Google Chrome 3 Beta

Google has released a new version of their browser Chrome. The new beta version adds support for HTML5 >video< tag. This feature is also included in the somewhat unstable Linux build. If you have the Chrome repository in your software sources list then you can try it out. Just install it / run the update using your favorite software package manager.

You can try the feature at Youtube HTML5 demo page. The video rendering is working but some other features still don't:

• Full screen playback


• Seeking


• Right click -> open video in new tab - crashes the browser


• Sometimes the sound is missing

I hope that Google will target all these issues for the stable release. Maybe one day I can ditch the crappy flashplayer once for all.