Google Chrome 7 dev released

[swarfega]

Just a big up for those who like to live on the edge. Version 7 was released yesterday in the dev channel. You can download it from: Download Google Chrome 7.0.503.0 Beta - FileHippo.com

 

[Carl Lawrence]

Downloading it now, try it out when I get home.

 

[Dalek]

˝Just a big up for those who like to live on the edge˝

hahahaha
i love chrome,im gonna install it

 

[blackroseMD1]

Thanks for the heads up. Been running the nightlies for a while now, so no idea when I switched over to 7. Google sure is cooking up version numbers fast though.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Personally I prefer to grab things from Google themselves.

(Beta): http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=betachannel
(Developer): http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel
(Canary): http://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs
(Nightly): http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/

 

[MilesAhead]

I just put on Chromium today. Not sure what the differences are. But other than having to uninstall, then install some extensions, it seems fine. Only just got done setting up all my Speed dials so I haven't surfed with it that much yet.

edit: btw, anyone know shortcuts to transfer stuff like search engine setup from other Chrome versions? It has import settings from just about every other browser but another chrome. I'm on Chromium portable so that's likely why it hasn't just picked everything up.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I just put on Chromium today. Not sure what the differences are. But other than having to uninstall, then install some extensions, it seems fine. Only just got done setting up all my Speed dials so I haven't surfed with it that much yet.

edit: btw, anyone know shortcuts to transfer stuff like search engine setup from other Chrome versions? It has import settings from just about every other browser but another chrome. I'm on Chromium portable so that's likely why it hasn't just picked everything up.

If you want your user customizations (bookmarks, extensions, etc) you can go and copy/paste the User Data folder from this location "C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome"

Remember, you 'may' need to reinstall your extensions (may not fully work).

 

[MilesAhead]

I just put on Chromium today. Not sure what the differences are. But other than having to uninstall, then install some extensions, it seems fine. Only just got done setting up all my Speed dials so I haven't surfed with it that much yet.

edit: btw, anyone know shortcuts to transfer stuff like search engine setup from other Chrome versions? It has import settings from just about every other browser but another chrome. I'm on Chromium portable so that's likely why it hasn't just picked everything up.

If you want your user customizations (bookmarks, extensions, etc) you can go and copy/paste the User Data folder from this location "C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome"

Remember, you 'may' need to reinstall your extensions (may not fully work).

Thanks for the reply. I put on this chrome 7 and I'm trying it now. Seems like it picked everything up from previous Chrome. If it pans out I'll just delete the Chromium portable folder. It didn't show any dead extensions. Plus it didn't kill my favicons either.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I just put on Chromium today. Not sure what the differences are. But other than having to uninstall, then install some extensions, it seems fine. Only just got done setting up all my Speed dials so I haven't surfed with it that much yet.

edit: btw, anyone know shortcuts to transfer stuff like search engine setup from other Chrome versions? It has import settings from just about every other browser but another chrome. I'm on Chromium portable so that's likely why it hasn't just picked everything up.

If you want your user customizations (bookmarks, extensions, etc) you can go and copy/paste the User Data folder from this location "C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome"

Remember, you 'may' need to reinstall your extensions (may not fully work).

Thanks for the reply. I put on this chrome 7 and I'm trying it now. Seems like it picked everything up from previous Chrome. If it pans out I'll just delete the Chromium portable folder. It didn't show any dead extensions. Plus it didn't kill my favicons either.

Glad to hear that. Sometimes it will kill extensions but it could be 'log-in' based ones like GMail ones. Let me know if you have anymore questions regarding Google Chrome/Chromium.

 

[MilesAhead]

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Glad to hear that. Sometimes it will kill extensions but it could be 'log-in' based ones like GMail ones. Let me know if you have anymore questions regarding Google Chrome/Chromium.

Thanks. Funny how it goes. I hated the idea of Speed-dial when it came out in FF. Had to find out how to kill it right away. Now using it in Chrome I got hooked. I finally put it on both my FF browsers. Better home page than about:blank

edit: seems snappy. Guess it should. Just running Speed-dial it has 8 processes going.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

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Glad to hear that. Sometimes it will kill extensions but it could be 'log-in' based ones like GMail ones. Let me know if you have anymore questions regarding Google Chrome/Chromium.

Thanks. Funny how it goes. I hated the idea of Speed-dial when it came out in FF. Had to find out how to kill it right away. Now using it in Chrome I got hooked. I finally put it on both my FF browsers. Better home page than about:blank

edit: seems snappy. Guess it should. Just running Speed-dial it has 8 processes going.

