Steam Client Update Allows For In-Game Web Browsing

A Steam client update rolled out today by Valve allows for in-game web browsing. This is an extremely useful feature considering that you can add non-steam games to your steam client and use their game overlay web browser and surf the web while you frag on. Web browsing while gaming is actually pretty popular, considering the fact that GotGame.com even made their own web browser, dubbed Rogue, just for this very thing. Although, it does makes you wonder why Steam didn’t include this feature a long time ago. They have had web browsing capabilities for quite awhile but the address bar had always been disabled.

Demonstration of Steam's in-game web browser

Here is the list of changes Valve rolled out in their latest Steam client update:

• 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

For those who haven’t tried Steam or don’t know much about it, you can get it via the Steam website.

Let’s hope we’ll see more features and updates to the Steam client that will be this useful.