Google Chrome 5 released as developer's build

General Topics
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Nothing Much

Some new settings and lots of bugs :-\

If you are adventurous then try it

Read here

http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-10444735-12.html

I had expected more ;D

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yeah, the new content settings panel doesn’t work at all, nothing is retained, I just posted there:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=5ad5079f318e9617&hl=en

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@ Logos

Yes, I can see this here in my PC too…Maybe it was too early :-\

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yeah, I’m surprised, I’ve always been on the dev channel and it’s the first time something is really broken. I’m not kidding, normally everything works on dev versions, and stability is there too.

5

I just can’t get over their version numbering Chrome seems only to have been around five minutes and here we are on version 5. I have never been able to get on with Chrome when I tried it (twice).

If avast had the same version numbering policy, I just wonder what we would be in instead of avast 5.0.396 ???

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yeah I was also smiling about it earlier today, these version numbers :smiley:

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just a few thoughts I’m having about Chrome atm… amazing speed yes, but in the the end that’s just about it. They seem to have difficulties to make it properly configurable, hiding behind the argument that they want to keep it as simple as possible…and version 5, that I’d rather call beta 5 ;D , is a million miles behind Firefox in terms of configuration possibilities. Security I don’t know…they say it’s sandboxed…all I see is that the program is installed at user level (ie in the profile), and I don’t think, even if access rights must play a role there, that it’s enough to protect the rest of the system from anything. Also the fact that Chrome persists in using Windows EFS certificate to encrypt personal data (passwords and other things included in “Web Data” file) doesn’t make me feel that happy about it >>> no way to ever get a master password with this; the certificate is used transparently in Windows once you’re logged in so…

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Impressively said.

Google Chrome is making fun of open source by using an open source project Chromium and being closed

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the thing is going forward with the version numbers and being so slow at developing it at the same time, not listening to the users etc (master password, clear private data back in wrench menu etc…), they make themselves a bit ridiculous.