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• Chrome for Android available for iOS

  In Mobile Devices / By Pui Leng / 2 July 2012

  

  Chrome was most welcomed by iOS users. Less than a day Chrome app has been announced for the iOS platform at Google’s annual I/O event, it has already gotten far, with downloads placing it high on the top free apps charts. The most popular browser in the world promises a similar experience to its desktop variant and it functions exactly like Chrome for Android does.

  

  Some of us may have experienced Chrome for Android on our Ice Cream Sandwich Android devices previously via a rooted Galaxy Nexus. Today, Google removed the “beta” tag that has followed the Chrome app for the past few months, and declared it ready for mass usage. Unfortunately, the new mobile browser is only available for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) and above.

  Have you experienced the features of Google’s Chrome for Android?

  Speed

  Browse fast

  Pages load in a snap and hardware-accelerated page rendering lets you fly through long pages. Experience the mobile web, Chrome fast.

  Search fast

  Search and navigate from the same box. Choose from results that appear as you type, getting to what you want in a snap.

   

  Simplicity

  Unlimited tabs

  Open and switch between an unlimited number of tabs. On your phone, flip through tabs the way you would fan a deck of cards. On your tablet, swipe from edge to edge to switch tabs.

  Easy navigation

  Navigate with a simple, streamlined browser. Link Preview zooms in on links to make selecting the right link easier. Use Find in Page to locate specific words and scroll to see each match.

  

   

  Signing In

  Sign in to Chrome to bring your open tabs, bookmarks and omnibox data from your computer to your phone or tablet. That way, you have your Chrome, on all of your devices.

  

  View open tabs

  Access the tabs you have opened on your computer on your phone or tablet and pick up where you left off.

  Syn bookmarks

  Sync your bookmarks on all of your devices. Quickly go to your favorite sites, no matter where you are.

  Get smarter suggestions

  Spend less time typing. Visit a site on your computer and Chrome will auto complete its address in the omnibox on your phone or tablet.

  Send to mobile

  Send pages from your computer to your phone or tablet with a single click. You can read them on the go, even when you’re offline.

  Auto sign-in

  Automatically sign in to Google sites, like Gmail, for fast and seamless access.

   

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  Chrome for Android Out of Beta, Comes with Google Nexus 7 and Available for iOS Devices (Update)
  Chrome for Android devices

   

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• Google Releases Chrome 20 With Fixes for 20 Security Vulnerabilities

  In IT News, Security Tips / By Gordon / 28 June 2012

  

  Google has released version 20 of its Chrome browser, and has fixed a nice, symmetrical 20 flaws in the browser, including 13 high-risk bugs. Google also paid out $8,000 in rewards to researchers who reported bugs.

  A large number of the bugs fixed in Chrome 20 are use-after-free vulnerabilities in various components of the browser. Many of the flaws in this release of the browser were discovered by members of the Google internal security team. Nearly all the other bugs were discovered and reported by a security researcher named Miaubiz, who took home $7,000 in bug bounties for his efforts.

  In addition to the bug bounties paid to the researchers who reported Chrome-specific bugs, Google also paid out two rewards to researchers who found flaws that had a wider reach. Juri Aedla earned $3,000 for discovering an integer overflow in libxml and Nicholas Gregoire got $500 for a wild read in XSL handling.

  The list of bugs fixed in Chrome 20:

  • [118633] Low CVE-2012-2815: Leak of iframe fragment id. Credit to Elie Bursztein of Google.
  • [Windows only] [119150] [119250] High CVE-2012-2816: Prevent sandboxed processes interfering with each other. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh).
  • [$1000] [120222] High CVE-2012-2817: Use-after-free in table section handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [120944] High CVE-2012-2818: Use-after-free in counter layout. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [120977] High CVE-2012-2819: Crash in texture handling. Credit to Ken “gets” Russell of the Chromium development community.
  • [121926] Medium CVE-2012-2820: Out-of-bounds read in SVG filter handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  • [122925] Medium CVE-2012-2821: Autofill display problem. Credit to “simonbrown60”.
  • [various] Medium CVE-2012-2822: Misc. lower severity OOB read issues in PDF. Credit to awesome ASAN and various Googlers (Kostya Serebryany, Evgeniy Stepanov, Mateusz Jurczyk, Gynvael Coldwind).
  • [$1000] [124356] High CVE-2012-2823: Use-after-free in SVG resource handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [125374] High CVE-2012-2824: Use-after-free in SVG painting. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [128688] Medium CVE-2012-2826: Out-of-bounds read in texture conversion. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
  • [Mac only] [129826] Low CVE-2012-2827: Use-after-free in Mac UI. Credit to the Chromium development community (Dharani Govindan).
  • [129857] High CVE-2012-2828: Integer overflows in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team and Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).
  • [$1000] [129947] High CVE-2012-2829: Use-after-free in first-letter handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [$1000] [129951] High CVE-2012-2830: Wild pointer in array value setting. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [Windows only] [130276] Low CVE-2012-2764: Unqualified load of metro DLL. Credit to Moshe Zioni of Comsec Consulting.
  • [$1000] [130356] High CVE-2012-2831: Use-after-free in SVG reference handling. Credit to miaubiz.
  • [131553] High CVE-2012-2832: Uninitialized pointer in PDF image codec. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team.
  • [132156] High CVE-2012-2833: Buffer overflow in PDF JS API. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team.
  • [$1000] [132779] High CVE-2012-2834: Integer overflow in Matroska container. Credit to Jüri Aedla.

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