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Google Claims Chrome 7 Will Be 60 Times Faster
Google has boasted that the new version of its web browser, Chrome 7, will be 60 times faster than the previous version.The company released details about the Chrome 7 web browser, claiming that it will be 60 times faster than Chrome 6 and will have superior graphics performance via GPU acceleration.
Writing on the Chromium Blog, software engineer James Robinson, said: “These early numbers show up to 60x speed improvement over the current version of Google Chrome. With Google Chrome’s fast release cycles, we expect to be able to get these enhancements to users quickly and add new performance improvements over time.”
Google also released an update for its Chrome 6 browser.
The update fixes 10 security holes found in Chrome 6, one them marked as ‘critical’ by the company.
According to the company, the critical Chrome 6 vulnerability affects the Mac version of the web browser. Google said that it will release full details of the vulnerability after users have installed the latest Chrome update.
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Google Bug Plays Music For Chrome Users
A newly discovered Gmail bug plays background music for some users, when they sign-in to check their email via Chrome web browser; a YouTube video explaining Gmail’s new Priority Inbox feature is apparently responsible for the glitch.Google’s help forum is filled with complaints from Chrome users who have been hearing unwarranted background music when they sign into Gmail and one Opera user has also been experiencing the same problem.
Interestingly, the Gmail glitch has also affected users that have activated the Priority Inbox function. A Google employee wrote on Google forums that engineers were working to fix the problem.
This was followed by a Google spokesperson claiming that “This bug has been fixed for the majority of users, and should be resolved for everyone shortly.”
Expanding on the Gmail glitch, one user wrote on the forum that “Occasionally there will be a sound effect like a click, a bubble, cards shuffling, a dog growling. There is no music running on my computer. It only occurs in Google Chrome on one of my Gmail accounts, it does not occur in Firefox on anything.”
No one has yet to come with a conclusive explanation as to how it happens; whether this is linked to an unknown vulnerability remains to be seen.
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Google Brings GPU Acceleration To Chrome 7
Google has revealed its plan to shift entire load of its web browser to the Graphic Processor Unit (GPU) of the computer to ensure a faster and better browsing experience.
In a document on its developers page, the company revealed that it has decided to use GPU acceleration to enhance the speed of its Chrome web browser, especially on websites that are heavy on graphics.
“There’s been a lot of work going on to overhaul Chromium’s graphics system” and that the browser will “begin to take advantage of the GPU to speed up its entire drawing model,” Google told Conceivably Tech.
However, Google is not the only one to use GPU power to boost its applications; Adobe began to use GPU acceleration ever since it launched CS5 earlier this year.
In addition, Microsoft and Mozilla are soon expected to announce a similar feature on their forthcoming web browsers, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) and Mozilla’s Firefox 4 respectively.
One issue though is that some older computers or those with integrated graphics will not be able to use GPU acceleration fully.
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Google Adds Web Timing To Chrome 6
Google has announced that it will be including a new and improved Web Timing tool to its Chrome 6 web browser.The Web Timing feature will allow developers to determine how much time a web page actually takes to load.
Writing on the Chromium blog, the company said that the Web Timing draft specification will come with a set of metrics designed to allow developers to see the web page load time across web browsers.
Google added that developers will be able to access the feature under ‘window.webkitPerformance’.
Writing on the blog, Tony Gentilcore, software engineer with the Chrome team, wrote: “Web Timing now gives developers the ability to measure the true page load time by including the time to request, generate, and receive the HTML document.”
He added that people should not be worried if load times look slower than expected, as the tool is significantly more accurate than previous measurement systems and will affect everyone in the same way.
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Google Patches 11 Holes In Chrome
Google has released security patches to fix recently discovered flaws in its Chrome web browser.Google has released patches to fix 11 security flaws in Chrome, out of which nine flaws will be addressed within the web browser, tech news site TG Daily has reported.
According to the reports, out of the nine vulnerabilities, six have been tagged as high risk flaws, one as a medium risk flaw, and two flaws have been rated as highly critical threats.
Google has has awarded around $6,000 to company-hired hackers from Bug Bounty Hunter for discovering the nine flaws, along with $1,337 to Sergey Glazunov, a security researcher who notified the company about two highly critical flaws in its web browser under company’s paid disclosure programme.
