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Chrome Browser Update Fixes Flash Bugs

By Scott Gilbertson November 4, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools

chrome logoGoogle has released the first upddate for its much-hyped Chrome web browser. The latest version fixes a slew of bugs and is said to include much better plug-in support. Among the major gripes with the initial release of Chrome were problems with Flash movies, PDF viewing and plugins that would send your processor spinning up to 100 percent.

The latest version of Chrome fixes the big issue with Flash video, a bug that would cause the video to stop playing if you moved the playhead slider too many times (six times to be exact).

Chrome also now has better support for its very cool PDF streaming feature. PDF Fast WebView as it’s known, allows Chrome to only stream the particular page or pages that you want, rather than forcing you to wait for the whole document to load top to bottom. Unfortunately there was bug in the earlier version which caused some problems with the streaming, but Google says that has been fixed.

Overall this release of Chrome is primarily a quick bug fix solution, there aren’t any new features, but if you’ve been using the Chrome beta it’s worth the upgrade — especially if any of these bugs have bitten you.

You can grab the latest version of Chrome for Windows from the Google download page. Still no word on when we will seen Mac or Linux versions of Chrome.

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