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Chrome 59 stable released

136 points by bd82 9y ago

aargh_aargh 9y ago
I was expecting the easy path to display certificate view (removed in 56) to be returned in 59 [1], but apparently it will be in 60 behind a flag [2]. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971 [2] https://textslashplain.com/2017/05/02/inspecting-certificates-in-chrome/ https://textslashplain.com/2017/05/02/inspecting-certificate...
- codnee 9y ago
  After 5+ years using Chrome, this single change made me move to Firefox.
  - SXX 9y ago
    Hit similar problem and after go through bunch of trouble when I worked to update decade old website with non-UTF8 encoding and it's end up that Chrome removed that trivial encoding selection feature from menu. So I switched back to Firefox after probably 7 years with Chrome / Chromium and absolutely happy with it. Also end-up that modern web pretty much usable with NoScript and ability to install some YouTube enhancement addons is nice.
    - y4mi 9y ago
      You should try umatrix sometimes. It's made by the same person that created ublock origin and has a wonderful script blocking UX
- tokenizerrr 9y ago
  I still don't get why they did this. It's just a huge step back in every single way I can think of.
  - aargh_aargh 9y ago
    For now, you can star the issue I linked to.
  - UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
    It is so needless too. Users already had to click "Secure," and then a blue link, all they did was change a useful blue link (to the certificate info) to a useless one (Learn More[0]). As a technical user, I was using certificate info multiple times a day, even on sites where I didn't want nor need the developer bar open. Now I keep on opening the Developer Bar to check the certificate and it shoots me straight into emulation mode, disrupting my entire workflow. They should just re-add it at the bottom by "Site Settings." [0] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617
  - tmd83 9y ago
    That's what I was wondering. Whose brilliant idea was this and what was the rationale, does anyone know? There are quite a few decisions/bugs/lack-of-feature I see in google product that makes me wonder to whom such things make sense or doesn't matter.
- j_s 9y ago
  You can view the certs on the network tab of the developer tools without flipping any switches, right? I too wish this was part of the main address bar SSL status UI but was slightly relieved to find that it hadn't completely disappeared but rather been buried.
  - iza 9y ago
    It's in the "Security" tab of the developer tools actually.
- frik 9y ago
  Wow. I thought it's a bug in my copy. I tried furiously clicking around and the popup had no cert-info. That's really bad! Bring the cert info feature back! Why should I trust HTTPS if one cannot even read basic cert info to begin with!? Even IE11 has it, as does FF.
taf2 9y ago
Headless chrome is very exciting
madjam002 9y ago
Has there been any research on whether Material Design has superior UX for desktop use? I've just tried the new settings screen on Chrome 59, and personally I find it far, far worse than what it was previously. I hate this trend of hiding essential top-level navigation behind a hamburger menu, especially on desktop.
- agumonkey 9y ago
  It seems like an excellent idea that is only an idea. I was pro at first but most of the time I dread a little. Only advantage is that it suits mobile a little bit, and now google has mostly one UX.
- neogodless 9y ago
  I'm not sure it's "hidden" in this case. In fact, the hamburger seems to just open "shortcuts." The fact that I can click Advanced and see where Passwords are is a big improvement, in my opinion. One of the main reasons I go into settings is to manage my passwords. I always had a hard time visually scanning for them with the old layout. So there's one tiny drop of anecdotal evidence that it's a little better.
- diminish 9y ago
  Actually on material design, I liked the look though it smells a bit classic as of now. But what I dislike the most is that I have to navigate and click more than necessary for simple tasks.
- caub 9y ago
  And I think the exact opposite I don't have a big screen (15"4) I want the browser header to be as thin as possible
- tyingq 9y ago
  I struggle with what things are buttons in material design. Everything looks flat, so clickable things look like labels to me. Especially buttons that aren't rectangles.
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wooptoo 9y ago
This version of Chrome has support for running headless (without the need for a graphical environment at all). Awesome for automation and testing.
foob 9y ago
As others have mentioned, the most exciting thing about Chrome 59 is that it is the first release with headless support. I wrote a guide a while back on running headless Chrome with Selenium that someone might find interesting if they're interested in trying out Chrome in headless mode [1]. It's quite a bit easier now that the stable channel is on version 59 and I just updated the guide to specify which steps are no longer necessary. [1] - https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-chrome/ https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-chrom...
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
  Thanks, I enjoyed reading it (in spite of the pop up!). I think sooner or later someone will use this method to crate a (local, self-hosted) tool to manage FB posts without actually using FB. Finally!
  - foob 9y ago
