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Google updates its Chrome web browser
Better beta and stable
Thu May 21 2009, 21:36
GOOGLE ANNOUNCED today on its Chrome bog that it has made some improvements to the plucky little web browser with the shiny name.
The updates reportedly include an improved New Tab Page that can now be edited, a full-screen mode finally, form autofill, and increased speed and stability.
Google says it has moved Chrome to 'the stable channel' but it still can't bring itself to call the software released. Apparently it's doomed to forever remain Beta. µ
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So, Chrome fans, how do you forward a link or page from within Chrome again? Cuz I've been using it for a few weeks on my home W7 box and I can't for the life of me find the 'send link' or 'send page' button or menu item...
Because without that function, it's lametacular.
You obviously didn't even read the article you just linked, because you proved Ian M was correct.
"According to Larson, the bug is in WebKit's handling of SVGList objects, and could be exploited by hackers able to dupe users into visiting a malicious site. But because Chrome runs in a "sandbox," a security technology that blocks access to the system, even if a hacker managed to hijack the browser, he could only run attack code in that sandbox surrounding the browser."
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/303445/google_chrome_hackable_pwn2own_contest
(stupid CAPTCHAS - think this comment didn't get through)
@Ted - that's not correct, Charlie Miller (who won the hacking contest Pwn2Own) said he couldn't hack Chrome, and specifically because of the security design. Interview here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941
"There are bugs in Chrome but they’re very hard to exploit. I have a Chrome vulnerability right now but I don’t know how to exploit it. It’s really hard. The’ve got that sandbox model that’s hard to get out of. With Chrome, it’s a combination of things — you can’t execute on the heap, the OS protections in Windows and the Sandbox."
@Ben - Sigh, another anti-Chrome troll.
Newer versions of Chrome have grouped all the privacy options together. I doubt you've actually looked.
Also, have a look at what some other browsers are doing *cough* IE *cough*
Let's hope you don't have to be running as admin to use it with this version.
Chrome will be beta until it gets extensions.
At the moment it can't even integrate with Google's own services (I'm looking at you bookmarks!).
Chrome is still beta because its incomplete.
Chhrome was last browser standing simply because nobody bothered to attack it.
The authors of the attacks that worked on the other browsers (and obviously Safari) are on record as saying they would have worked just as easily with Chrome, if they had bothered to try... but it's all about winning prizes.
No-one wants google knowing every website they visit, that is why barely anyone uses chrome.
It is already ported to linux, you just have to build the sources yourself. The binary distribution is coming soon as is the mac version.
Also, its still in beta because there are many many features/bugs left. For example, the extensions and user scripts sub-systems are still under heavy development.
Maybe it will be ported to Linux. Until then I will stick with FireFox or Epiphany. I recall that Chrome was the last browser standing at a hacking contest because of it's sandbox design on memory usage.