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While companies with a consistent tradition in browser development such as Microsoft and Mozilla are taking years to advance Internet Explorer and respectively Firefox from one version to another, Google is going through Chrome releases like its has been producing it since the dawn of the Internet. Just a week after it left version 1.0 behind and launched v2.0 for the general public, the Mountain View-based search giant has kicked Chrome up a notch and all the way to version 3.0. As of May 27, Google 3.0 Build 3.0.182.2 is up for grabs via the Developer channel.
“Google Chrome 3.0.182.2 has been released to the Dev channel. Highlights for this release: Google Chrome now supports the video tag. Auto-spell-correct flag will fix common typos like "teh" for "the" in the blink of an eye. Various bits of UI clean-up (toolbar and dangerous download bar paint issues). Multiple crash fixes,” informed Anthony Laforge, technical program manager.

Laforge also pointed out that there was an issue with this release, but that the next development milestone provided via the Dev channel would resolve it. “The font in the browser's user interface is very small in most non-English languages. This will be fixed in the next Dev channel update.” Along with the delivery of Chrome 3.0.182.2, Google has also taken to the next level the browser's rendering engine and the JavaScrip engine. In this sense, the Mountain View company's latest iteration of its open-source browser took WebKit to version 531.0, V8 to 1.2.5.1 and Gears to 0.5.21.0.

At the end of the past week, Google started serving Chrome 2.0 Build 2.0.172.28 to all users downloading the browser through the Stable channel, replacing the last build of Chrome 1.0 available. It took the search giant just eight months to go from Chrome version 1.0 to Chrome version 3.0. This while Mozilla will release Firefox 3.5 at least a year after Firefox 3.0, and with Microsoft having offered Internet Explorer 8 in March 2009, after launching IE7 at the end of 2006.

Release Notes ver 3.0 (Build 3.0.182.2)
"Originally posted May 27, 2009 2:29 PM by Jon Conradt [ updated May 27, 2009 8:39 PM by Mark Larson ]"

• [r16414] Fixed video not loading properly for a WMP stream. (Issue: 8973)
• [r16428] Correctly draw toolbar bottom border when window is maximized. (Issue: 11696)
• [r16446] Fixed the "Dangerous download" bar, and certain other UI elements, drawing improperly on the screen. (Issue: 12010)
• [r16467] Implemented new tab and window API events for extensions. (Issue: 11200)
• [r16485] Bookmarks Extension API had issues processing some bookmark titles. (Issue: 11431)
• [r16632] Pressing F1 will now take the user to the correct language help page. (Issue: 5909)
• [r16672] Changed the UI for HTTP/FTP auth challenges to include the server's port. Instead of "www.foo.com" it will now say "www.foo.com:80" to be explicitly clear what the target server is. (Issue: 12073)
• [r16683] For find-in page, if a search term appears underneath the find box, the find box will move out of the way to uncover it so the value is not hidden. (Issue: 12463)
• [r16695] Fixed Google Chrome being "unable to connect to localhost" when there was no internet connection. (Issue: 5234)
• [r16737] Page elements no longer remain highlighted after being inspected. (Issue: 11766)
• [r16749] "Fonts and Languages" no longer improperly goes behind the browser when closing the "Languages" dialog. (Issue: 10923)
• [r16757] Fix sluggish omnibox response when there are hundreds or thousands of bookmarks. (Issue: 6646)
• [r16760] Middle clicking on a bookmark from the bookmark manager now opens that bookmark in a new foreground tab. (Issue: 7788)
• [r16786] Pressing F3 in a new tab will now search for the previously searched for term from any other tab. (Issue: 12468)
• [r16864] Ensure that user scripts get properly unloaded when they are deleted from the user scripts directory, without requiring a browser restart. (Issue: 12170)
• [r16878] Set focus correctly when dismissing plugin context menus by left-clicking on the containing webpage. (Issue: 8988)