    Thanks for reading it and I'm glad that you liked it! Sorry about the pop up... I'm not a huge fan of them as a user myself, but we only show it on the first post that you read and it drives a lot of sign ups for our monthly article newsletter. We try our best to only put out high quality articles and to keep the intrusiveness of marketing widgets to a minimum.
    - andrei_says_ 9y ago
      Mmaybe consider collecting sign ups in a different way? Now that you know modals are amongst the most hated strategies. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-techniques/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-tech...
- stephen123 9y ago
  Hey don't they put that in the release notes. Ps, great post!
  - joshschreuder 9y ago
mad182 9y ago
Nice! APNG is finally supported.
- vanderZwan 9y ago
  Thanks for the heads-up, now I can remove that extension! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegkhpodgoaeamnpckdbblp?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegk...
borplk 9y ago
I have been using the headless mode for a while (on unstable). It's been awesome!
geekamongus 9y ago
Can someone explain or point me to a good source of info on why headless Chrome is a big deal? (Not being snarky; I really want to know).
- shusson 9y ago
  pretty much replaces http://phantomjs.org/ http://phantomjs.org/
- hpaavola 9y ago
  Now when Chrome has headless support and the same feature for Firefox is coming later this year it becomes way easier to run tests using real browsers in CI environments.
- bd82 9y ago
  Makes it much easier to use in continuous integration scenarios. For example running tests in a browser in your pull request voter.
- j_s 9y ago
  Advanced web scraping simplified - the ongoing war between people who want content vs. those who want to make sure only the "right" people can get their content just shifted dramatically!
  - ospider 9y ago
    Is there a good documentation on chrome's remote debugging protocol? I'm trying to implement a python wrapper[1] around the protocol, but I can't find some good docs. [1] https://github.com/yifeikong/chrome_remote https://github.com/yifeikong/chrome_remote
    - j_s 9y ago
      Sorry I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that you can google as well as me (if not better) on this subject, but here goes: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/awesome-chrome-devtools#chrome-devtools-protocol https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/awesome-chrome-devtools#ch... has a buch of pointers and mentions the Python-based https://github.com/iiSeymour/chromote https://github.com/iiSeymour/chromote (235 stars) - if you've got something going, try to add your project to the list! Also found https://github.com/minektur/chrome_remote_shell https://github.com/minektur/chrome_remote_shell (51 stars) and https://github.com/mirumee/chromedebug https://github.com/mirumee/chromedebug (26 stars)
wozniacki 9y ago
Has reverse image search on right click ( Search Google image / Search Google for this image [1] ) been removed off late, from Chrome? Now all I have on right click is "Copy image address". That's a fairly heavily used feature. Surely, they couldn't have done away with it. Didn't find any posts of substance in the product forums either.[2] Some have suggested that removing Google as the default search engine rids the right click of that feature. However my default search engine has never been not Google. [1] https://www.andrewhawkes.co.uk/images/articles/search-google-for-image-right-click.jpg https://www.andrewhawkes.co.uk/images/articles/search-google... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYcECahKm44/VLAMW-n7hQI/AAAAAAAAAcI/ifBgShdSkgo/s1600/image-search.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYcECahKm44/VLAMW-n7hQI/AAAAAAAAAc... https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-USmwx_yMwIU/Uheyv5gRzBI/AAAAAAABL7w/eXC-gSm0JT8/s640/chrome-search-by-image.png https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-USmwx_yMwIU/Uheyv5gRzBI/AAAAAAABL... [2] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/Qa_EOcArKvc;context-place=forum/websearch https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/Qa_...
- therealmarv 9y ago
  no
- mcjiggerlog 9y ago
  Still there for me.
- sturmen 9y ago
  "Search Google for Image" is still there for me, even on the latest Chrome Beta channel build. macOS Sierra Version 59.0.3071.86 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
  - wozniacki 9y ago
    Thanks to all who replied! I found the solution to this bug in a post on the Google Chrome Help Forum from way back; 11/28/10 to be precise. Solution for anyone else who happened on this bug: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/sq-RT8-eIm8/ZMLbaXAI3KsJ https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/sq-RT8-eIm8/ZM...
dsincl12 9y ago
When will they fix https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423609? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423609...! It's really annoying to find this one when you're getting companies to switch to Chrome from IE and end up with this in your lap instead :(
Vinnl 9y ago
For those interested: headless is coming to Firefox as well. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004
- vocatus_gate 9y ago
  Forgive the ignorance; what is headless?
  - satysin 9y ago
    A browser instance without a graphical interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_browser
    - deleted 9y ago
