodness through automatic updates.

• Mouse Lock API availability for Javascript
• Additional Windows 8 enhancements
• Continued polish for users of HiDPI/Retina screens

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The Stable channel has been updated to 21.0.1180.90 for Mac 10.5 users only. You can see the list of changes here. If you find new issues, please let us know by filing a bug at http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry

Chrome for iOS has been updated to 21.0.1180.82 and is now available in the App Store.  This version brings compatibility with the new iPhone 5, along with fixes for Gmail on iOS 6.  You can get the update via the App Store, or from the update prompt inside of Chrome.  Known issues are available on the Chrome support site. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

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Before I start looking at recent advances that Google implemented into the Windows 8 version of its Chrome web browser, I’d like to take a moment to point out that I’m still not entirely sure how apps that run on the startpage but not installed from the Windows Store are called. Do I simply refer to them as apps? Or are they called Windows Store apps regardless of the fact that they have no connection with the built-in store?

Anyway, Google like Mozilla, is working on an app version of its Chrome browser that works directly as an application on Windows 8′s startpage. Before you can use the app version you need to make Chrome the default web browser on the system.To make Chrome the default browser load the settings using this url chrome://chrome/settings/ and locate the default browser option there to do just that. Once you have done that, you can use Chrome both on the startpage directly as a fullscreen application and on the classic desktop.

First thing that you may notice in the most recent dev version of the browser is an option to switch to the “other” version of the browser. You can switch from the desktop version of Chrome to the app version (Google calls it Windows 8 Mode) and vice versa taking all open tabs with you in the process.

Please note that you can only run one Chrome version at the time. If you have configured Chrome to launch in Windows 8 mode, the browser will launch in that mode even if you launch it from the desktop.

The two Chrome versions on Windows 8 previously were using different user profiles which Google in a recent version changed. Google Chrome on Windows 8 is now sharing the user profile, so that extensions, the browsing history and other data are available in both versions of the browser. This puts Google one step ahead of Mozilla who recently announced that add-ons synchronization between both browser versions is not included in the initial release.

According to the recent report by Strangeloop, a company that specializes in website performance, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was 8% faster in loading the majority of web pages when compares to the Google’s Chrome. As stated in the document, IE10 average load time was 6.392 seconds, beating Firefox (6.395 seconds) and Google Chrome 20 (6.906). Interestingly [...]

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• Fixed Crash when closing maximized window via Ctrl+W (147635)

• Fixed Instant search (148578)

• UI improvements

Known Issues:

• 34334 - External display gets cropped after resume from sleep

• 147666 - File Manager downloads "open" button missing. Workaround: Right click to open

• Updated WebKit - 537.11
• Fixed simultaneous audio playback is broken (Issue: 150003)
• Fixed bug with Web Intents and non-sticky defaults (Issue: 148740)
• Audio may drop out under certain play / pause cycles. (Issue: 150702)