Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 292
An anonymous reader writes "Google on Tuesday released a new stable version of its internet browser, Chrome 7. The latest update is part of Google's promise in July to release a new stable version of Chrome about every six weeks. Chrome 7 comes with hundreds of bug fixes, an updated HTML5 parser, the File API, and directory upload via input tag. It is available in the stable and beta channels for Windows, Mac, and Linux. 'The main focus was the hundreds of bug fixes,' Jeff Chang, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post."
One request...please! (Score:3, Insightful)
Can I open a local file from a menu? Is that too much to ask???
Every 6 weeks (Score:4, Insightful)
So by the time we reach the end of 2011, we'll be on Chrome 16???
What's the point of all these frequent releases? Maybe I ought to give this browser a try... but Firefox and seaMonkey have served me well since I quit Mozilla Netscape, so I'm inclined not to change. ("If it ain't broke...")
Re:7.0? Really? (Score:3, Insightful)
Bookmark sidebar (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:that's not fast (Score:3, Insightful)
If IE took that version numbering manipulation from the start... Meaning a new IE version with every Windows Update... What would we be on? IE4000?
Re:7.0? Really? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is not to say that Google is not catching up fast, just that they are focusing on version numbers in their add copies, while primarily fixing bugs in actuality.
Compare this to firms that are actually trying to deliver a useful feature set to customers, rather than just focusing on metrics that have long been shown to be meaningless. Firefox is happy at 3.6 Safari is happy at 5. Opera, which may have been around longer than google itself, is only at 10.63. These are people who deliver useful browser.
Re:7.0? Really? (Score:4, Insightful)
But even if there was a Chrome X 10.whatever, the other browser Opera 11 will still "beat" them. ;-)
And poor seaMokney is only on 2. ;-)
That must be a lousy browser.
Re:One request...please! (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes and the way most people learn keyboard shortcuts is... by first seeing them in the application menu. Putting back the http:// protocol prefix and trailing slash on root directory index would be a good idea too.
Where is print preview for God's sake? (Score:4, Insightful)
Really, can someone convince me that asking for this feature is asking too much after all these Chrome iterations? What's really wrong with this feature that makes it unappealing to implement? Come on Google!
Re:One request...please! (Score:2, Insightful)
Considering Ctrl+O is a ubiquitous standard such that any application down to MS paint to Adobe CS that can open files uses Ctrl+O to open files, I think they saw it at least once.
Re:I don't know about everyone else... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Every 6 weeks (Score:4, Insightful)
So by the time we reach the end of 2011, we'll be on Chrome 16???
What's the point of all these frequent releases?
How is this a "troll"? Looks like an honest question to me. Are questions no longer allowed on slashdot??? Apparently people seeking information are now considered undesirables.
Re:AdBlock (Score:3, Insightful)
Yet it still doesn't have an equivalent to AdBlock Plus. And for the Chrome-heads who point out AdBlock [google.com], it is a good start but still nowhere near as effective. It lets many ads through, it still downloads and just hides a large chunk of ads, and it does not seem to stop flash ads at all.
I acknowledge that the Chrome plug-in has limitations by itself, but I personally find it much more than adequate because I also took a couple of minutes to write a cron script to to download and apply the latest hosts file [mvps.org]. I never see ads; I can't remember the last time I saw a Flash ad, and my bandwidth isn't wasted on ads (or worse).
The Chrome plug-in is only good enough for grandma and average users, but the rest of us have a multi-layered strategy anyway. Firefox is a great browser, but I liked it better when it wasn't so slow and bloated. I'm a happy Chromium user now, and there are no FF plug-ins I miss at all.
Re:AdBlock (Score:3, Insightful)
t's Chrome's fault because scripts can't run before page content is loaded.
Chrome supports onbeforeload, but yes, there are some limitations remaining that are being worked on.
Re:One request...please! (Score:2, Insightful)
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Re:7.0? Really? (Score:3, Insightful)
What Google is doing is applying Lean Software Development [wikipedia.org] principles to eliminate waste and deliver useful features more quickly to customers.
Re:Where is print preview for God's sake? (Score:3, Insightful)
You should not be printing web pages; the website should provide you with a document to print if information is actually needed in dead-tree form.
Right, so you've never printed a page from Google Maps?
Not parading versions (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Every 6 weeks (Score:3, Insightful)
What's the point of all these frequent releases?
My theory is that they are trying to scare the bejesus out of Microsoft and even Mozilla into doing more frequent releases themselves. The main thing holding back Google's entire strategy is that browsers aren't good enough yet. They want to take over the whole business market by moving it into the cloud using Google Apps. But they can't because browsers suck. So they make Chrome - a browser that doesn't suck. It's been helpful but what they really need is to influence the other browsers, and one way to do that is to dispel the mythology that we should expect major improvements to our browsers just once every few years or so. One way to do that is to embarrass everyone else by showing that it's perfectly possible to release a new stable version every month or two if you do it right.
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