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    - vocatus_gate 9y ago
      What's the benefit of this? My uneducated guess would be faster automated testing?
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gtirloni 9y ago
Anyone seeing a failure in https://websocketstest.com https://websocketstest.com (Chrome 59.0.3071.86) ? https://websocketstest.com/result/7629067 https://websocketstest.com/result/7629067 It works fine on Firefox 53.0.3 and 55.0a1 (Nightly). Console says: scriptaculous.js:31 A Parser-blocking, cross site (i.e. different eTLD+1) script, https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/scriptaculous/1.8.3/builder.js https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/scriptaculous/1.8.3/bu..., is invoked via document.write. The network request for this script MAY be blocked by the browser in this or a future page load due to poor network connectivity. If blocked in this page load, it will be confirmed in a subsequent console message.See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5718547946799104 https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5718547946799104 for more details. WebSocket connection to 'wss://wss.websocketstest.com/service' failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE EDIT: Disabling "disallow-doc-written-script-loads" has not effect.
nickster 9y ago
I have been using request blocking in developer tools for the last month. It's really made some aspects of development easier for me. I hope Firefox follows suit and adds it.
bsandert 9y ago
One I've been looking forward to for a while: native notifications on OSX!
solidr53 9y ago
The real update is in the DevTools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjlwAvV8Jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjlwAvV8Jg
- reustle 9y ago
  Is there a particular timestamp I should jump to?
  - joshschreuder 9y ago
    Check out the blog if you prefer to read about it https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-release-notes https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-r...
fosco 9y ago
I thought they were dropping some support of SSL certificates in regards to symantec [0] starting in 59 but I see no mention in this post (unless I missed it). does anyone have further information? I am not familiar with blink process however allowing insecure creation of ssl certificates seems like the wrong way forward. [0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/eUAKwjihhBs/rpxMXjZHCQAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...
- dtemp 9y ago
  I am also interested in this. This whole process has been a shitshow. I'd just like a decision to be made and a little warning so that I have time to replace my RapidSSL certs (they are signed by GeoTrust which is owned by Symantec).
- asclepi 9y ago
  Google and Symantec settled on this. Symantec will create new certificate roots which will be cross-signed by both their existing roots and another certificate authority. This allows the trust in the existing roots to be removed in the long term and it has significantly less impact for current Symantec customers than the original proposal. A good summary of the latest developments can be found on https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/google-and-symantec/ https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/google-and-symantec/
JohnTHaller 9y ago
The portable version was also posted yesterday: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portabl... It's handy for trying it out without installing the full app and update service on Windows. Or for running Stable, Dev, Beta on the same machine with separate profiles without needing command line switches.
arnon 9y ago
This finally kills CentOS 6 support...
clumsysmurf 9y ago
Does Chrome 59 come with Ignition / Turbofan for V8 enabled ? If i read this correctly, it does ... https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-and-turbofan.html https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-an...
amelius 9y ago
What is the difference between Chrome and Chromium these days?
- jensvdh 9y ago
  IIRC Chromium is Chrome without the Google stuff.
  - lsagar 9y ago
    Also, chrome has inbuilt flash support maintained by Google.
    - jensvdh 9y ago
      And Chromium apparently does not ship with H264, interesting!
jordache 9y ago
yea headless for CI!
littlestymaar 9y ago
With the new optimizing compiler (Turbofan) landing, JavaScript `Exception` are now usable without significant performance penalty: great news ! A bit of context: v8 used to have troubles optimizing code which contained `try/catch` sections, which led to massive performance issues on hot parts of the code in Chrome and deterred a lot of people from using Exceptions in JavaScript (including node). Glad to see this bug finally fixed ! More infos on the new v8 stack here: https://v8project.blogspot.fr/2017/05/launching-ignition-and-turbofan.html https://v8project.blogspot.fr/2017/05/launching-ignition-and...
samat 9y ago
I'd like to make 'screenshots' for different pages on my server. Is there a way to do this with headless chrome without restarting chrome each time? Some sort of easy to use API for this?
- samat 9y ago
  Sorry for this, looks like selenium works just fine.
- selckin 9y ago
  https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf
kondbg 9y ago
Running Linux and i3wm. After updating to 59, Chrome didn't seem to automatically detect my DPI settings, so I had to manually specify the scale with --force-device-scale-factor Previously did not have to do this.

