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Steam Adds In-Game Web Browsing

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Here at Maximum PC, our goal is to bring you – our tear-jerkingly loyal readers – the world’s finest technology-based news. As you can imagine, this takes a tremendous amount of concentration and, well, you’ve seen the headline. After all, it’s kind of difficult to concentrate on news stories and other such frippery when – one screen away -- a Tank’s attempting to knock our head’s round peg into our torso’s square hole. Convergence, ain’t it grand?

Along with placing a “Web” tab on Steam’s in-game overlay screen, today’s update gives Steam’s five strings a tightening – the results of which you can see here:

  • Updated game overlay web browser to support generic web browsing, including web sites that use flash
  • Fixed games list scrolling behavior with pageup/pagedown and mouse wheel
  • Fixed GTA4 backups not restoring correctly
  • Fixed several cases where matchmaking would not work in Left 4 Dead in using Cafe accounts
  • Changed Friends to be enabled for Cafe accounts
  • Removed 'view invites' dialog on startup, now clicking on a group/user invite toast will take you directly to the Community control page
  • Fixed guest passes not showing immediately in games list
  • Fixed case where a user would be told a guest pass had expired after they had bought the full game
  • Improved Steam Windows Service restart logic in serveral places
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avatarI guess it gives you

I guess it gives you something else to do while you wait for Valve's lagcode to allow you to respawn.

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avatarUm, not to be a total

Um, not to be a total downer, but what's the point in browsing the web ingame?  So you can go to the walkthrough sites without alt-tabbing?    Also, how many security holes are going to pop up with this so that the malware sites can compromise computer?

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avatarYESSSSSSSSS!

AWESOME! I always though that it would be nice to browse the internet in game. And Steam delivered! I <3 steam!

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avatarSorry Andy :D

Couldn't resist.

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