Showing posts with label Chrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chrome. Show all posts
Chrome and Opera with new betas
Google has released a new beta version of its browser: Chrome 23 beta brings the track support the possibility to split HTML-5 video into chapters, add descriptions, metadata and subtitles.
Google will continue with two new APIs developers interesting tools at hand: The Media Source API detects the speed of the Internet connection and fits abzuspielendes video for a smooth frame accordingly. With the Peer Connection API allows audio and video streams without additional plugins from the browser to build in order to perform, for example, audio or video calls.
Opera 12.10 beta version puts the focus on his browser Apple users. So now even retina displays and operating system features of Mac OS X Lion Mountain as the Notification Center or the parts function are supported.
For users of Windows 7 or 8 brings Opera with an improved touch operation. Moreover, now Google's SPDY protocol network is supported, which should be faster and more secure than HTTP - it encrypted by default with SSL.
New interfaces like the Context Menu API with which you can add context menu extensions facilitate the work of developers.
Google closes vulnerabilities in Chrome for Android
In the recently published version 18.0.1025308 its Chrome browser for Google Android 7 includes classified as moderate vulnerabilities. For each of the explorers got a reward of $ 500. The blog post describes the error only in general, and the bug database reveals nothing about her.
Two vulnerabilities affect cross-application scripting (UXSS), so use of weaknesses in the browser for a XSS attack (XSS). Appropriate URLs with the scheme "file" could apparently due to two further errors authentication data (credentials) to share, and a bug granted JavaScript code to access Android APIs.
UXSS a gap had been recently discovered in the desktop version of Chrome. In March 2012, Google paid the Pwnage participants Sergey Glazunov for a record bonus of $ 60,000.
In another blog post, the Chrome developers say that they have improved the security of the sandbox, and the browser is better protected against malicious web applications. The new function using the "technology of the user ID-isolation" and will be automatically enabled for users of Android 4.1. How does it work exactly, and whether they will be retrofitted to older versions of Android, is not given in the post.
Security update for Chrome and Opera
In the free version 21.0.1180.89 Chrome browser eight security holes were closed, three of which are with the severity in "high." The discoverers of the bugs have been rewarded with a total of 3500 dollars.
The three most serious Chrome bugs affect run-ins (CVE-2012-2866), a buffer problem when loading URLs (CVE-2012-2869) and an incorrect type conversion in connection with XSL (CVE-2012-2871). There were no other error in the automatic line break (CVE-2012-2865), in cooperation between XMLHttpRequest and Web Workers (CVE-2012-2868) and the dialogue to warn of invalid SSL certificates (CVE-2012 2872).
In Opera 12.02, the developers have fixed a bug where the dialogue was sometimes not fully visible. This user would hold buttons on the website belonging to the dialogue and can possibly cause undesirable actions. Both Chrome and Opera update itself automatically.
Google donated Chrome for iOS "Social Sharing"
Google has released an update for the iOS version of its browser Chrome online. The update with the version 21.0.1180.77 brings mainly bug fixes, but Google is not running closer. So shall the tool to be more stable and secure and includes "many bug fixes to user feedback."
Only official new feature, new "social sharing" arrangements. Thus, referring sites can now share on tap via email, Google+, Facebook or Twitter.
Chrome for iOS has enjoyed since the end of June show a success story: The market share rose quickly and the app was several weeks at number 1 in the ranking of the free programs Apple's online store. The browser is free and runs iOS 4.3. It is offered as a universal touch version for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available in numerous languages. Chrome is based on Apple's Webkit internal routines to display content, Apple does not allow alternative browser engines.
More Security for Flash in Chrome on Windows
What Google's developers have already built in version 20 of its Chrome browser for Linux, comes in the recent Chrome 21 and Windows users to Good: A better shielding of the Flash plug-in designed to reduce the crashes by 20 percent. At the same time making the graphics processing technology for playing Flash animations accessible.
As a contribution in the Chromium blog explains, Chrome 21 also replaces the previous Windows for NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) by Pepper Plug-in API (PPAPI). This would give all first time users of Windows XP has a Flash player that runs in a sandbox. This is particularly important because on this operating system security features such as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) were missing.
Coming soon to get the Mac version of Chrome Flash Player in a PPAPI version. To ensure that all supported platforms were converted to the new technology.
As a contribution in the Chromium blog explains, Chrome 21 also replaces the previous Windows for NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) by Pepper Plug-in API (PPAPI). This would give all first time users of Windows XP has a Flash player that runs in a sandbox. This is particularly important because on this operating system security features such as ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) were missing.
Coming soon to get the Mac version of Chrome Flash Player in a PPAPI version. To ensure that all supported platforms were converted to the new technology.
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