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Google's New Web Browser (pg. 4)
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| jsibilin |
I have installed/re-installed this thing like 3 x .. still hasn't worked for me
Aw, SNAP! |
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| love_child |
everything else
Opera |
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| Orko |
The only thing we need now are plugins.
I want to be able to use adblock and flashblock like in FF. |
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
So apparently Google Chrome gained 1% of the web browsing market share yesterday...
Definitely pretty good if you think about it!
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Absolutely not possible to calculate that in one day. Not everybody uses the internet everyday. |
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| malek |
SECURITY THREAT, please read. Don't forget this is only a beta.
Google’s shiny new Web browser is vulnerable to a carpet-bombing vulnerability that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks.
Just hours after the release of Google Chrome, researcher Aviv Raff discovered that he could combine two vulnerabilities — a flaw in Apple Safari (WebKit) and a Java bug discussed at this year’s Black Hat conference — to trick users into launching executables direct from the new browser.
Raff has cooked up a harmless demo of the attack in action, showing how a Google Chrome users can be lured into downloading and launching a JAR (Java Archive) file that gets executed without warning.
[ SEE: Google Chrome, the security tidbits ]
In the proof-of-concept, Raff’s code shows how a malicious hacker can use a clever social engineering lure — it requires two mouse clicks — to plant malware on Windows desktops.
The Google Chrome user-agent shows that Chrome is actually WebKit 525.13 (Safari 3.1), which is an outdated/vulnerable version of that browser.
Apple patched the carpet-bombing issue with Safari v3.1.2.
Some Google Chrome early adopters using Windows Vista are reporting that files downloaded from the Internet are automatically dropped on the desktop, setting up a scenario where a combo-attack using this unpatched IE flaw could be used in attacks. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Porky
how so? |
Chrome is the name that Mozilla gave to the GUI bits of Firefox. |
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| zoogla |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Chrome is the name that Mozilla gave to the GUI bits of Firefox. |
I just lost respect for you for knowing that. |
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| zoogla |
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(leave it to me to make a bad joke worse by triple posting) |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
I just lost respect for you for knowing that. |
Hahah shut up.
Dima beat me to it earlier in the thread anyhow, lose your respect for him. |
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| Porky |
| quote: | Originally posted by fayraree
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(leave it to me to make a bad joke worse by triple posting) |
fahad you're kind of a nerd man! |
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| DigiNut |
I'm so excited about this I could scratch my nuts vigorously.
Yet another f$cking fringe browser I have to test with and write a bunch of hacks for. Whoopie . I honestly think that Google must have been running out of for their pampered employees to do, so they just threw this at them as a pet project.
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
So apparently Google Chrome gained 1% of the web browsing market share yesterday... |
How that's somehow possible to determine within the span of one day is beyond me.
Everybody will try it out around the launch time, and stop using it soon after. Yeah, it's fast, but that's because it's missing fully 90% of the features in FF and IE. Perhaps most ironically, I see it seems to lack any type of skin support, which is exactly what FF refers to as "chrome", and I can't say I'm really thrilled with the candy-apple blue they've given. I'm already tired of it and back in FF. |
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