Event pages keep apps and extensions efficient by allowing them to respond to a variety of events such as timers or navigation to a particular site, without having to remain running persistently. But what if you need to respond to something that occurs outside of Chrome, such as a news alert, a message sent to…
Tag Archive: extensions
Chrome Extensions: Now with more powerful scripts and improved proxy management.
In Chrome 13, we added some new capabilities to content scripts and proxy management. First, you can now make cross-origin XMLHttpRequest calls with the privileges of the extension directly from your content script. You will no longer need to relay these requests through a background page; this should simplify your code. In some cases, it…
ChromeVox: Built-In Spoken Feedback For Chrome OS
Cross posted at the Google Code blog We recently unveiled ChromeVox — a built-in screen reader for Chrome OS — during Google I/O 2011. This is an early developer beta that is designed to help authors of web applications come up to speed with platform accessibility on Chrome OS. ChromeVox is built as a Chrome…
CR-48 Owners: Beware of Too Many Extensions & Synchronization
Besides my Google CR-48 notebook, I also use an Apple 15″ MacBook Pro. I use Chrome on the Mac and enabled synchronization of everything between it and the CR-48. I have the same bookmarks, extensions and apps on each device which is very convenient. No longer do I discover that a bookmark or extension is…
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Dev Channel Update
The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.20 for Chrome Frame, Mac, Linux, and Windows
This build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how.
If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Anthony Laforge
Google ChromePosted: May 21, 2013, 8:30 pmStable Channel Release
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 27.0.1453.93 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including:- Web pages load 5% faster on average
- chrome.syncFileSystem API
- Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions. Please see the Help Center for more information on our updated policies.
Security fixes and rewards:Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)
This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):-
[$1000] [235638] High CVE-2013-2837: Use-after-free in SVG. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.
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[$500] [235311] Medium CVE-2013-2838: Out-of-bounds read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.
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[$1500] [230176] High CVE-2013-2839: Bad cast in clipboard handling. Credit to Jon of MWR InfoSecurity.
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[$1000] [230117] High CVE-2013-2840: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Nils of MWR InfoSecurity.
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[$1000] [227350] High CVE-2013-2841: Use-after-free in Pepper resource handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
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[$2000] [226696] High CVE-2013-2842: Use-after-free in widget handling. Credit to Cyril Cattiaux.
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[$1000] [222000] High CVE-2013-2843: Use-after-free in speech handling. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
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[$1000] [196393] High CVE-2013-2844: Use-after-free in style resolution. Credit to Sachin Shinde (@cons0ul).
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[$1000] [177620] High CVE-2013-2846: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
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[$1000] [176692] High CVE-2013-2847: Use-after-free race condition with workers. Credit to Collin Payne.
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[$500] [176137] Medium CVE-2013-2848: Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor. Credit to Egor Homakov.
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[171392] Low CVE-2013-2849: Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste. Credit to Mario Heiderich.
In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:-
[241595] High CVE-2013-2836: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.
This build also contains a new Adobe Flash build. You can find more information here.
Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Karen Grunberg
Google ChromePosted: May 21, 2013, 4:30 pmBeta Channel Update for Chrome OS
The Beta channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.103 (Platform version: 3912.79.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.
Release Highlights:- Pepper Flash updated to 11.7.700.202
- Stability Fixes
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).
Josafat Garcia
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