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# All Platforms

* Fixed – Issue 27897: [Extension] Some extensions crash after installing 4.0.249.0
* Fixed – Issue 27900: [Extension] Reload on crash infobar causes more crashes

# Windows

* Fixed top windows crasher. (Issues: 27856, 28096)
* Fixed a crashing race condition in bookmark synchronization. (Issue: 23251)
* Make the character encoding indicator visible again on Windows. (Issue: 26438)

# Extensions

* Tab traversal in popups fixed on Windows, also a few other focus-related bugs. (Issues: 22654, 28086, 28087)

Google Chrome BETA 4.0.249.4

ATI Tray Tools is a free utility that runs in the system tray and provides easy right-click access to all of your ATI video card’s crucial settings. You can change anisotropic filtering + antialiasing levels in Direct3D and OpenGL, adjust image quality, turn on/off special driver features, or simply just fool around with clock settings (core and memory speeds). It uses minimal system resources and isn’t intrusive.

ATI Tray Tools 1.6.9.1435

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology.

During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. FPU, CPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance for comparing it to previous states or other PCs.

Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

Full Change log

EVEREST Ultimate Edition BETA 5.30.1946

What’s New in Firefox 3.6 Beta (revision 3)
Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.

(NEW) Changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
(NEW) The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
More than 80 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
This beta is available in more than 60 languages – get your local version.
Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
Support for the WOFF font format.
Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 3

Flash Player 10.1 is the first consistent browser runtime release of the Open Screen Project. The new version promises to enable uncompressed web browsing of application and HD videos across desktops and devices like smartphones and tablets. Adobe reports that the new player version delivers media using HTTP streaming with content protection powered by Adobe Flash Access 2.0.

The key upgrade for Flash 10.1 is that the player can now use hardware decoding of H.264 video on Windows PCs, notebooks, and mobile devices. The new version of Flash Player also supports Mac and Linux. Adobe has also issued a new update for AIR to AIR 2 that allows developers to create feature rich applications in the desktop context.

Read the whole article over at Daily Tech

Microsoft has made the latest beta of Office 2010 available to MSDN and TechNet customers.

The release follows news that Office 2010 beta builds have begun leaking from the software giant.

It’s widely expected that a public beta build of Office 2010 will be available this week. Microsoft has kept quiet on the reports but has hinted on the official Office twitter account “MS Office team has some exiting news to tell at PDC. This is a must attend event. Stay tuned!” and a follow up post hints at possible social networking features in Outlook, “would you like your inbox to talk to your social networks? Useful integration or distraction?”. Stay tuned for all the PDC 2009 information as Neowin will be live in Los Angeles this week.

This I noticed over at NeoWin
Am downloading it now to give it a spin.

.net 4 beta 2 is also available.

Dev Channel Update
Monday, November 16, 2009 | 17:43
Labels: Dev updates

The Dev channel has been updated to 4.0.249.0 for all platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux).

All Platforms
[r31779] Introduced Timeline and Storage panels in Chrome’s Developer Tools
Windows
Covered by All Platforms and Extensions.
Mac
[r31785] Support undo in the omnibox (Issue: 18084).
Linux
[r31793] Visual fixes to the popup blocker in chrome theme mode (Issue: 26155).
[r31984] Status bubble should move out of the way of the mouse (Issue: 18311)
Extensions
[r32008] Mostly fixes black flashing that happens during popup resize. (Issue: 25459)
[r31996] Re-enable database storage for extensions. (Issue: 27216)
[r31844] Fix a crash in ExtensionMessageService when a source renderer closed. (Issue: 27554)
[r31840] Fix a crash in BrowserActionButton::OnImageLoaded. (Issue: 27167)
[r31826] Fix a crash in ExtensionsService::ReloadExtension (Issue: 27199)

Known Issues:
Issue 27897: [Extension] Some extensions crash after installing 4.0.249.0
Issue 27900: [Extension] Reload on crash infobar causes more crashes
Issue 27902: [Extension] Extension link on new tab page doesn’t work properly

Google Chrome BETA 4.0.249.0

A decade ago many thought that progress of 3D accelerated graphics in games and applications has came to its peak, simply because CPUs of that time did not have enough power for real-time photorealistic rendering. Around that same period first consumer 3D graphics cards were making huge steps toward photorealistic rendering. After that came surround sound that further contributed to whole 3D virtual experience. Character animation in games, which was inseparable element of every 3D game, at the beginning was pre-programmed, so for example, characters in Quake and Unreal Tournament always jumped in a same way despite the fact that they were hit by a bullet or a rocket missile while in mid air. Similar situation was with racing simulations that looked close to real world examples, but could not offer similar real-world experience. So, something had to be changed.

Alas I’m still in the drk ages and am PhysX-less, but this should be good for diehard gamers.

The whole article can be found over at InsideHW

Ran accross the new Bing Search Engine homepage and rather liked the piccy.
Good to see an enticing Search Engine that you want to visit.

So here are the more popular search engines and their rather bland looks and Yahoo’s too many distractions.

Very bland it does one thing search, no real reason I would come here, also why I don’t.

This used to be my Search Engine of choice, it was the fastest by far of all the engines back in it’s day, till Google came along and then it was never used by me again.
Not much has changed over the years and it looks about the same it did 10 years ago.

Yahoo, as Google a huge beast of a search engine, it’s also a lot of other things, and does none really well, there is too much rubbish here to distract from why you came here for.
Never used it, never will, also used by XTRA New Zealand largest ISP as its main page and email

Google there is nothing bigger in Search Engines than Google, it’s quick and has probably the biggest result for a search.
At least Google change the page to suit any events that are coming or on, bust most of the time its bland-ville.

The reason why this post is here, is Bing, now why can’t all search engines have a nice piccy like this, I want to got there.
Now where is it? Anybody know ?
It’s so nice I’ve booked marked and will use it again, all the others I will most likely not.
I wonder if the others will follow suit and get into to 21st century

The above are my opinions and your thoughts are most welcome.
In the mean time, I’mm of the Bing