Try unpinning any 'Chromium' pins you made on your taskbar and start menu.

Then go to any shortcuts for Chromium you've made (desktop, start menu, etc) and add the following to the end of it (Put a space between .exe and the following):

--enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-accelerated-compositing --enable-video-layering --enable-webgl --enable-fastback --apps-panel --web-apps

 

[MilesAhead]

--enable-fastback seems beneficial. But the rest of it kills off my Speed dial on new tab. Anyway, I don't think my GPU is ballsy enough to benefit from acceleration. At least not in browsers. Maybe for software video players.

edit: thanks for the options. I'll try various combos. Right now these seem to peacefully coexist: -enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-fastback

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

--enable-fastback seems beneficial. But the rest of it kills off my Speed dial on new tab. Anyway, I don't think my GPU is ballsy enough to benefit from acceleration. At least not in browsers. Maybe for software video players.

edit: thanks for the options. I'll try various combos. Right now these seem to peacefully coexist: -enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-fastback

Kills it for me as well. Though I have noticed a major boost in things since enabling the flags. Hopefully the new tab page will be fixed in the next few builds

 

[Alphamale]

Trying it out now.

 

[Gornot]

Any useful feedback yet?

I found it annoying that the current GC stable version builds up on RAM usage when the browser is open for, like, an hour or more. In addition to that, when I click on a bookmark/type in an address and hit enter etc. and then immediately resize the browser window, the page which is loading does not adopt to the new window size, instead it just loads as if I haven't resized the window at all.

Extensive usage of Flash produced choppiness and stuttering; its not as bad as in Firefox, where it completely freezes for a fraction of a second, but it is more constant (the best example for this? Playing JamLegend)

 

[MilesAhead]

--enable-fastback seems beneficial. But the rest of it kills off my Speed dial on new tab. Anyway, I don't think my GPU is ballsy enough to benefit from acceleration. At least not in browsers. Maybe for software video players.

edit: thanks for the options. I'll try various combos. Right now these seem to peacefully coexist: -enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-fastback

Kills it for me as well. Though I have noticed a major boost in things since enabling the flags. Hopefully the new tab page will be fixed in the next few builds

btw- do you have a source for all the command line switches? Maybe with capsule descriptions?

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

--enable-fastback seems beneficial. But the rest of it kills off my Speed dial on new tab. Anyway, I don't think my GPU is ballsy enough to benefit from acceleration. At least not in browsers. Maybe for software video players.

edit: thanks for the options. I'll try various combos. Right now these seem to peacefully coexist: -enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-fastback

Kills it for me as well. Though I have noticed a major boost in things since enabling the flags. Hopefully the new tab page will be fixed in the next few builds

btw- do you have a source for all the command line switches? Maybe with capsule descriptions?

I wish, I generally find these things by going through Neowin and reading what people say regarding Chrome/Chromium.

 

[MilesAhead]

Yeah, there was a list on one of the Chrome forums, but it's ancient. Anyway, the combination I'm running seems pretty snappy.

 

[MilesAhead]

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--enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-accelerated-compositing --enable-video-layering --enable-webgl --enable-fastback --apps-panel --web-apps

One good turn deserves another. I don't know if you do AutoHotKey but I hate that middle mouse click on a link opens a new tab in the background. So I did this ahk. When you middle mouse click on a link in Chrome, it sends Control Shift Left Click to open it in a new tab in the foreground:

SendMode Input

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
MButton::
  Send, ^+{LButton}
Return

The line #IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0 restricts it so that the hotkey is only active when Chrome is the active window. Avoids interfering with other uses of Middle Click.

It will also work with Speed-dial. The dial you middle click will open in a new foreground tab instead of replacing the Speed dial page.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

...

--enable-gpu-plugin --enable-gpu-rendering --enable-accelerated-2d-canvas --enable-accelerated-compositing --enable-video-layering --enable-webgl --enable-fastback --apps-panel --web-apps

One good turn deserves another. I don't know if you do AutoHotKey but I hate that middle mouse click on a link opens a new tab in the background. So I did this ahk. When you middle mouse click on a link in Chrome, it sends Control Shift Left Click to open it in a new tab in the foreground:

SendMode Input

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0
MButton::
  Send, ^+{LButton}
Return

The line #IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0 restricts it so that the hotkey is only active when Chrome is the active window. Avoids interfering with other uses of Middle Click.

It will also work with Speed-dial. The dial you middle click will open in a new foreground tab instead of replacing the Speed dial page.

Thank you for that. That looks helpful.