As you may already know, the Chrome development is done on three branches. First, the new features are added to the Unstable (dev) branch and after some tests are performed, they get moved to the Beta channel. And some features from the Beta channel get implemented in the Stable branch, depending on the received feedback.
For now, Chrome 45 (45.0.2454.26) is available only as Beta and brings the below changes, among others:
- The autofill credit card editor uses Calendar.getInstance()
- Use native theme’s throbber colors for tabstrip throbber (GTK theme
- Avoid destroying webview Surface too early
- net: remove uber.com from HSTS preloading by manual request
- Refresh mount state when suspend is done
- Avoid connecting to the renderer’s ImageDownloader Mojo service if the service registry doesn’t exist
- Handle a lack of sandbox services when moderate binding is on
- Cancel model selection change if it isn’t valid
- Keyboard-change notifications include a begin and an end frame, describing where the keyboard was and where it is going
- Add a hardware keyboard histogram that tracks the keyboard type
- Changing command line flag from disable appcontainer to enable appcontainer
- One-time migration of NPAPI Flash to PPAPI Flash
Installation instructions:
Google Chrome is available via the Google repositories for all the popular Linux systems, so installing and keeping Chrome up to date will be easy.
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Beta) on Ubuntu, Debian and derivative systems:
Instructions for bot 32 bith and 64 bit systems:
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list'
$ wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove google-chrome-beta
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Beta) on Fedora, CentOS and derivative systems:
Instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems:
Add the repository to your system:
$ sudo su
$ cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo
[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome - \$basearch
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/\$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
EOF
Update the local repository index and install the google-chrome-stable package:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install google-chrome-beta
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo yum remove google-chrome-beta
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Beta) on OpenSUSE and derivative systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-beta
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install google-chrome-beta
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo zypper remove google-chrome-beta
How to install the latest version of Chrome (Beta) on Mageia, OpenMandriva and derivative systems:
Instructions for 32 bit systems:
$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_i386 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/beta/i386
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-beta
Instructions for 64 bit systems:
$ sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$ sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_x86_64 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/beta/x86_64
$ sudo urpmi google-chrome-beta
Optional, to remove Chrome, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, do:
$ sudo urpme google-chrome-beta