According to Jason Kersey, a member of Google’s Chrome team, the reported vulnerabilities could cause users threats from spoofing, memory corruption and browser crashes if exploited by malicious SVG image files and MIME-type files.
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Google Opens Chrome Web Store To Developers
Google has opened its Chrome Web Store for developers to try out before its speculated launch in October.The company confirmed the reports of the Chrome Web store launch and has released details about the upcoming Web store on the official Chromium Blog.
The blog contains specifications about the platform and explains exactly how developers will be able to upload their applications on the Web store, which will then be made available for customers to purchase.
Google said that developers will now be able to try out the packaging of their applications, test them by installing them on Chrome and integrating Google’s user payment and authentication protocol with their applications.
Writing on the blog, Michael Noth, a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, wrote: “When the Chrome Web Store launches, it will replace the current gallery, featuring a completely new design for users to discover great apps, extensions and themes all in one place.”
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Google Patches Nine Chrome Vulnerabilities
Google has released a batch of security updates to patch nine security vulnerabilities on its Chrome web browser.According to Google’s official Chromium Blog, the security update patches 2 critical vulnerabilities, 6 high risk flaws and one medium rated vulnerability.
The company refused to release a complete description of the security vulnerabilities, but has said that the two critical vulnerabilities were capable of causing a crash while the browser was shutting down, as well as causing corruption of the browser memory cache.
The remaining six vulnerabilities included one which could allow hackers to imitate the Chrome address bar.
The company also announced a list of developers that were given monetary awards for reporting vulnerabilities on the Chrome web browser.
Special mention was made to a Marc Schoenefeld, who received $1,337 for reporting a Windows Kernel bug.
Google engineer Jason Kersey wrote on the blog: “Aside from the listed security bugs fixed in Chromium, we have also deployed a workaround for a critical vulnerability where the root cause lies in an external component.”
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Google Chrome Web Store May Launch In October
Google is said to be readying to launch the Chrome Web Store around October, indicating that Chrome OS-based devices will be released soon.According to games news site 1UP, Google gave a presentation to the developers attending the Game Developer Conference in Europe, in which it explained how they will be able to submit applications for the platform.
Google is offering the Web Store code to developers, indicating that Chrome OS devices will be launched in the near future.
The presentation, given by Google’s Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff, pitched Chrome as an emerging in-browser gaming platform and highlighted the benefits of a web store.
They explained about the tools the developers will be provided in order to develop games for the browser.
Google said that it will be charging only a 5 per cent processing fee from developers that post their applications and games on the Web Store. Traditionally, the store owner charges 30 per cent for sales from developers.
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Google Chrome Web Store May Launch In October
Google is said to be readying to launch the Chrome Web Store around October, indicating that Chrome OS-based devices will be released soon.
According to games news site 1UP, Google gave a presentation to the developers attending the Game Developer Conference in Europe, in which it explained how they will be able to submit applications for the platform.
Google is offering the Web Store code to developers, indicating that Chrome OS devices will be launched in the near future.
The presentation, given by Google’s Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff, pitched Chrome as an emerging in-browser gaming platform and highlighted the benefits of a web store.
They explained about the tools the developers will be provided in order to develop games for the browser.
Google said that it will be charging only a 5 per cent processing fee from developers that post their applications and games on the Web Store. Traditionally, the store owner charges 30 per cent for sales from developers.
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Google Launches Chrome To Phone App
Google has launched a new application which allows users to send links and text snippets from their Chrome desktop browser to their Android handsets in an instant.Tech news site CNET explains that the Chrome to Phone application from Google requires two installations and a Google account in order to work. Users’ smartphones must also be run on the Android 2.2 operating system.
First users would have to install the Chrome Extension for their browser and then download application from the Android Market to their phone.
Google does not provide a QR code or a direct link to the Android application, meaning that users would have to look for it manually.
Google has also released a Firefox add-on, Fox to Phone, which offers similar functionality.
When the application is downloaded onto the phones, it first gives users a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the app. The application then links the Chrome to Phone Google account with the Chrome Extension account.
Users can configure the application to open the links directly or notify them when they receive a new link.
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