Google Chrome 4.0.237.0 Beta

Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of 1 November 2009 (2009 -11-01), Chrome was the fourth most widely used browser, with 3.58% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.Development versions of Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X were released in June 2009.

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Google released the entire source code of Chrome, including its bespoke V8 JavaScript engine as an open source project entitled Chromium, in 2008.This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and potentially port the browser to the Linux and Mac OS X platforms. A Google spokesperson also expressed hope that other browsers would adopt V8 to help web applications.The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license,which allows portions to be incorporated into both open source and proprietary software programs.Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of different open-source licenses.Chromium implements the same feature set as Chrome, but has a slightly different logo.

Google Chrome 4.0.237.0 Beta fix's:

• [r30499] Use a better signature for the new page actions API (chrome.pageAction.* instead of chrome.pageActions.*). This is technically a breaking change, but hopefully not too many people had gotten around to using the new API yet. (Issue 25833)
• +[r29665] Remove toolstrips on linux. They were causing lots of crashes and are going away soon anyway. (Issue 25106)
• +[r29911] Add chrome.extension.sendRequest() -- a simpler way to do content script messaging. (Issue 23865)
• +[r30341] Add new event chrome.tabs.onStatusChange. This makes the common case of wanting to know when tabs load much easier. (Issue 21729)
• [r29556] Add badge text color API. Also change color APIs from ARGB to RGBA (breaking change, sorry!) (Issues: 24635, 24644, 25215)
• +[r29152, r29785] Browser actions (buttons, popups) are now implemented. (Issue: 23882, 23897)
• +[r29997] Add support for tab-specific state to browser actions. Also, fix the bug where only the first call to setIcon() works. (Issues: 24669,24472)
• +[r30346] Constrain browser action popups to a min/max size. Also fix some glitches in popup sizing. (Issue 25214)
• [r30326] Copy chrome.extension.getTabContentses() to chrome.extension.getExtensionTabs(). Nobody liked the old name. (Issue 21433)
• +[r30384] Use the puzzle piece as the default extension icon. (Issue 25906)
• +[r30481] Hide the theme install bubble a little earlier. It was overlapping with the install dialog on linux. (Issue 26130)
• [r29498] Correctly handle reloading in the task manager (Issue 18693)
• + [r29555] Fix bug where content scripts did not always apply to first page load (Issue 11547)
• + [r29714, r29922, r29935, r30219] Various cleanup for the extension management page (Issues 12119, 25509, 25471)
• +[r30091] Improve install UI on mac (Issue 19654)