Steam Adds In-Game Web Browsing

Posted 01/15/2009 at 1:43am | by Nathan Grayson

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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