Webbläsaren Chrome vinner mark på konkurrenternas bekostnad och Google fortsätter att lansera nya versioner i en rasande takt. Nya Chrome 12.0 innehåller i vanlig ordning flera nyheter, bland annat möjligheten att accelerera 3D-CSS med grafikkort och bättre säkerhet för nedladdningar.

Ändringsloggen avslöjar även en hög mindre fixar och förbättringar, exempelvis möjligheten att radera cookies relaterade till Flash, stöd för att starta applikationer via sökfältet samt förbättrad integration med Sync. Google passar även på att ta bort stödet för Gears, som nu ersätts med webbstandarder som HTML5.

Google Chrome 12.0 släpps till Windows, Mac OS X och Linux. Den senaste versionen av webbläsaren kan laddas ned från utvecklarnas webbplats.

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The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 12 to the Stable Channel for all platforms. Chrome 12.0.742.91 includes a number of new features and updates, including:

  • Hardware accelerated 3D CSS

  • New Safe Browsing protection against downloading malicious files

  • Ability to delete Flash cookies from inside Chrome

  • Launch Apps by name from the Omnibox

  • Integrated Sync into new settings pages

  • Improved screen reader support

  • New warning when hitting Command-Q on Mac

  • Removal of Google Gears

Security fixes and rewards:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.

  • High CVE-2011-1808: Use-after-free due to integer issues in float handling. Credit to miaubiz.

  • Medium CVE-2011-1809: Use-after-free in accessibility support. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).

  • Low CVE-2011-1810: Visit history information leak in CSS. Credit to Jesse Mohrland of Microsoft and Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR).

  • Low CVE-2011-1811: Browser crash with lots of form submissions. Credit to “DimitrisV22”.

  • Medium CVE-2011-1812: Extensions permission bypass. Credit to kuzzcc.

  • High CVE-2011-1813: Stale pointer in extension framework. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

  • Medium CVE-2011-1814: Read from uninitialized pointer. Credit to Eric Roman of the Chromium development community.

  • Low CVE-2011-1815: Extension script injection into new tab page. Credit to kuzzcc.

  • Medium CVE-2011-1816: Use-after-free in developer tools. Credit to kuzzcc.

  • Medium CVE-2011-1817: Browser memory corruption in history deletion. Credit to Collin Payne.

  • High CVE-2011-1818: Use-after-free in image loader. Credit to miaubiz.

  • Medium CVE-2011-1819: Extension injection into chrome:// pages. Credit to Vladislavas Jarmalis, plus subsequent independent discovery by Sergey Glazunov.

  • High CVE-2011-2332: Same origin bypass in v8. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

  • High CVE-2011-2342: Same origin bypass in DOM. Credit to Sergey Glazunov.

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