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Google on Tuesday released Chrome 19, patched 20 vulnerabilities inthe browser and doled out $16,500 in bug bounties and rewards toindependent researchers. Chrome 19's most obvious change is the new support for tabsynchronization. Like the already available bookmark, password, appand extension sync, open tabs will now be kept in step on allcopies of Chrome, on multiple platforms, including Android, thatare linked to the same Google account. Although Chrome 19 supports the feature, synchronization will notbe enabled for all users immediately, said Raz Mathias, a Chromesoftware engineer.
"The tab sync feature will be rolled outgradually over the coming weeks, Mathias said in a Tuesday blog . Chrome is not breaking ground here. Mozilla has had tab sync since Firefox 4, which shipped more than ayear ago, and third-party extensions, like Xmarks , sync open tabs across browsers from different vendors. Chrome was last upgraded seven weeks ago.
Google releases a new "stable" version about every six to eight weeks andhas been on a slightly slower schedule recently than rivalMozilla's strict every-six-weeks tempo. Chrome 19 also includes patches for 20 security vulnerabilities: Eight were ranked "high," Google'ssecond-most-serious threat rating, seven were marked "medium," andfive were labeled "low." Seven of the vulnerabilities were described in Google's briefadvisory as "out-of-bounds" read or write flaws, a category ofmemory bugs where a function does not check that input doesn'texceed allocated buffers. Google paid $7,500 in bounties to six researchers for reportingnine vulnerabilities, including two that were not strictly withinChrome. One of the latter was a bug in a Linux Nvidia driver, for example. The 11 remaining bugs were uncovered by Google's own security teamor were credited to Microsoft , or were not significant enough to rate a bounty.
Google also handed over an additional $9,000 to half-a-dozenresearchers, some of whom collected other cash rewards, forreporting bugs that were patched by Google earlier in Chrome 19'sdevelopment process. So far this year, Google has paid more than $230,000 to outsideresearchers for submitting Chrome vulnerabilities. More than halfof that -- $120,000 -- was laid out in March at "Pwnium," a Google-sponsored hacking challenge. Tuesday's update was the 13th this year that patched one or morevulnerabilities.
According to the latest figures from metric company NetApplications, Chrome has a usage share of about 19%. Irishmeasurement firm StatCounter, on the other hand, pegged Chrome'sshare for April at 31%. Chrome 19 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Google'swebsite. The browser is updated automatically through its silentservice.
Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsersand general technology breaking news for Computerworld. FollowGregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His email address is . See more by Gregg Keizer on Computerworld.com.
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