Google Chrome 0.4.154.25 released

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Available in beta since early September, Google Chrome was announced in final version by January 2009. Sundar Pichai, a Vice-Presidents (and director) from Google has revealed on the website of The Times newspaper on November 20.

Sundar Pichai sets out a little more ambition Google on the browser market, announcing a campaign to promote the provision of the final version of the software. This could also go through partnerships with manufacturers of PCs, Chrome invited to preinstall on their machines.

A new engine Javascript

Meanwhile, the development of the browser continues. Since yesterday, Monday 24 November, a new beta is available for download only for Windows XP and Vista. The update will automatically and gradually on PC users.

0.4.154.25 This version fixes some bugs, updates the JavaScript engine, the module Gear (which allows it runs real applications from the browser) and brings in some new management bookmarks and confidentiality and the blocker pop-up.

On the competition, Mozilla and Microsoft have announced delays on the output of their future browsers. Microsoft postponed to 2009 the availability of the final version of Internet Explorer 8, while the Mozilla Foundation has lagged that of the beta 2 of Firefox 3.1, which must include a navigation mode private eagerly awaited.

Google Chrome version 0.4.154.25 has been released. You will automatically get updated in the next few days.

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New Features

Bookmark manager with import/export.
Use the 'Customize and control Google Chrome' (wrench) menu to open
the Bookmark manager. You can search bookmarks, create folders, and
drag and drop bookmarks to new locations. The Bookmark Manager's Tools
menu lets you export or import bookmarks.

Privacy section in Options.
We grouped together all of the configuration options for features that
might send data to another service. Open the wrench menu, click
Options, and select the Under the Hood tab.

New blocked pop-up notification.
The pop-up blocker formerly just minimized pop-up windows to the lower
right corner of the browser window, create one 'constrained' window
for each pop-up. Now, Google Chrome displays one small notification in
the corner that shows the number of blocked pop-ups. A menu on the
notification lets you open a specific pop-up, if needed.

Security Issues
This release fixes an issue with downloaded HTML files being able to
read other files on your computer and send them to sites on the
Internet. We now prevent local files from connecting to the network
with XMLHttpRequest() and also prompt you to confirm a download if it
is an HTML file.
Severity: Moderate. If a user could be enticed to open a downloaded
HTML file, this flaw could be exploited to send arbitrary files to an
attacker.
[Originally fixed in 154.18]

Other Updates
Bug-fix updates (no new features) to major components:
* Gears is updated to version 0.5.4.0 (from 0.4.24.0).
* V8 (JavaScript engine) is updated to 0.3.9.2 (from 0.3.5.0).

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Google Inc. has declared to bring it’s recently launched Web browser, Chrome, out of test mode. The Web browser is brought out of test mode just 100 days after its debut.

This seems an unusual quick transition for a company that is known for keeping the “beta” tag on some products for years.

The announcement of bringing Google’s browser from test version, underscores its importance to the Internet search leader. The search giant is making efforts to attract users away from the leading browsers, Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox.

Since its Sept. 2 introduction, Chrome has attracted more than 10 million active users around the world. But still it has a long way to catch up to Internet Explorer, which has about 70% of the market, Firefox held about 20%, while Apple Inc.’s Safari was third with less than 10%. Chrome has a market share of even less than 1%.

The Chrome has been put out of beta as it does a better job of playing video and audio than it was first introduced, loads pages even more quickly and offers more controls over bookmarks and privacy.

The updates will automatically be made for people already using Chrome.

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