136 points by bd82 9y ago

I was expecting the easy path to display certificate view (removed in 56) to be returned in 59 [1], but apparently it will be in 60 behind a flag [2]. [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971 [2] https://textslashplain.com/2017/05/02/inspecting-certificates-in-chrome/ https://textslashplain.com/2017/05/02/inspecting-certificate...

codnee 9y ago
After 5+ years using Chrome, this single change made me move to Firefox.
- SXX 9y ago
  Hit similar problem and after go through bunch of trouble when I worked to update decade old website with non-UTF8 encoding and it's end up that Chrome removed that trivial encoding selection feature from menu. So I switched back to Firefox after probably 7 years with Chrome / Chromium and absolutely happy with it. Also end-up that modern web pretty much usable with NoScript and ability to install some YouTube enhancement addons is nice.
  - y4mi 9y ago
    You should try umatrix sometimes. It's made by the same person that created ublock origin and has a wonderful script blocking UX
tokenizerrr 9y ago
I still don't get why they did this. It's just a huge step back in every single way I can think of.
- aargh_aargh 9y ago
  For now, you can star the issue I linked to.
- UnoriginalGuy 9y ago
  It is so needless too. Users already had to click "Secure," and then a blue link, all they did was change a useful blue link (to the certificate info) to a useless one (Learn More[0]). As a technical user, I was using certificate info multiple times a day, even on sites where I didn't want nor need the developer bar open. Now I keep on opening the Developer Bar to check the certificate and it shoots me straight into emulation mode, disrupting my entire workflow. They should just re-add it at the bottom by "Site Settings." [0] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617 https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95617
- tmd83 9y ago
  That's what I was wondering. Whose brilliant idea was this and what was the rationale, does anyone know? There are quite a few decisions/bugs/lack-of-feature I see in google product that makes me wonder to whom such things make sense or doesn't matter.
j_s 9y ago
You can view the certs on the network tab of the developer tools without flipping any switches, right? I too wish this was part of the main address bar SSL status UI but was slightly relieved to find that it hadn't completely disappeared but rather been buried.
- iza 9y ago
  It's in the "Security" tab of the developer tools actually.
frik 9y ago
Wow. I thought it's a bug in my copy. I tried furiously clicking around and the popup had no cert-info. That's really bad! Bring the cert info feature back! Why should I trust HTTPS if one cannot even read basic cert info to begin with!? Even IE11 has it, as does FF.

taf2 9y ago

Headless chrome is very exciting

madjam002 9y ago

Has there been any research on whether Material Design has superior UX for desktop use? I've just tried the new settings screen on Chrome 59, and personally I find it far, far worse than what it was previously. I hate this trend of hiding essential top-level navigation behind a hamburger menu, especially on desktop.

agumonkey 9y ago
It seems like an excellent idea that is only an idea. I was pro at first but most of the time I dread a little. Only advantage is that it suits mobile a little bit, and now google has mostly one UX.
neogodless 9y ago
I'm not sure it's "hidden" in this case. In fact, the hamburger seems to just open "shortcuts." The fact that I can click Advanced and see where Passwords are is a big improvement, in my opinion. One of the main reasons I go into settings is to manage my passwords. I always had a hard time visually scanning for them with the old layout. So there's one tiny drop of anecdotal evidence that it's a little better.
diminish 9y ago
Actually on material design, I liked the look though it smells a bit classic as of now. But what I dislike the most is that I have to navigate and click more than necessary for simple tasks.
caub 9y ago
And I think the exact opposite I don't have a big screen (15"4) I want the browser header to be as thin as possible
tyingq 9y ago
I struggle with what things are buttons in material design. Everything looks flat, so clickable things look like labels to me. Especially buttons that aren't rectangles.
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wooptoo 9y ago

This version of Chrome has support for running headless (without the need for a graphical environment at all). Awesome for automation and testing.

foob 9y ago

As others have mentioned, the most exciting thing about Chrome 59 is that it is the first release with headless support. I wrote a guide a while back on running headless Chrome with Selenium that someone might find interesting if they're interested in trying out Chrome in headless mode [1]. It's quite a bit easier now that the stable channel is on version 59 and I just updated the guide to specify which steps are no longer necessary. [1] - https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-chrome/ https://intoli.com/blog/running-selenium-with-headless-chrom...

dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed reading it (in spite of the pop up!). I think sooner or later someone will use this method to crate a (local, self-hosted) tool to manage FB posts without actually using FB. Finally!
- foob 9y ago
  Thanks for reading it and I'm glad that you liked it! Sorry about the pop up... I'm not a huge fan of them as a user myself, but we only show it on the first post that you read and it drives a lot of sign ups for our monthly article newsletter. We try our best to only put out high quality articles and to keep the intrusiveness of marketing widgets to a minimum.
  - andrei_says_ 9y ago
    Mmaybe consider collecting sign ups in a different way? Now that you know modals are amongst the most hated strategies. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-techniques/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/most-hated-advertising-tech...
stephen123 9y ago
Hey don't they put that in the release notes. Ps, great post!
- joshschreuder 9y ago

mad182 9y ago

Nice! APNG is finally supported.

vanderZwan 9y ago
Thanks for the heads-up, now I can remove that extension! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegkhpodgoaeamnpckdbblp?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/apng/ehkepjiconegk...

borplk 9y ago

I have been using the headless mode for a while (on unstable). It's been awesome!

geekamongus 9y ago

Can someone explain or point me to a good source of info on why headless Chrome is a big deal? (Not being snarky; I really want to know).

shusson 9y ago
pretty much replaces http://phantomjs.org/ http://phantomjs.org/
hpaavola 9y ago
Now when Chrome has headless support and the same feature for Firefox is coming later this year it becomes way easier to run tests using real browsers in CI environments.
bd82 9y ago
Makes it much easier to use in continuous integration scenarios. For example running tests in a browser in your pull request voter.
j_s 9y ago
Advanced web scraping simplified - the ongoing war between people who want content vs. those who want to make sure only the "right" people can get their content just shifted dramatically!
- ospider 9y ago
  Is there a good documentation on chrome's remote debugging protocol? I'm trying to implement a python wrapper[1] around the protocol, but I can't find some good docs. [1] https://github.com/yifeikong/chrome_remote https://github.com/yifeikong/chrome_remote
  - j_s 9y ago
    Sorry I'm not sure. What I am sure of is that you can google as well as me (if not better) on this subject, but here goes: https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/awesome-chrome-devtools#chrome-devtools-protocol https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/awesome-chrome-devtools#ch... has a buch of pointers and mentions the Python-based https://github.com/iiSeymour/chromote https://github.com/iiSeymour/chromote (235 stars) - if you've got something going, try to add your project to the list! Also found https://github.com/minektur/chrome_remote_shell https://github.com/minektur/chrome_remote_shell (51 stars) and https://github.com/mirumee/chromedebug https://github.com/mirumee/chromedebug (26 stars)

wozniacki 9y ago

Has reverse image search on right click ( Search Google image / Search Google for this image [1] ) been removed off late, from Chrome? Now all I have on right click is "Copy image address". That's a fairly heavily used feature. Surely, they couldn't have done away with it. Didn't find any posts of substance in the product forums either.[2] Some have suggested that removing Google as the default search engine rids the right click of that feature. However my default search engine has never been not Google. [1] https://www.andrewhawkes.co.uk/images/articles/search-google-for-image-right-click.jpg https://www.andrewhawkes.co.uk/images/articles/search-google... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYcECahKm44/VLAMW-n7hQI/AAAAAAAAAcI/ifBgShdSkgo/s1600/image-search.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pYcECahKm44/VLAMW-n7hQI/AAAAAAAAAc... https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-USmwx_yMwIU/Uheyv5gRzBI/AAAAAAABL7w/eXC-gSm0JT8/s640/chrome-search-by-image.png https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-USmwx_yMwIU/Uheyv5gRzBI/AAAAAAABL... [2] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/Qa_EOcArKvc;context-place=forum/websearch https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/Qa_...

therealmarv 9y ago
no
mcjiggerlog 9y ago
Still there for me.
sturmen 9y ago
"Search Google for Image" is still there for me, even on the latest Chrome Beta channel build. macOS Sierra Version 59.0.3071.86 (Official Build) beta (64-bit)
- wozniacki 9y ago
  Thanks to all who replied! I found the solution to this bug in a post on the Google Chrome Help Forum from way back; 11/28/10 to be precise. Solution for anyone else who happened on this bug: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/sq-RT8-eIm8/ZMLbaXAI3KsJ https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/sq-RT8-eIm8/ZM...

dsincl12 9y ago

When will they fix https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423609? https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423609...! It's really annoying to find this one when you're getting companies to switch to Chrome from IE and end up with this in your lap instead :(

Vinnl 9y ago

For those interested: headless is coming to Firefox as well. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338004

vocatus_gate 9y ago
Forgive the ignorance; what is headless?
- satysin 9y ago
  A browser instance without a graphical interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_browser
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - vocatus_gate 9y ago
    What's the benefit of this? My uneducated guess would be faster automated testing?

