In July, developers announced that they were going to release a stable version approximately every 6 weeks. All ten have passed, but today an update of the stable Chrome branch has nevertheless been released. As usual, the major version. As usual, this does not mean major changes that users are used to. However, there is still something to list.

AppleScript

The news will delight Mac users. Declared full support for AppleScript. What does it do? Yes, at least full support for OS X Services.



And, of course, the ability to script actions for fans. An example .

HTML5 Parsing

An HTML5 parsing algorithm has been implemented , designed to solve developers' headaches at least partially. Before creating the HTML5 parsing algorithm, each browser itself decided how to parse invalid HTML. Naturally, this led to inconsistencies and incorrect display. More precisely, it will be correct to say that the mapping is not the same, because the correct mapping of the wrong code did not exist ... before this algorithm. And now, browsers that implement parsing using this algorithm (for example, Firefox 4) will display the page in the same way, regardless of whether the layout is curved or not.

Another advantage of this algorithm is the ability to embed MathML and SVG directly in HTML.

Fileapi

Interfaces for working with files will allow web applications to do what you always dreamed about. For example, when the user just selected a picture to upload, pre-read it and show a small copy of the image. Instantly and before the download starts. Learn more about FileAPI. It is worth noting that FileAPI is still in Editor Draft state.

Directory upload

The name speaks for itself. It’s not fun for anyone to upload pictures to Flickr / Picasa / Yandex. Photos are selected one by one. I would dump it into a directory and download everything from there. Dreams? Now the reality.

Result:

Selects all files in the directory, and subdirectories.

Cookie exceptions

For starters, it was still possible to set exclusion sites in the settings that are not allowed to set any cookies. It is very useful to protect yourself from particularly annoying spy services.

Benchmarks & tests

html5test.com - 231/300
Acid3 is a half-forgotten test that Chrome7 fails with a 100/100 result in a display that does not match the UPD reference picture : It turned out that my error. Acid3 prevented the addon blocker from getting through. Without it, everything is much better .

Links

Google Chrome Blog
Offline Installer (Win, 22.4 Mb)