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Dev Channel Update
Beta Channel Update
The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.58 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues including:
- [171725] Windows controls have red overlay
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Stable Channel Update
- Mac: r177690 Fix renderer crashes when using certain IMEs. (Issue 152566)
- Mac: r178517 Fix microphone input dropout with Pepper Flash. (Issue 168859)
- Chrome Frame: r178591 Fix renderer exiting in certain cases when opening a new Window from Chrome Frame. (Issue 171877)
Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Dharani Govindan
Chrome OS Management Console Update
The Chrome OS Management Console in the administrator control panel has been updated. This update brings new user policies including:
- Video input
Known issues are available here. Enterprise customers can report an issue by contacting support.
Lawrence Lui
Google Chrome
Chrome Beta for Android Update
Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.47 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:
- 143146 - Support for chrome://flags!
Known Issues:
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.46 (Platform version: 3428.92.0) for Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700, cr-48 and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements.
Some highlights of these changes are:
Beta Channel Update
The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.45 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues. There is one known issue:
- [171725] Windows controls on XP have red overlay
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.33 (Platform version: 3428.65.0) for Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700, cr-48 and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. This build contains a number of bug fixes and feature enhancements. Machines will receive this update over the next several days.
Some highlights of these changes are:
Stable Channel Update
- Fixed performance of mouse wheel scrolling. [Issue: 160122]
- Fixed visited links regression. [Issue: 160025]
- Fixed windows installation when installed as admin. [Issue: 166473]
Security fixes and rewards:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.
Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Stable channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.111 (Platform version: 2913.331.0) for all Chrome OS devices. Machines will receive this update over the next several days.
Some highlights of these changes are:
- New firmware version for Acer C7
- New Flash version 11.5.31.5 for x86
- New Flash version 11.5.31.30 for arm
- Stability fixes
The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1386.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1386.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains following updates:
- Fixed marking notifications when opened and closed (Issue: 169388)
- Fixed web popup menus (Issue: 166832)
- Fixed renderer form_autofill_util changes to support Checkboxes and Radiobuttons (Issue: 157636)
- Fixed decoding of URL in bookmark editor (Issue: 165648)
- Added the preferences and UI to make the launcher opt-inable (Issue: 151676)
- Added incognito visualization to items in the new app menu (Issue: 169842)
- Renamed the magnifier names: "Full" -> "Entire screen", "Partial" -> "Lens" (Issue: 166832)
- Enable webkit preference for Chromium to disallow unsafe plugin pasting (Issue: 112325)
- Fixed thumbnail view on Drive (Issue 170022)
- Fixed crash bug in BookmarkEditorView (Issue 167385)
Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.37 on Google Play
Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.37 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:
- 165783: Enable compositing scrollable frames on Android
- 168368: Chrome progress bar should be displayed as soon as the user clicks a link
- 165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
- 162486 - iframe scrolling broken
Known Issues:
The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
The Beta channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues. There is one known issue:
- [170318] The Chrome Apps
Browser Demo does not render correctly.
The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1384.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
The Dev channel has been updated to 26.0.1384.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This build contains improvements in stability and fixes for few other issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.33 (Platform version: 3428.65.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a numbers of stability and feature enhancements. Some highlights of these changes are:
- Improved power consumption on arm devices
- UI fixes
- Crash fixes
Known Issues:
- In some situations, Chrome Sync may not sync any data. Workaround: Restart system and perform sync again (167090)
Chrome Beta for Android Update
Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 25.0.1364.33 on Google Play. This build will be rolling out over the next few hours. This update contains a number of fixes, including:
Beta Channel Update
The Chrome team is happy to announce the promotion of Chrome 25 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. Chrome 25.0.1364.29 contains a number of new improvements, including:
- Improvements in managing and securing your extensions
- Continued testing of search and the new tab page
- Better support for HTML5 time/date inputs
- Javascript speech API support
- Better WebGL error handling
- And lots of other features for developers
Jason Kersey
Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Beta channel has been updated to 23.0.1271.111 (Platform version: 2913.331.0) for new Samsung Chromebook, Samsung Series 5 550, Samsung Series 5, Acer C7 and Acer AC700 and Samsung Series 3 Chromebox. Update: cr48 now also updated!
Some highlights of these changes are:
- New firmware version for Acer C7
- New Flash version 11.5.31.5 for x86
- New Flash version 11.5.31.30 for arm
- Stability fixes
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome
The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
The Dev channel has been updated to 25.0.1364.29 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This update contains additional stability fixes. A full list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Jason Kersey
Google Chrome
Chrome for Android Beta Channel based on Chrome 25
The Chrome Team is excited to announce our first Beta channel release of Chrome for Android, based on Chrome 25. You can download version 25.0.1364.8 from Google Play (note, please use the direct link, you will not find it via the search function in Google Play). Similar to our other platforms, Chrome Beta for Android offers a preview of new features and enhancements currently in development. You can install both Chrome and Chrome Beta side by side on the same device.
Chrome 25 on Android brings a slew of updates and improvements over our current Chrome 18 based stable channel, including better HTML5 support and JavaScript performance. That said, non-Stable channel releases can sometimes be bumpy, and our new Beta release is no exception. The following are some of the larger known issues in today’s release:
- Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S
- Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver
- Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
- 164632 - Editing bookmark feature is broken
- 165244 - Text position handler jumps or disappears when moving
- 163439 - Clicking on links in yahoo.com not navigating on Nexus 7
- 166233 - Unable to submit comments on Facebook posts in desktop version of Facebook
- 165244 - Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
- 167351 - Youtube video controls are lost after returning from fullscreen video mode
- 162486 - iframe scrolling broken

