Google Brings Chrome 5 Developer’ Release

Google has released new developer’s version for its popular browser. As this is only for early testing so this developer’s build comes up with some problems like all the themes are not compatible still but we hope the Mountain View based company will soon release this version 5 in stable form.

Currently this build is available for both Windows and Mac users. Many bug fixes and improvements have been done already with the addition of some new features.

In Windows version “Content Settings” window has been introduced under Options but this window is not available for mac users. Under Content Settings you can manage cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups.

On the other hand Mac version has got many improvements in code and bug fixes. A search option has been included to manage the cookies.

The major changes in Google Chrome 5 are:

Windows

• [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)

Mac

• 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)

Known Issues

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

[via CNet]