Chrome 44 Final: Improvements to Notifications API and promoted add to homescreen

Google has released Chrome 44.0.2403.89 to the Stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 44 final release includes new ES6 features and a number of updates to existing APIs. This release also includes 43 security fixes.

What's new in Chrome Stable 44?
According to Chromium blog, Chrome 44 includes new ES6 features and a number of updates to existing APIs.

Here are some highlights of changes in Chrome 44:

Improved notification capabilities
Sites may now use getNotifications to observe which of their notifications are still being displayed, and Notification.data to store a payload with a notification so they can determine which notification was clicked.

Promoted add to homescreen improvements
Chrome 44 fires a cancellable beforeinstallprompt event before the banner is shown, allowing developers to measure user interaction with the feature. Developers are also now able to offer the banner for their native Android app.

ES6 computed property names
Chrome 44 increase the expressiveness of the object literal syntax by providing support for ES6 computed property names, allowing developers to put an expression in brackets [], to be computed as the property name at runtime.

Other updates in this release

• Chrome’s implementation of the Push API has undergone several minor breaking changes in order to keep up to date with the evolving specification.
• ES6 extended Unicode escape sequences allow developers to use the extended set of Unicode characters in JavaScript string literals, where previously characters whose escape sequences contain more than four hexadecimal values were unable to be denoted.
• This release includes a new implementation of multi-column layout by Opera engineer Morten Stenshorne, solving historic issues with incorrect column balancing.
• Developers should now use the scroll attributes of document.scrollingElement instead of document.body as the latter has several well known issues.

For more information about features coming to Chrome, check out The Chromium Blog.

Download Google Chrome Stable 44
Google Chrome Stable for Windows, Mac and Linux are available at the following website. Click on the "Accept and Install" button to start the download.

• Chrome 44 32-bit Stable for Desktop: Download Google Chrome
• Chrome 44 64-bit Stable for Windows 7 and 8/8.1 Desktop: Download Google Chrome

Security fixes:
Chrome 44 includes a number of security fixes. Please see the Chrome Releases for more information.

Version History:

• Google Chrome Stable 44.0.2403.89 : [July 20, 2015]

Source:
Google Chrome Stable Channel Update