As you likely know, Chromebooks aren’t being sold in brick and mortar stores, at least not at this time. They are only being sold via the internet. Considering that the $350 – $500 is a lot of cash to invest in something you haven’t touched or seen up close, let alone something that whose most…
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Chromebooks For Business – Video
As part of Google’s ongoing campaign to lure businesses to switch to their ‘cloud operating system’ (Chrome OS) they have been releasing a steady flow of promotional videos aimed at businesses. One recent video is more specifically aimed at medium sized firms that Google believes may reap benefits from moving to their Chromebooks. ‘Jason’s Deli’…
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Chrome for Android Update
The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable channel. Chrome for Android 27.0.1453.90 contains a number of improvments including:- Fullscreen on phones - Scroll down the page and the toolbar will disappear.
- Simpler searching - Searching from the omnibox will keep your search query visible in the omnibox, making it easier to edit, and show more on your search result page.
- Client-side certificate support - You can now access sites that require you to use a certificate and Chrome will allow you to select an installed certificate
- Tab history on tablets - Long press the browser back button to view your tab history
- And a ton of stability and performance fixes
Jason Kersey
Google ChromePosted: May 22, 2013, 4:08 pmDev 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 pm -
