Google Chrome Browser

[Flinty]

Just wondering what your thoughts are on the new Google Chrome Web Browser?

I really like how it uses all of your workspace and mixes the tabs with the close/maximise bar at the top.

It's off to a good a start and is looking very promising.

Google Chrome - Download a new browser

[Timmy_theHat]

My cousin sent me a link to this earlier, and so far it looks like it blows all other browsers out of the water in terms of speed. Plus each separate tab is, from what I understand, its own process, so if one crashes they all wont. I think that for now Ill stick with firefox though.

[Flinty]

Yeah it has its own processes for each tab. You can even see them in Task Manager.

[TheGnome]

Speed is really nice, but I miss my plugins. Maybe once more plugins come out, I may make the switch.

[Flinty]

YIKESERZ!

From the License Agreement for using Chrome.

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

[ike44]

wow... looks like i wont be getting it.

[Ashen]

spiez!!!!

EDIT: DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome, crashes with all tabs | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome, crashes with all tabs

Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google’s Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs. According to Narang’s advisory :

“An issue exists in how chrome behaves with undefined-handlers in chrome.dll version 0.2.149.27. A crash can result without user interaction. When a user is made to visit a malicious link, which has an undefined handler followed by a ’special’ character, the chrome crashes with a Google Chrome message window “Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now?”. It crashes on “int 3″ at 0×01002FF3 as an exception/trap, followed by “POP EBP” instruction when pointed out by the EIP register at 0×01002FF4.”

Nothing’s impossible the impossible just takes a little longer.
Also see: Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw

• Security-wise, Google Chrome is (potentially very) Good
• See also: All ZDNet Resources for Chrome

Whenever a new product is in its introduction stage, it would logically attract a lot of attention from security researchers trying to a make a point that it’s vulnerable, and that some of the vulnerabilities are pretty trivial. For instance, yesterday David Maynor from Errata Security pin pointed possibilities for exploitation in Google’s Chrome, saying that :

“Google just released Chrome, their own web browser. We decided to run it through Looking Glass and it doesn’t look half bad. They at least have ASLR enabled on a few of their libraries, no NX though. Chrome is not as bad as some apps I have seen but that is not saying much.”

What’s important though, is whether or not the browser release would also start attracting the attention of cybercriminals. Being anything but old-fashioned, they too do their homework and take into consideration the market share of a particular browser in order to increase the impact of exploiting it. Consequently, for the time being the level of exploitability of Google’s Chrome is right after Opera’s from the perspective of the malicious attacker taking into consideration Chrome’s non-existent market share.
Would the level of exploitability change? In the fist quarter of 2009, Google would presumably release stats of the number of people who downloaded Chrome, demonstrating nothing else but the introduction stage of their browser. The question is, how many of those who downloaded it would actually stick with it, and would companies embrace it if it does gets popular enough, potentially increasing the exploitability level of any upcoming vulnerabilities?
Considering the fact that according to public statistics of usage share of web browsers, IE6 users are just as many as IE7 ones, converting from Firefox or IE to Google’s Chrome is not going to happen overnight.

[ike44]

i still like ff better though... i love how you can add apps (like automatically add fmt=18 to youtube videos) to make browsing the internet easier.

[bassie999]

[Ashen]

FF ftw!!!

[TheGnome]

Originally Posted by Flinty

YIKESERZ!

From the License Agreement for using Chrome.

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Turns out that was a "mistake" and they are changing the License Agreement.

[Ashen]

eh, ha ha, uuuuh mistake? Suuuuure . . .

[Fingulfin]

LOL.

As much as I love Google and their services, I am staying away from Chrome. What can I say, I'm a Firefox FanBoi *shrugs*

[Kaninen]

I know this is probably the wrong place to direct my attention, but the name really sucks.

[n00bf00d]

As much as I hate to say it, I find myself in agreement with Kaninen (<3).
Also I use a Mac, so when Google wants to get serious I'm there.