For a long time, the fight for the supremacy of the browser kingdom has involved just two major players: Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, each trying to attract more users with their functionality. However, the search engine giant Google has decided to enter the battle with its very own solution: Google Chrome.
Since its launch in 2008, Google’s browser has quickly attracted attention and users no longer install it only to check out a new app, since it already showed that it can be just as stable and feature-packed as the dedicated browsers.
Installation is extremely easy due to the simple setup pack that makes the whole task just a matter of clicking “Next” a few times, along with some options that are far from complicated.
The interface is clean and pleasant, but those who do not really like it can easily apply themes, so that every one can bring their very own touch to an otherwise static app. Being focused on leaving the user plenty of room for viewing the visited webpage, the interface is kept as minimalistic as possible, with the address bar featuring all the buttons one might require for navigation.
Another way to customize Google Chrome and make it more suitable to one's needs is to install extensions – Google has created a comprehensive Webstore for these extensions, where users can find basically any type of app or extension, ranging from education to games, lifestyle and blogging.
A novelty introduced by Google Chrome is the fact that when the user visits more than a single website, more processes are started, so that if one of the webpages crashes, the user can simply terminate its tab (and implicitly its process), without closing the whole browser.
Also, this browser places a lot of emphasis on user privacy, so the Incognito Mode was created. It allows users to explore the Internet the usual way, but when the app is closed, it automatically erases all cookies and history it may have created, thus ensuring one's privacy is maintained.
The freeware license and the frequent updates convince more and more users to take this browser into consideration. Designed with simplicity in mind, it is an easy to use app that can become a powerful package if the user chooses to install add-ons. This makes it the perfect browser basically for every type of user out there.
What's New in This Release:
· A special reward for Andrey Labunets for his combination of CVE-2013-2879 and CVE-2013-2868 along with some (since fixed) server-side bugs.
· Low CVE-2013-2867: Block pop-unders in various scenarios.
· High CVE-2013-2879: Confusion setting up sign-in and sync.
· Medium CVE-2013-2868: Incorrect sync of NPAPI extension component.
· Medium CVE-2013-2869: Out-of-bounds read in JPEG2000 handling.
· Critical CVE-2013-2870: Use-after-free with network sockets.
· Medium CVE-2013-2853: Man-in-the-middle attack against HTTP in SSL.
· High CVE-2013-2871: Use-after-free in input handling.
· Low CVE-2013-2872: Possible lack of entropy in renderers.
· High CVE-2013-2873: Use-after-free in resource loading.
· Medium CVE-2013-2874: Screen data leak with GL textures.
· Medium CVE-2013-2875: Out-of-bounds-read in SVG.
· Medium CVE-2013-2876: Extensions permissions confusion with interstitials.
· Low CVE-2013-2877: Out-of-bounds read in XML parsing.
· Remove the “viewsource” attribute on iframes.
· Medium CVE-2013-2878: O...