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Google Chrome Developers On Browser Security

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the never-ending-war-of-escalation dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Developers of Google's Chrome browser have spoken up in an article describing their approach to keeping the browser secure, focusing on minimizing the frequency, duration, and severity of exposure. One tool Chrome uses is a recently open-sourced update distribution application called 'Omaha.' 'Omaha automatically checks for software updates every five hours. When a new update is available, a fraction of clients are told about it, based on a probability set by the team. This probability lets the team verify the quality of the release before informing all clients.'"

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  1. Re:Beta testers by siloko · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well Google is a synonym for Beta so no surprise here then . . . well actually the surprise is that they are restricting the pleasure of betaness to a selected few rather than their usual approach of using the great unwashed duped into the 'not evil' mantra . . .

  2. Russian Roulette Anyone? by n00btastic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought Google's motto was 'Be Not Evil'?

  3. Re:Beta testers by BikeHelmet · · Score: 0, Troll

    I absolutely agree with you. How many times has Microsoft released a patch, only to take it down because it causes severe stability problems or breaks something?

    Hint: Lots. Probably at least twice per year, for the last few years.

    I agree, that this is way better.