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gtirloni 9y ago

Anyone seeing a failure in https://websocketstest.com https://websocketstest.com (Chrome 59.0.3071.86) ? https://websocketstest.com/result/7629067 https://websocketstest.com/result/7629067 It works fine on Firefox 53.0.3 and 55.0a1 (Nightly). Console says: scriptaculous.js:31 A Parser-blocking, cross site (i.e. different eTLD+1) script, https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/scriptaculous/1.8.3/builder.js https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/scriptaculous/1.8.3/bu..., is invoked via document.write. The network request for this script MAY be blocked by the browser in this or a future page load due to poor network connectivity. If blocked in this page load, it will be confirmed in a subsequent console message.See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5718547946799104 https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5718547946799104 for more details. WebSocket connection to 'wss://wss.websocketstest.com/service' failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE EDIT: Disabling "disallow-doc-written-script-loads" has not effect.

nickster 9y ago

I have been using request blocking in developer tools for the last month. It's really made some aspects of development easier for me. I hope Firefox follows suit and adds it.

bsandert 9y ago

One I've been looking forward to for a while: native notifications on OSX!

solidr53 9y ago

The real update is in the DevTools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjlwAvV8Jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjjlwAvV8Jg

reustle 9y ago
Is there a particular timestamp I should jump to?
- joshschreuder 9y ago
  Check out the blog if you prefer to read about it https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-release-notes https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/devtools-r...

fosco 9y ago

I thought they were dropping some support of SSL certificates in regards to symantec [0] starting in 59 but I see no mention in this post (unless I missed it). does anyone have further information? I am not familiar with blink process however allowing insecure creation of ssl certificates seems like the wrong way forward. [0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-dev/eUAKwjihhBs/rpxMXjZHCQAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...

dtemp 9y ago
I am also interested in this. This whole process has been a shitshow. I'd just like a decision to be made and a little warning so that I have time to replace my RapidSSL certs (they are signed by GeoTrust which is owned by Symantec).
asclepi 9y ago
Google and Symantec settled on this. Symantec will create new certificate roots which will be cross-signed by both their existing roots and another certificate authority. This allows the trust in the existing roots to be removed in the long term and it has significantly less impact for current Symantec customers than the original proposal. A good summary of the latest developments can be found on https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/google-and-symantec/ https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/google-and-symantec/

JohnTHaller 9y ago

The portable version was also posted yesterday: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portabl... It's handy for trying it out without installing the full app and update service on Windows. Or for running Stable, Dev, Beta on the same machine with separate profiles without needing command line switches.

arnon 9y ago

This finally kills CentOS 6 support...

clumsysmurf 9y ago

Does Chrome 59 come with Ignition / Turbofan for V8 enabled ? If i read this correctly, it does ... https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-and-turbofan.html https://v8project.blogspot.com/2017/05/launching-ignition-an...

amelius 9y ago

What is the difference between Chrome and Chromium these days?

jensvdh 9y ago
IIRC Chromium is Chrome without the Google stuff.
- lsagar 9y ago
  Also, chrome has inbuilt flash support maintained by Google.
  - jensvdh 9y ago
    And Chromium apparently does not ship with H264, interesting!

jordache 9y ago

yea headless for CI!

littlestymaar 9y ago

With the new optimizing compiler (Turbofan) landing, JavaScript `Exception` are now usable without significant performance penalty: great news ! A bit of context: v8 used to have troubles optimizing code which contained `try/catch` sections, which led to massive performance issues on hot parts of the code in Chrome and deterred a lot of people from using Exceptions in JavaScript (including node). Glad to see this bug finally fixed ! More infos on the new v8 stack here: https://v8project.blogspot.fr/2017/05/launching-ignition-and-turbofan.html https://v8project.blogspot.fr/2017/05/launching-ignition-and...

samat 9y ago

I'd like to make 'screenshots' for different pages on my server. Is there a way to do this with headless chrome without restarting chrome each time? Some sort of easy to use API for this?

samat 9y ago
Sorry for this, looks like selenium works just fine.
selckin 9y ago
https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf

kondbg 9y ago

Running Linux and i3wm. After updating to 59, Chrome didn't seem to automatically detect my DPI settings, so I had to manually specify the scale with --force-device-scale-factor Previously did not have to do this.