Google Chrome Beta, Dev channels now support Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails

[javajolt]

Earlier today, Google pushed updates to both the Chrome beta and dev channels. The good news? Apart from other minor patches and fixes users of both testing versions on Windows 7 now see per-tab taskbar thumbnail previews.

If you haven't received the update yet, you can force a check by clicking the wrench menu and then "About Google Chrome." Downloads are also available from Google's early access channels page (http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel).

It's not without bugs, though. @keshav and I have both had a glitch which seems to occur when using win+d to show the desktop where tiny windows will appear along the top of your taskbar.



I've also experienced a problem similar to the one which plagued Firefox when support for this feature was first added: the spinning blue circle. It seems to occur mostly when (wait for it)...an uncooperative Flash embed appears on a web page.

[Jake]

Version 5 already?  It's little things like this that make me wonder about Google, they make small changes like OS integration and bump it up a major version number.  Nearly any other software company would only bump it up by .1 or maybe .5.

Except Mozilla of course which is skipping Firefox 3.6.1 right to 3.6.2