The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.342.3 for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms

This release improves stability and fixes some known crashers (such as Issues: 37035, 37674, 37567)

• All:  Form auto-fill is not enabled by default (Issue 37466) - Fixed on Trunk
• Windows: Browser crashes on quiting with Authentication dialog opened (Issue: 37698)  - Fixed on Trunk
• Linux: Chromium Bookmark Sync Not Working (Issue: 36460)

​The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.342.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms and 5.0.342.0 ChromeFrame
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All

• Extension content scripts no longer run multiple times after fragment (ie #hash) navigations (Issue:35924)
• Early version of Geolocation API now available with following caveats:

1. To enable, run the browser with --enable-geolocation
2. Wifi based location is only supported on Windows and Mac (not OSX 10.6 for now)
3. Permissions are not persisted (will re-prompt every time) and associated UI is incomplete.

Mac

• Improved plugin stability (Issue:35081,36928)
• AutoFill Preferences UI Updates
• Translate infobars are now implemented (Issue:34466)
• Mac History menu now has favicons andno longer lists duplicates of Recently Closed sites
  (Issues: 20464 and 21314)
• Added HTML5 databases to the Mac cookie manager (Issue: 35191)

More details about additional changes are available in the svn log of all revisions.

• Automatic translation of web pages
• More content settings to let you control whether web sites can store cookies, load images, use plug-ins, run JavaScript or show pop-ups. You can find these new settings in under Options > Under the hood > Privacy.

• [Linux] Fixed the dependency problem that caused extra packages to get pulled in for installing Google Chrome. (Issue 35639)
• [Mac, Linux] Fixed an issue where an error resolving a proxy server would not try a direct connection. (Issue 32316)
• [Mac, Linux] Fixed an extensions bug that could crash the entire browser. (Issue 34778)
• [Mac, Linux] Fixed an issue in the cross-site scripting auditor that could prevent Google translate from working on sites. (Issue 33115)

The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.335.0 for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.

All

• Support "cache-bypassing reload"; this is hooked to various accelerators on different platforms (e.g. shift-reload, ctrl-reload, etc.) (Issue 1906)
• [r38877, r39018, r39040, r39133, r39346, r39524] Fix numerous issues relating to new Content Settings functionality (Issues 34633, 34668, 35011, 35775, 36021)
• [r39285] Fix crash when alert() is called from extension popup (Issue 33698)
• [r39365] When a single tab is open, "Close other tabs" context menu option should be grayed out (Issue 35576)
• [r39381] Remove all infobars from a tab when its renderer crashes (Issue 36035)
• [r39412] Fix crash adding/deleting bookmark/folder when browser sync is on and the network is not available (Issue 36200)
• [r39670] Do not send extra blur and focus events if popup menu is showing (Issue 23499)
• [r39682] Fix crash when dragging bookmarks (Issue 36473)

Windows

• [r39328, r39564] Fix issues relating to new Content Settings functionality (Issue 35118, 36079)
• [r39408] Fix a crash when installing an extension from incognito mode (Issue 36077)
• [r39461] Fix star button theming (Issue: 35028)
• [r39676] "Remove" and "remove all" buttons in cookie manager should not be enabled when nothing is selected (Issue 34886)

Mac

• [r39240] Fix Mac startup theme perf regression (Issue 34775)
• [r39389, r39467, r39485] Add client SSL certificate support for Mac (Issue 16831)
• Enable Full Screen mode (Issue 31638)
• [r39231] Adds grippys to the left side of the Browser Actions container to resize the container (they do not work yet) (Issue 26990)
• [r39158] Show icon in omnibox when popups were blocked (Issue 35594)

Linux

• Fix package dependencies in .deb package (Issue 35639)
• [r38999] Fix crash with some extensions (Issue 35577)
• [r39160, r39257] Fix issues relating to new Content Settings functionality (Issues 34941, 35861)
• [r39250] Fix crash when editing a bookmark in the bookmark manager (Issue 35438)
• [r39251] Implement the new AutoFill section of the Options dialog (Issue 33025)
• [r39436] Failing NSS version check should not be a fatal error (Issue 33163)
• [r39669] Add "deb" and "rpm" to dangerous extension list (Issue 31144)

The Google Chrome Beta channel for Mac and Linux has been updated to 5.0.307.9. This release fixes a few issues to make the browser a bit more reliable:

• [Mac, Linux] Fixed a tab crash that could be triggered by visiting wordpress.com, http://acid3.acidtests.org/, and many other sites. (Issue 35498)
• [Mac, Linux] Fixed a tab crash in image loading. (Issue 32230) 
• [Linux] Improved font bolding for fonts without native bold. (Issue 22360)

All

• [r38242] Don't crash when a theme specifies a nonexistent image. (Issue: 31719)

• [r38319] Honor modifiers for clicks on home button – cmd-clicking the home button now opens your home page in a new tab. (Issue: 34900)
• [r38204] Implemented writing direction context menu in text input fields.
• [r38504] Add local storage nodes to the cookie manager (Issue: 33068)

• [r38320] Use of Freetype's emboldening for fonts that don't provide bold. Fixes the sometimes blurry bold fonts. (Issue: 22360)
• [r38372] Can now drag and drop bookmarks from Firefox. (Issue: 34141)
• [r38246] Implement content blocking address bar icons and bubbles (Issue: 33314)

• Chrome for Linux and Mac OS 10.6 can now run Native Client modules directly, no plugin required. To enable this features, run Chrome with the following command line flags --internal-nacl --enable-gpu-plugin --no-sandbox.
• Platform-independent NPAPI extensions for 2D, 3D, and mouse/keyboard events are now available.
• We'd like to hear from you. Please send feedback to native-client-discuss@googlegroups.com,

What's new on Mac since the last Beta update?

• Extensions (finally!)
• Bookmark sync
• Bookmark manager
• Cookie manager
• Task manager

Highlights of Linux Fixes

• [r34915] Fix a hang on many sites using custom fonts. (Issue: 29861)

• [r37193, r36423, others] Improvements in GTK theme mode, using system colors in more places (new tab page, highlights, scroll bars). (Issue: 25831, 29948))
• [r37201] We now also will load plugins from ~/.config/$PRODUCT_NAME/Plugins. (Issue: 22261)
• Improved complex text support, fixing a number of bugs in Hebrew/Arabic/Hindi/etc. display.
• [r34222] OOM killer should now kill runaway tabs before it kills the browser. (Issue:29752)

Highlights of Mac Fixes

• [r36016] Support pinch to zoom on the Mac. (Issue: 16305)

• [r35440] Cmd-three finger swipe opens prev/next page in new tab. (Issue: 29804)

• [r35922] Support the PUT HTTP verb in Google ChromeFrame in the IE host network stack implementation. (Issue: 31629)
• [r36037] Browser contents did not resize on control-+/-. (Issue: 31672)
• [r36130] Wave upload operations performed within Google ChromeFrame would cause the Wave application to freeze. (Issue: 26375)
• [r36749, r36831] Fixed issue which pervented the deletion of cookies with JavaScript. (Issues: 32546, 30786)
• [r36814] Url anchor values were getting stripped from window.location (Issue: 27270)
• [r36898] Include the full Google Chrome version number in the user agent string. (Issue: 29258)
• [r37197] Unload and BeforeUnload handlers would not get invoked within pages inside ChromeFrame. (Issue: 31853)
• [r37585] In IE8 new windows opened within Google ChromeFrame via window.open calls at times bypass the host network stack. (Issue: 33516)
• [r37981] Issue 23175 - cf:xxx namespace conflict with Coldfusion, removed cf: protocol (Issues: 22721, 23006, 29350, 23175)
• [r38021] IE crashes if we close a Google ChromeFrame tab quickly enough. (Issue: 34389)

The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.317.0 for Windows

• [r37939] (Windows/Linux) Do not select a word by right-click on an editable field in a web page (Issue: 8841)
• [r37411] (Extensions) Adds a new experimental processes module to the extensions API. (Issue: 32303)

• Automatic translation does not work for Chinese language sites (Issue: 43803)
• Uninstall problem on Google Chrome and Chromium (Issue: 34652)
• Crashes following the installing of a current Beta/Stable release after an uninstall (Issues 34794, 34688).
• Multiple exceptions can occur, related to the Content Settings UI. (Issue: 34692)
• When "Ask me ..." is set, cookies are still set without asking. (Issue: 34693)
• Pop-up settings changed in bubble are not saved. (Issue: 34781)

Linux

• [r37017] Preliminary desktop notifications support. (Why not libnotify? See our technical FAQ.) (Issue: 23954)
• [r37193] Use GTK+ selection colors when using GTK theme mode. (Issue: 25831)
• [r37201] We now also will load plugins from ~/.config/$PRODUCT_NAME/Plugins. (Issue: 22261)
• Improved complex text support, fixing a number of bugs in Hebrew/Arabic/Hindi/etc. display.

• [r37023] Use default downloads directory on Vista and Windows 7 (except where it is the desktop) (Issue: 13610)
• [r36938 and others] Start work on Content Settings window and sub-dialogs (Issue: 32719)

• Improved plugin stability.
• [r37204][r37210] Cocoa NPAPI plugins will now get NPCocoaEventMouseDragged and NPCocoaEventFlagsChanged events (Issues: 32996, 31846)
• [r37010] Fix crash that sometimes happened when dragging tabs (Issue: 29906)
• [r37004] Fix %cpu in task manager. (Issue: 32464)
• [r37139] Give the cookies manager a search field. (Issue: 32328)
• [r37247] Make copying of big images more robust (Issue: 26822)
• [r37114] Improve task manager resizing behavior (Issues: 33134, 33133)

• [Mac] Crash when deleting cookies (Issue: 33533).

The stable channel has been updated to 4.0.249.78 for Windows, and includes the following features and security fixes (since 3.0):

• [r36632] We now only use our own FTP parsing code; please file bugs if you encounter any problems while navigating FTP sites. (Issue: 25520)

• See All

• [r35949, r36195, r36432, r36437, r36562, r36582] Various improvements to the bookmark manager.
• [r35959] Fix mis-sized download shelf close button. (Issue: 31785)
• [r35977, r36087, r36088, r36096, r36557] Enable the task manager. (Issue: 13156)
• [r36016] Support pinch to zoom on the Mac. (Issue: 16305)
• [r36021] Implements context menus for Page and Browser Actions. (Issue: 30655)
• [r36124] Eliminate Helper zombies. (Issue: 32001)
• [r36242] Quake Live Plugin will now load. (Issue: 24788)
• [r36259, r36370] Fix issues with browser action popups. (Issues: 32161, 31097, 32162)
• [r36416, r36533, r36554] Support plugin cursors, and fix cursor flicker with fullscreen plugins. (Issue: 20717)
• [r36422] Improve scroll performance on some sites, e.g. http://www.starcraft2.com/faq.xml (Issues: 502056, 28954)
• [r36182] Controls in QuickTime content now work. (Issue: 24952)
• [r36361] Double-clicking a plugin will no longer select it. (Issue: 31358)

• [r36423] Theme the NTP with GTK+ colors when matching GTK. (Issue: 29948)
• [r36073] Fix to way we identify the active window. (Issue: 31971)