Surf The Internet While In-Game - A New Steam Update

[DigiQ8]

A new Steam update has been released tonight, which gives you the ability to browse the internet while in game including web sites that use flash.

• 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

Screenshot below.

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[taviow]

Oh my god, Glenn

 

[AciD]

SAYS:

Yo dawg, I heard you like browsing interwebz so we put browser in your game so you may browse when you play!​

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Awesome update! (He edited that conversation, I never said those words!)

Those comments do not reflect the views of the management.

 

[Vegeta897]

I'm cool.

 

[taviow]

Glenn is such a liar...
Well I have proof:

 

[Reginald]

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AciD resistant valves.

 

[AciD]

AciD resistant valves.

This ad is my curse, it follows me on all Valve related sites .

 

[bam23]

wasn't it always possible?

 

[kacation_man]

I've been waiting for this for a long time..

i would still like valve to implement multi-IM into the steam friends.. but meebo.com shall have to do for now

( for those who dont know meebo.com is a multi-IM you can use in your brower i thought it came in handy )

 

[giant384]

wasn't it always possible?

only worked for steam store

 

[Krynn72]

Its awesome that they fixed the steam backup thing for GTA IV, but now I cant play it because of a securom error that I wasnt getting before the update. I also got banned from steam chat because of it. *glares at AciD*

 

[kineaesth]

clicking on a group/user invite toast

Toast what what?

Also COOL

 

[Operational]

I was playing around with this while it was in beta, very useful.

Also you can do stuff like this
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=768421
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3162/steamvibelz2.png

 

[NeoNight]

SAYS:

Yo dawg, I heard you like browsing interwebz so we put browser in your game so you may browse when you play!​

what is this pimp my steam? :afro:

Also, useful features are great.

I now have a reason to allow myself to run some of the games I have through steam.

 

[tschumann]

only worked for steam store

It does?

 

[Vegeta897]

Yo dawg we put a game store in yo game so you can buy counterstrike while you play counterstrike.

 

[Unfocused]

Now I can play Quake Live while playing CS:S.

Let the AFKing begin.

 

[ríomhaire]

Yo dawg we put a game store in yo game so you can buy counterstrike while you play counterstrike.

You're doing it wrong!

 

[Marler]

Very useful, although it was a bit slow in the beta so don't don't know if it's quicker now.

 

[Chris D]

I always knew Digi and Glenn were at it....! :O

 

[McGooTheWise]

Good thing you took screen shot for a news. I don't know what I'd do without this news. It's quite a news.

...

Awesome, btw.

 

[Adabiviak]

Oddddddd feature, in my opinion, but I imagine it'll catch on. I like the immersion they present in their games, and this is the last thing I'd want to do during a game.

 

[Reflex]

lol'd at the chat with glenn

 

[Munro]

Hurrah! Now I have something to do when I get killed 10 seconds into a CS:S game

 

[ríomhaire]

Why is it only avaible when in-game?

 

[Operational]

Why would you need it outside of a game?

 

[Jintor]

I can't seem to log into hl2.net forums via the steam browser. On the other hand, it's entirely possible I've just forgotton my password.

 

[Laivasse]

Gmail works just fine and dandy in this, which saves me having to alt+tab out to deal with those convos. Great.

 

[Kadayi]

Saves alt -tabbing I guess. GJ Valve.

 

[Marler]

Next thing to do is add MSN messenger support

 

[Nitre]

Nah, they should just make Steam its own independent OS.

 

[Marler]

Steam or Valve operating system? MSN in game support? Bidding on ebay while playing Left 4 Dead? This is the future of gaming!

 

[Operational]

Nah, they should just make Steam its own independent OS.

Gabe leaves an OS company to found a game company which turns into another OS company... I like it.

 

[Rebel Racer]

It's very cool that they added this feature! It'll be a little easier to lookup walkthroughs for games while I'm playing them, now.

...Although posting pics on /b/ is a hassle.

It would be cool if they eventually added favorites, history, and other typical browser features.

 

[G(ordon)-man]

Nah, they should just make Steam its own independent OS.

Yeah, and Half Life: EP3 is the exclusive of SteamOS.

...Although posting pics on /b/ is a hassle.

/b/ is bad
D:

 

[G-Dub]

Nice feature, very handy.

I was thinking about this only the other day, and how I would like to browse the web during L4D respawns