Very interesting! Google Chrome is blocked in some countries (Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan) :
Google says:
“In accordance with US export controls and economic sanctions regulations, we are unable to permit the download of Google Chrome in Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Iran, and Sudan.”
Tags: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria
Think twice before switching browsers
1. It’s only in its first beta
2. You won’t have any add-ons
Add-ons are a huge draw for Firefox fans, and none of these are available in Chrome yet. Google does intend to create an API for such extensions, but for now you’ll have to make do without your AdBlocks, Better Gmails, and BugMeNots, or you’ll have to switch between browsers to use the add-ons you want when you want them.
3. You can’t synchronise
One big plus of Firefox is its ability to synchronise across multiple computers using Mozilla’s Weave option. This arrangement allows you to keep your home browser, your laptop browser and your work browser looking identical at all times and once you get used to that level of synchronisation, it’s hard to give up. Chrome doesn’t yet have that capability.
4. You may draw the short stick on standards
5. You’re giving advertisers extra ammo
6. The drop-down bar is dropped
7. You lose some history power
Aditya K Sood from the EvilFingers community, which disclosed the first Chrome DoS vulnerability at the beginning of the month, has released a proof of concept demonstrating a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability affecting Google’s Chrome versions Chrome/0.2.149.30 and Chrome/0.2.149.29 :
“The Google chrome browser is vulnerable to memory exhaustion based denial of service which can be triggered remotely.The vulnerability triggers when Carriage Return(\r\n\r\n) is passed as an argument to window.open() function. It makes the Google Chrome to generate number of windows at the same time thereby leading to memory exhaustion. The behavior can be easily checked by looking at the task manager as with no time the memory usage rises high. The problem lies in the handling of object and its value returned by the javascript function. Once it is triggered the pop ups are started generating. The Google Chrome browser generate object windows continuously there by affecting memory of the resultant system. Probably it can be crashed within no time. User interaction is required in this.”
More details on: zdnet.com
Between hurricanes and hericanes, you could easily have missed the technology news. Released yesterday in public beta, Google Chrome is a standards-compliant web browser created to erode Microsoft’s browser dominance (i.e. to boost Google’s web dominance) while also rethinking what a browser is and does in the age of web apps and Google’s YouTube.
The new browser is based on Webkit, the advanced-standards-compliant, open source browser engine that powers Apple’s Safari for Mac and PC, but Chrome currently runs only in Windows. You figure that out.
Here are the new browser’s terms of service.
And here’s an important early bug report from Jeremy Jarratt: Google Chrome wrongly displays alternate styles as if active, thus “breaking” websites that use them. (Here’s more about alternate style sheets, from Paul Sowden’s groundbreaking 2001 A List Apart article.)
read the article on www.zeldman.com
Tags: browser, bug, bugs, chrome, google, googlechrome, webbrowsers
Very intresting John Sanders shows you how the Web giant Google hopes to shake up the Internet.
New! Google Chrome the name is Chromifox the game is FireFox.
The original description:
A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Say hello to Chromifox, a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox 3 on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome web browser.
The plugin link is:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8782
Install to firefox direct link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/file/37478/chromifox-1.0-fx.jar
Tags: FireFox, Google Chrome, theme
Google Chrome (web browser) has just hit the world. Google Chrome backup is a small tool to backup and restore Google Chrome profile. The profile holds personal data like history, bookmarks, etc. Everything is done with one click.
How to use it
1. You need Google Chrome installed in order for this tool to work. It supports 0.2.149.27 version of Google Chrome.
2. Select a profile from drop down list and manipulate profile by selecting options on “Profile Tools” menu.
3. To backup current profile click on the profile, select “Backup Profile” and select a backup path. A new file which holds your profile is created.
4. To restore the old profile, click on the profile, select “Restore Profile” and navigate to *.gcb file you want to restore. Selected profile will be deleted and restored from the backup file.
5. Create new Google Chrome profiles and create shortcut on desktop, with switches that are supported.
6. Delete Google Chrome profiles.
7. Add Google Chrome profiles to Google Chrome backup tool.
8. Tray icon for fast access and fast run any profile.
9. Select option to run Google Chrome Backup at Windows Startup.
Here is a short movie with installation help of the new Google Chrome browser (sound included)
The announcement of the lunch of Google Chrome made in early September can be considered the most important event of the year not only because Google tends to revolutionize the internet browsing experience but also because it comes as a strong competitor for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Some rumors in the web world say that Chrome was designed to be Explorer’s killer and by lunching Chrome, Google declared war to Microsoft. They say that this new browser by Google is only the first step of an operating systems revolution. In the future we’ll may be using an application of this kind for all our computer related work. So, Chrome is Explorer’s killer only on short term. In a long shot Google plans to take down Microsoft’s top product, Windows.
Beside this rumors Chrome made a lot of people curious. These people immediately wanted to try out Google Chrome. They’ve downloaded it from google.com and off to a new web browsing experience. The first reaction: stunned by the user friendly interface, simple and efficient. When these curios internet users began surfing they were even more impressed of what Chrome can do. They’ve experienced a much safer, faster and reliable web surfing session.
Generally the online world is happy with what Google managed to achieve with its Chrome. Even though Chrome is available for all users, Google admits that his web browser is far from being completed. There is still a lot of work to be done and Google is open to any suggestions for improvement coming from users.
www.TheChromeBlog.NET
A new article made by Roger Grimes for InfoWorld dot com, Why I never trust new browsers and Chrome is included!
If you want to read the article click here
Google’s Chrome is a worthy option in the browser battles, but far from perfect from a security perspective
Google released its new, open source, browser, called Chrome, a few days ago. You can download it from Google’s home page. It’s a pretty, clean, fast browser. [As a Microsoft employee], I welcome the competition. Competition is always good and improves everyone’s product.
As a security guy, I wondered how well Chrome would prevail against malicious misuse. One of Chrome’s benefits is that it is relatively smaller, code-wise, than its nearest competitors (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and so on). Less code could mean less potential exploit vectors and bugs. It will be a year or so before we can see how well it fares overall, but it isn’t off to a stellar start.
[ Check out InfoWorld's Special Report for all the news, reviews, and commentary on Google's open source Chrome browser. ]
There were at least three announced Chrome exploits in the first two days. The first exploit showed that Chrome could be tricked into silently downloading executables to local user locations. After this exploit was announced came the expected rash of novice defenses stating that just because something is downloaded to a user’s desktop doesn’t mean it is executed, and therefore the user is safe. Yeah, right. Apparently you’re new to computing and haven’t learned that stage one of the exploit (the hardest part) is always followed by stage two, where someone else teaches us how to silently execute that code ..
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