Steam client update released

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A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

 

New Features

 

• Updated friends chats to use new tabbed chat interface (see Friends tab in the Settings dialog to turn off opening in new tabs by default)
  
• Updated in-game overlay browser to use new tabbed browsing interface (Use Middle click on links to open-in-new-tab)
  
• Tabbed Browser/Chat HotKeys: Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to switch tabs. Ctrl-W, Ctrl-F4 or Middle click to close tabs.
  
• Updated WebKit code for client/in-game browser (improved stability and performance on OSX, various browser fixes)
  
• Windows: 64 bit build of the in-game overlay (useable now with any 64bit non-Steam game you may add)Windows: 64 bit builds of Steamworks DLLs (for upcoming titles)
  

 

Fixes

 

• New non-blocking game uninstall dialog
  
• Improved client shutdown times
  
• Fix some cases of Steam becoming unresponsive for 5-10 seconds when new game updates are released
  
• Fixed unused game tags still showing up
  
• Reinstalling from a goldmaster triggers a content verification if the game is already installed
  
• Fixed sometimes needing to restart Steam after installing PhysX
  
• Changed overlay hot-key detection to not consider ctrl-shift-tab to be the same as shift-tab, thus allowing its use in tabbed chat/browsing in-game
  
• Fixed hidden achievements showing up in the game details page and overlay so close… ui
  
• Fixed a crash on shutdown
  
• Fixed an issue with input tab ordering in group chats
  
• Increased timeouts on Steam Cloud file uploads
  
• Fixed Rabobank payment page for iDEAL checkout not showing correctly in the Steam Client
  
• Fixed a bug parsing certain HTML tags inside News bodies
  
• Fixed top half of avatar images in chats not being right clickable for context menu
  
• Fixed a potential crash when failing to parse new stats/achievements data for a game
  
• Fixed bug/exploit with malformed www. URLs in chats
  
• Windows: Fixed the alt key sometimes sticking in the in-game overlay after an alt-tab event
  
• Windows: Improved overlay compatibility with some previously conflicting third party applications
  
• Windows: Fixes to progress bar on win7 task icon in handling paused downloads as well as finished downloads
  
• OSX: Fix several memory leaksOSX: Fix copy/paste resulting in extra random string data
  

 

 

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