Google Chrome 5.0.375.55

Google Chrome 5.0.375.55 is uitgebracht. De vijfde stabiele versie van Googles browser is nu ook voor Mac OS X en Linux uit het bèta-stadium gehaald. Lees hier een overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de vijf versies van Google Chrome.

Google Chrome 5 kent een aantal nieuwe eigenschappen: zo kunnen behalve bladwijzers nu ook browser voorkeuren worden gesynchroniseerd. Extensies werken in de incognito modus en veel HTML5-eigenschappen zijn toegevoegd, zoals geolocatie en 'drag and drop' van bestanden.

In Chrome 5 zijn ten slotte zes beveiligingslekken gedicht. Vier van gemiddelde ernst en twee kritiek. Google Chrome update automatisch op de achtergrond als u de browser opstart. Daar hoeft u niks voor te doen.

Release notes:

Today’s stable release also comes with a host of new features. You’ll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across multiple computers, but also browser preferences -- including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings. Meanwhile, for avid extensions users, you can enable each extension to work in incognito mode through the extensions manager.

Our stable release also incorporates HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. For a taste of HTML5’s powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps. We’ve also given Chrome’s bookmark manager a facelift with HTML5.

• [7713] Medium Canonicalize URLs closer to the Safe Browsing specification. Credit to Brett Wilson of the Chromium development community.
• [16535] High Possible URL bar spoofing via unload event handlers. Credit to Michal Zalewski, Google Security Team.
• [30079] Medium Memory error in Safe Browsing interaction. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (SkyLined).
• [39740] Medium Bypass of whitelist-mode plugin blocker. Credit to Darin Fisher of the Chromium development community.
• [41469] Medium Memory error with drag + drop. Credit to kuzzcc.
• [42228] High Incorrect execution of Javascript in the extension context. Credit to Andrey Kosyakov of the Chromium development community.

In addition, we fixed a range of minor issues such as non-exploitable crashes, hangs and other annoyances.