Chrome Beta Receives First Update – Fixes and Introduces a Number of Bugs

After hitting the Google Play store last week with a laundry list of bugs, we were eagerly anticipating the first update to Chrome Beta on Android. That update is now live and certainly fixes a bunch of bugs. As with any beta, though, it introduces another list of issues.

Jump through to see the entire list of fixes and new issues. Hit up the direct play link to install the beta. 

This update contains a number of fixes, including:

• 164632 – Edit Bookmark is broken
• 167351 – Youtube video controls are lost after returning from fullscreen
• 167016 – Some Samsung Galaxy S2 freezes
• 168062 – Double tapping on non-zoomable sites scrolls the page to the top briefly before returning to original position
• 167379 – Sometimes tabswitcher is frozen
• 166998 – Tab content stretched out while returning to it through side swipe gesture
• 168632 – Crash – Stack Signature: TabAndroidImpl::FromWebContents
• 168388 – Sync signed in info text’s font size is too small
• 168430 – Bookmark star icon doesn’t turn grey/white immediately after bookmarking URL /deleting URL from bookmarks

Known Issues:

• Performance is sluggish, noticeably on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus S
• Frequent freeze on devices with specific versions of Qualcomm GPU driver
• Text autosizing may break formatting on some sites
• Video continues playing after exiting fullscreen on android phones
• [HTC Droid DNA] Getting crash on tabswitcher mode
• 163439 – yahoo.com page links are not working
• 166233 – Cannot submit comments on facebook posts or pictures
• 165244 – Text handler jumps or disappears when moving
• 162486 – iframe scrolling broken
• 158633: Tap disambiguation overaggressive
• 169910 – Flickering while opening new tab

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Via:  Chrome Releases