Steam Update Adds In-game Web Browsing

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 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