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Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer

Posted by timothy on from the next-please-block-cw-popups dept.

CWmike writes "Google on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome 8 (stable), and debuted Google's built-in PDF viewer, an alternative to the bug-plagued Adobe Reader plug-in, and included support for the still-not-launched Chrome Web Store. The 13 flaws fixed in Chrome 8.0.552.215 are in a variety of components, including the browser's history, its video indexing and the display of SVG (scalable vector graphics) animations. Next up: Adobe and Google have collaborated to put the Flash Player plug-in inside a sandbox within the dev build of Chrome, an effort by the two companies to better protect users from attacks."

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  1. Damn. It's all downhill for now. by CFD339 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You start with something small and fast.

    Soon you're all about embedding this and that and everything else. Now you're all about bloat.

    See, I use foxit. I like foxit. I don't install the embedded reader because I don't like it to be embedded. That's my choice. You may not agree, but that's cool because that's what choice means.

    Now, Chrome embeds its own viewer. There goes my choice. There goes the lightweight browser. Hello monoculture software. Hello exploits.

    bah.

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  2. Re:Because I like being on cutting edge... by asserted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It appears that Chrome is using Foxit library.
    Can't verify it because the codereview link they provide doesn't work anymore.