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Chrome 38 Released: New APIs and 159 Security Fixes

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes: In addition to updating Chrome for iOS, Google has released Chrome 38 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. While Chrome 38 beta brought a slew of new features, the stable release is pretty much just a massive security update. This means that, with Chrome 38, Google isn't adding any features to the stable channel (full changelog). That said, Chrome 38 does address 159 security issues (including 113 "relatively minor ones"). Google spent $75,633.70 in bug bounties for this release.

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  1. No new features after beta? by Stewie241 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a company released a beta version, and then a stable version that didn't add features to the beta? Wow. That really *is* news for nerds!

  2. Re:Chromium by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's because for many people software isn't a political act.

    The vast majority of people are not running around saying "viva la revolucion" about 'free' software.

    They just want stuff which works.

    Has it occurred to you that they simply don't care?

    Even Mozilla backed down on blocking 3rd party cookies, and it is open source.

    And then I'm hard pressed to think of an open source browser which actually respects our privacy, doesn't have ads, and which runs on multiple platforms.

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  3. Netflix without Silverlight? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does Chrome now support Netflix with HTML5 rather than Silverlight? That would be helpful! No more Silverlight/Flash exploits creating Tinba infestations...

    http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/14/08/09/1854206/netflix-now-works-on-linux-with-html5-drm-video-support-in-chrome