New Oxide stable release 1.5.5 available

[David Barth]

1.5.5 is the latest official stable release of the 1.5 series of Oxide, due for all supported releases of Ubuntu.

It fixes a few crashers and provides some improvements. Per the changelog:

  - Bump Chromium rev to 41.0.2272.76
  - Fix LP: #1427828 - Crash in WebFrame.sendMessageNoReply
  - Fix LP: #1411159 - Add work-around for shutdown crash in
    content::GpuChannelHost::Send, by deliberately leaking the
    cc::ContextProvider referenced by any task posted to the UI thread if
    the task never got a chance to run and is destroyed when the main loop
    is torn down. Note that 1.6 has the longer term fix for this crash.
  - Fix LP: #1421339 - Two scrollbars shown on the phone at a page scale of 1.
    + This is fixed by disabling the outer viewport scrollbars when
      pinch-viewport is on (copying Chrome on Android).
    + Also style the pinch viewport overlay scrollbars like Chrome on Android,
      as opposed to using the default desktop style that are designed to be
      dragged with a pointer
  - Fix LP: #1423531 - LoadEvent.isError is false for the error page if the
    navigation is triggered from a session restore or reload

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Note that oxide is currently at version 1.4.2 in RTM. The 1.5 series fixes many more bugs (and adds new APIs) than the above changelog excerpt (which lists only fixes from 1.5.3 to 1.5.5).

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

I have it planned for the next update on RTM

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Olivier Tilloy <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Note that oxide is currently at version 1.4.2 in RTM. The 1.5 series
> fixes many more bugs (and adds new APIs) than the above changelog
> excerpt (which lists only fixes from 1.5.3 to 1.5.5).
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