German Government Endorses Chrome As Most Secure Browser

New submitter beta2 writes "Several articles are noting that the German IT security agency BSI is endorsing Google Chrome browser: 'BSI ticked off Chrome's anti-exploit sandbox technology, which isolates the browser from the operating system and the rest of the computer; its silent update mechanism and Chrome's habit of bundling Adobe Flash, as its reasons for the recommendation. ... BSI also recommended Adobe Reader X — the version of the popular PDF reader that, like Chrome, relies on a sandbox to protect users from exploits — and urged citizens to use Windows' Auto Update feature to keep their PCs abreast of all OS security fixes. To update applications, BSI gave a nod to Secunia's Personal Software Inspector, a free utility that scan a computer for outdated software and point users to appropriate downloads.'"

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[AlienIntelligence]

But this newest update they sent... is blowing my CPU util of the charts...

I can open just Gmail, come back 8hrs later (ie, going to sleep), come
back and my laptop fan is roaring like a jet taking off, utilization is well
above 50%, with kernel involved and both cores.

I don't know if it's new Chrome update interacting with SWF or something
that they (Google) did to their pages. When I run Chrome taskman, it
shows the tabs that have Google apps on them, just smoking the CPU.

This isn't flamebait or trolling... it's a fact. I've made two bug reports,
but it seems that there isn't a "me too" anywhere.

Hoping maybe one of the geek peers here might have a similar issue?

-AI