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Plenty of noise has been made in the past about Google Chrome and version jumping, but a little grumbling isn't going to slow Google down. Today, Chrome's dev channel reached a new milestone, hitting version 5.0.
For those of you counting, it's been a little over 16 months since version 1 first appeared.
The list of changes so far is fairly small. Mac users will notice a bit more of a difference, with fixes addressing plugin stability and crashing while dragging tabs, a slightly improved cookies manager, and minor tweaks to Chrome's task manager.
On Windows, there are two key updates. First, Chrome will now use your default downloads folder (i.e. Username\Downloads on Vista and Windows 7) instead of creating a new Documents\Downloads folder.
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Work has also begun on the new Content Settings window. User settings for cookies, pop-ups, plugins, scripts, and images are being moved to their own panel. It was decided that the Under the Hood page was getting a bit lengthy and required too much scrolling.
If you're already running the dev channel, just head to the wrench menu -> about and check for updates. If not, you can download the dev channel build manually from this page
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel