Which version of webkit in a given Chrome release?

[Michael O'Rourke]

I've run into some webkit bugs that have been fixed and my content
works fine in Safari 5.0.2.

But Chrome 7.0.517.44 is still incorrect.

How can I find the version of webkit in a particular Chrome release so
I can validate that this isn't now a separate Chrome bug versus I just
need to wait for Chrome to pick up a new webkit release?

Also, anyone have info about how often Chrome picks up new webkit
releases?

Thanks,

Michael

[PhistucK]

WebKit is being picked up every day, I believe, sometimes even several times per day.

Usually, the stable version has a WebKit revision from about a month and a half prior to the first stable version of a major version (so the WebKit version of 7 should be a snapshot of an early September WebKit).

To know for sure, go to http://omahaproxy.appspot.com/revision, type the full version number and you will get the Chrome revision number from which that major version was branched (this time it is 64615).

To get the WebKit revision, go to this URL -

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/DEPS?pathrev=64615

(Replace "64615" with the revision number you got from the previous URL.)

And at the top of the file, there is this line -

"webkit_revision": "71013",

Which is the WebKit revision that was used for that release (71013).

Keep in mind that there might have been Chrome specific merges\reverts for WebKit after that version was branched, but if those changes were actually committed, they will usually be within the range of several, not a lot of changes.

You can also track those, if you are interested -

http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/517/src/webkit/?view=log

(Replace "517" with one of the full version numbers (7.0.517.44))

☆PhistucK

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[Sig Weber]

On Nov 24, 12:14 am, "Michael O'Rourke" <michael.k.orou...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I've run into some webkit bugs that have been fixed and my content
> works fine in Safari 5.0.2.
>
> But Chrome 7.0.517.44 is still incorrect.
>
> How can I find the version of webkit in a particular Chrome release so
> I can validate that this isn't now a separate Chrome bug versus I just
> need to wait for Chrome to pick up a new webkit release?

Additionally to what PhistucK mentioned, you could also check the
UserAgent string which usually contains a Webkit build number. There
are several online services like http://www.httpuseragent.org/ showing
your user agent. Mine says AppleWebKit/534.12.

HTH

Cheers,

Sig

[Pierre]

Difficult to imagine more complicated ! It supposes a strong
motivation for getting Webkit version lol

[PhistucK]

Yeah, clicking on a link, typing the version, copying the result, pasting it into another URL and reading - that is very hard to do. I would have to be really motivated.

(?!)

☆PhistucK

[Tibor]

about:version also displays WebKit version:
Google Chrome 9.0.587.0 (Official Build 66374) dev
WebKit 534.12