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Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 10
An anonymous reader writes "Google has released version 10 of the Chrome Browser. The update brings hundreds of bug fixes as well as many features that have been available on the Chrome beta and dev channels to users interested in using Chrome's latest builds. Chrome 10 also addresses 23 security vulnerabilities in the WebKit-based browser (easily more than Google has ever fixed before): 15 rated as High, three rated as Medium, and five rated as Low."
Can I finally use RAM for the browser's cache like Firefox to avoid frequent hits on my SSD?
Flash is sandboxed in the most recent version, which should lead to better protection against exploits against Flash. And for a while now Flash should only crash itself if it crashes; not the whole browser.
Version 10! Oh man, and here I am feeling like a chump with Firefox 4. I'm waaaay behind on my Internet power level compared to Chrome. I gotta switch before I completely miss out on the Internet awesomeness provided by the much newer Chrome 10! It's 6 additional levels of awesomeness people!
// For those who lack the ability to detect sarcasm - mod me down and I shall become more powerful than you can imagine.
Now, I hope the next one on their list to add Sandboxing support to is Java. Until then, Java will remain disabled in Chrome.
Then I'll stick with Firefox, it might get a bit bloated but I have my fingers crossed as hardware improves and they end up making the multithreaded code, it'll at least remain the speed it is now, while retaining good functionality for me.
Yes, I know they are copying the _ridiculous_ tabs on the top UI from chrome, it can be disabled in the default options though, no addon required to do so.
Need my status bar down the bottom too.
FireFox 3 needs only one thing for me.
More speed, just more and more speed - that's it. It's otherwise, EXACTLY what I want in a browser.
But does the back button work properly? It has been broken for ages on certain sites...
out on the net today
i saw a dead head sticker on a cadillac
a voice inside my head said don't look back
you can never look back
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Browser-based Java programs can't modify the host computer.
My Windows Vista and XP internet explorer would have to disagree on this one.
I've twice seen the java box running before realizing exactly how Opera and IE have let spyware thru.
I really don't have a daily reason for java, but last I remember it is like 60+MBs to reinstall, and the download licensing you "sign" with Sun Microsystems is annoying to get an offline installer exe, so I stopped uninstalling it for those rainy days when a corporate site requires java.
If flash would just crash then sandboxing would at least solve that. But instead it happily gobbles your CPU with runaway rendering crap. The only limit on it now is it is single threaded. Not looking forward to multi-cpu flash.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
No, it allows you to run 'restricted' native libraries using exposed APIs, (re)compiled for NaCl, which are then sandboxed.
Now how about we get you fellas a good ass bookmarks manager, huh?
You're having problems managing your ass bookmarks, are you?
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Not true anymore. Adblock Plus for Chrome now is virtually indistinguishable from Firefox's and has been for some time.
It doesn't need addons to be good at web programming/debugging. The built in inspector and javascript debugger is better than firebug.