Google Rolls Chrome 98 Into Beta With COLRv1 Font Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Rolls Chrome 98 Into Beta With COLRv1 Font Support

Following last week's release of Chrome 97, Google has promoted Chrome 98 to beta form...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-98-Beta

[ezst036]

The world's most user-friendly spyware gets even better!

[Rob72]

No news on wayland by default?

[tildearrow]

They don't want Firefox to win the version number race...

[tuxd3v]

The world's most user-friendly spyware gets even better!

Now it even has lipstick colour support..

[mb_q]

From the COLRv1 speech video: yeah, we know OpenType has SVG, but it wasn't cool enough...

[cytomax55]

97 from the aur is terrible.... cant move tabs anymore and cant even edit the bookmarks, god speed version 98 god speed

[Sonadow]

Just what the world needs...more sparkly, coloured fonts for the modernfag.

[labj1987]

No news on wayland by default?

I have been using the dev version which is 98 on Ubuntu 22.04 and it works out of the box without me needing to add any flags. Using Wayland with an Nvidia gpu. The stable and previous beta version would just open with an unusable invisible window.