FINALLY. Google Chrome stable branch gets a very welcome update today — native support for Lion’s full-screen mode, as well as the awesome disappearing scrollbars that everyone hates loves! I’m pretty happy about it, considering this comes after an interesting discussion with the Chrome dev team about whether or not all this was necessary.
I can’t find the original comments anymore, but there was a time when the Chromium team deemed this unnecessary, seeing as Chrome already had a full screen mode, etc. Granted, the UI elements were nowhere near the same, and Chrome wouldn’t get its own Desktop like Safari or iTunes does.
The beta channel also included native support for the same touch gestures supported by Safari, but it has since been removed. Not sure why, and I hope it comes back. As it stands now, you have to disable Spaces changes with two-finger swipe in order to get ANY gesture-based navigation working in Chrome, but such is life. When we’re all about #blamelion, we can’t really have our cake AND eat it too, wouldn’t you say?
Hit up the Chrome menu in your title bar and hit About Google Chrome, and it should prompt you to relaunch within just a couple of seconds. Have fun with your new Lion-y goodness!
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Feeling kinda Wit's-Endy here, as my "old" Google was rejected by Lion, which kept telling me it was damaged and couldn't open. When I tried to reinstall from a new dmg, I went through the joys (trying for sarcasm, but it too is elusive) of the Lion response: "For each item, choose File > Get Info, make sure “Locked” is deselected, etc." (WTF "items" is it talking about, I wondered.) When I was about to give up on a reinstall, I found out I could simply drag the old Chrome to the trash. Now, having cajoled Lion into installing the "new" dmg I thought I'd just downloaded, Google has informed me that I updated to an older version. Just dragged that version to the trash too and am looking for the most Lion-compatible Chrome download presently available. Any ideas about this gratefully accepted, as Google downloading looks like a minefield to me now. Thanks a heap.
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LikeIt's definitely a step forward, but they haven't managed to make the tab bar move with the mac top bar. Seems they have tried to mend this by putting a(n ugly) icon in the top right corner :P Hope this gets fixed :)
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