Steam Update Adds In-game Web Browsing

January 15, 2009 by tcgames 

Valve today released an update to Steam that includes the final version of the in-game web browser from December’s beta patch.

A "Web" tab at the bottom of the in-game overlay opens up the generic browser. Highlighting, copying and pasting is supported, but right-click is apparently disabled.

The rest of the update adds random fixes to various games and Steam systems.

The full patch notes follow:

  • 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 …

Source: ShackNews.com

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One Response to “Steam Update Adds In-game Web Browsing”

  1. ShavenLunatic on January 23rd, 2009 3:13 am

    about time too :)

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