“Google has issued a new stable release of the Chrome Web browser and is rolling it out to users. The new version introduces some noteworthy JavaScript performance enhancements, new plug-in security features, improved support for synchronization, and a new user interface for managing the browser’s settings.”
I have always wondered if installation in user land is secure on Windows. After all, in this read/write space, any malicious application can alter the Chrome binary or libraries and grab some sensitive information. This would be impossible under C:\Program Files\
What do you think?
Is it that new flash sandboxing that is causing all those graphics errors and frequent crashes I experience with chrome lately? YouTube become a real PITA. I have to restart Chrome for almost each video. Well, it seems to have something to do with switching through the tabs and un-blocking other flash embeds during playing a flash video. How is a crash more secure than it was before?
Flash is crashing here too, although I’m using chromium 11.
It sometimes works, but the plugin crashes like 99 times out of 100.
Now I’m just using minitube to watch youtube videos, and not really missing flash for anything else *shrugs*
Who’da thought not having Flash wouldn’t be the end of civilisation…
Let’s assume the timing of the earthquake was a coincidence.
…not installing Flash by default to begin with. Make it optional, as it used to be, and as it should be. Instant security boost, above what even a sandbox will likely provide… and if the user chooses to install Flash, well, the sandbox will protect them as much as it can (never mind vulnerabilities in the sandbox and stuff…).
I hadn’t even noticed a new Chrome.
While I’m a big fan of auto-updating, I at least wish they’d tell me when a new version was installed.
The main thing keeping me from using Chrome is font sizes, in firefox i can set a minimum size font so stupid emails, websites, forum posts etc that people feel they need to use size 5 font i can read without having to zoom….why can’t chrome do this simple needed feature?
Don’t know about Chrome 10, but that’s (font size selection) available in Chrome 11 dev.
I actually just updated to Chromium 10 and it is in, woohoo!