Google Releases Chrome 12 188
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from the shiny-and-new dept.
An anonymous reader noted something that will be of interest to the 26% of Slashdot readers who have switched to Chrome: "Google has released Chrome 12, adding plenty of new features to its minimalist web browser and fixing a number of security vulnerabilities. Google software engineer Adrienne Walker said of the safe browsing mode, 'We've carefully designed this feature so that malicious content can be detected without Chrome or Google ever having to know about the URLs you visit or the files you download.'"
Re:Version numbers (Score:4, Interesting)
I have Chromium 12.0.742.91 on my computer. Have they really made hundreds of beta releases?
Did they add noscript yet? (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't understand how geeks could consider using the web without noscript. I shudder at the thought of letting Slashdot actually run all the shitty scripting stuff they want to run.
Re:Guys: I need to know diff. between Chromium (Score:2, Interesting)
This should be useful:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoogleChrome
Basically, tinhat types believe Google can track all of its Chrome users. In the beginning, there were a couple of things that were questionable - for example, giving each install a unique ID - but more than likely this was just for statistical records about Chrome uptake. People complained, Google responded... all user metrics can be turned on and off by the user.
So, Chrome is now Chromium, with some more features rolled in by Google, and vetted by the Google team. It's good to keep Chromium around, to keep Google honest and keep source for an alternative out in the open (and I guess to satisfy FOSS zealots), but if you're not concerned with such things, Chrome is IMO the better choice.
Is 24% enough for us to get a UI fix, Slashdot? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's getting a bit old that any click within a comment, including within the textarea while I'm trying to reply, gets interpreted as clicking on the "Parent" link, thus requiring me to open the entire thread all the way to the root.