Google Chrome

Google Chrome, or Chrome, is a web browser software that tries to compete with major players, such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and even the Opera web browser. It is available for the Linux, Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems. But Google Chrome is more than a web browser, as it combines sophisticated open source technology, borrowed from the Chromium application, into a minimal design, all in order to help users surf the web much faster, a lot easier, and safer than ever before.

Features at a glance

A unique functionality of the Google Chrome application is its ability to search the web directly from the address bar. Just type one or more words in the address bar and immediately get suggestions for popular web pages. The application displays thumbnails of your top websites on the new tab page, a function that is popularly called Speed Dial. This functionality is also available on other similar products, and it allows you to easily access your favorite web pages instantly, with lightning speed, from any new tab.

Comes with Private browsing mode

Private browsing is also a strong point of the Google Chrome web browser, enabling users to surf the Internet in an incognito window, when they don't want to save their browsing history, or if they're hiding from NSA (National Security Agency). Just like Mozilla Firefox, the Chrome web browser includes a handy cloud service, which allows you to safely and securely sync all of your passwords, browsing history, bookmarks, apps, extensions, autofill, themes, and opened tabs across multiple devices.

Will never replace Mozilla Firefox

Because we heard such good things about it, we've tried a little experiment with the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox products. We wanted to replace the powerful Mozilla Firefox web browser that we use on many computers here at Softoware, with Google Chrome. Surprisingly, the Chrome browser proved to be a poor product for our needs, especially because it misses some important extensions that are currently available only on the Mozilla Firefox application, such as Clippings, Copy Plain Text, or InFormEnter.

You should try Mozilla Firefox

These days, you can't avoid Google's web services. Whether you sign up for Gmail and Google+, or you just want to use its quite powerful office tools (yes, this short review is written in Google Documents), you may find you end up asking yourself, "Why not use Chrome?". The answer is simple, use Chrome if you just want to use Google's powerful services and nothing more. But if you want a serious web browser, you should try Mozilla Firefox.

What is new in this release:

• [$3000][770452] High CVE-2017-15396: Stack overflow in V8. Reported by Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab on 2017-09-30

What is new in version 63.0.3239.132 / 64.0.3282.99 Beta / 65.0.3322.3 De:

• [$3000][770452] High CVE-2017-15396: Stack overflow in V8. Reported by Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab on 2017-09-30

What is new in version 62.0.3202.94 / 63.0.3239.70 Beta / 64.0.3278.0 Dev:

• [$3000][770452] High CVE-2017-15396: Stack overflow in V8. Reported by Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab on 2017-09-30

What is new in version 62.0.3202.94 / 63.0.3239.52 Beta / 64.0.3269.3 Dev:

• [$3000][770452] High CVE-2017-15396: Stack overflow in V8. Reported by Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab on 2017-09-30

What is new in version 60.0.3112.78 / 61.0.3163.39 Beta / 62.0.3178.0 Dev:

• In order to improve stability, performance, and security, users who are currently on 32-bit version of Chrome, and 64-bit Windows with 4GB or more of memory and auto-update enabled will be automatically migrated to 64-bit Chrome during this update. 32-bit Chrome will still be available via the Chrome download page.
• Security Fixes and Rewards:
• [$500][679306] High CVE-2017-5068: Race condition in WebRTC. Credit to Philipp Hancke

What is new in version 59.0.3071.115 / 60.0.3112.50 Beta / 61.0.3141.7 De:

• In order to improve stability, performance, and security, users who are currently on 32-bit version of Chrome, and 64-bit Windows with 4GB or more of memory and auto-update enabled will be automatically migrated to 64-bit Chrome during this update. 32-bit Chrome will still be available via the Chrome download page.
• Security Fixes and Rewards:
• [$500][679306] High CVE-2017-5068: Race condition in WebRTC. Credit to Philipp Hancke

What is new in version 59.0.3071.104 / 60.0.3112.32 Beta / 61.0.3128.0 De:

• In order to improve stability, performance, and security, users who are currently on 32-bit version of Chrome, and 64-bit Windows with 4GB or more of memory and auto-update enabled will be automatically migrated to 64-bit Chrome during this update. 32-bit Chrome will still be available via the Chrome download page.
• Security Fixes and Rewards:
• [$500][679306] High CVE-2017-5068: Race condition in WebRTC. Credit to Philipp Hancke

What is new in version 58.0.3029.81 / 59.0.3071.29 Beta / 60.0.3080.5 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 58.0.3029.81 / 59.0.3071.15 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 57.0.2987.98 / 58.0.3029.6 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 56.0.2924.87 / 57.0.2987.88 Beta / 58.0.3029.6 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 56.0.2924.87 / 57.0.2987.37 Beta / 58.0.3004.3 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 55.0.2883.87 / 56.0.2924.51 Beta / 57.0.2970.0 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 54.0.2840.90 / 55.0.2883.59 Beta / 56.0.2924.10 De:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 54.0.2840.90 / 55.0.2883.44 Beta / 56.0.2914.3 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 54.0.2840.71 / 55.0.2883.21 Beta:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 53.0.2785.89 / 54.0.2840.8 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 52.0.2743.82 / 53.0.2785.23 Dev:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 51.0.2704.106 / 52.0.2743.75 Beta / 53.0.2785.8 De:

• This update includes 3 security fixes.

What is new in version 51.0.2704.103 / 52.0.2743.41 Beta / 53.0.2767.4 De:

What is new in version 50.0.2661.86 / 51.0.2704.22 Beta / 52.0.2716.19 De:

• High CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8. Credit to Wen Xu from Tencent KeenLab.
• High CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation. Credit to anonymous.
• High CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions. Credit to anonymous.
• High CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE. Credit to lokihardt working with HP's Zero Day Initiative / Pwn2Own.
• As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
• CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
• Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33).

What is new in version 50.0.2661.86 / 51.0.2704.22 Beta:

• High CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8. Credit to Wen Xu from Tencent KeenLab.
• High CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation. Credit to anonymous.
• High CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions. Credit to anonymous.
• High CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE. Credit to lokihardt working with HP's Zero Day Initiative / Pwn2Own.
• As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
• CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
• Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33).

What is new in version 50.0.2661.75 / 51.0.2704.7 Dev:

• High CVE-2016-1646: Out-of-bounds read in V8. Credit to Wen Xu from Tencent KeenLab.
• High CVE-2016-1647: Use-after-free in Navigation. Credit to anonymous.
• High CVE-2016-1648: Use-after-free in Extensions. Credit to anonymous.
• High CVE-2016-1649: Buffer overflow in libANGLE. Credit to lokihardt working with HP's Zero Day Initiative / Pwn2Own.
• As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
• CVE-2016-1650: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
• Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 4.9 branch (currently 4.9.385.33).

What is new in version 49.0.2623.87 / 50.0.2661.26 Beta:

• High CVE-2016-1643: Type confusion in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• High CVE-2016-1644: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• High CVE-2016-1645: Out-of-bounds write in PDFium. Credit to anonymous working with HP's Zero Day Initiative.

What is new in version 49.0.2623.87 / 50.0.2661.18 Dev:

• High CVE-2016-1643: Type confusion in Blink. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• High CVE-2016-1644: Use-after-free in Blink. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• High CVE-2016-1645: Out-of-bounds write in PDFium. Credit to anonymous working with HP's Zero Day Initiative.

What is new in version 48.0.2564.103 / 49.0.2623.39 Beta / 50.0.2638.0 De:

• Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing.

What is new in version 47.0.2526.80 / 48.0.2564.23 Beta:

• This release contains an update to Adobe Flash Player (20.0.0.228) and security fixes.

What is new in version 43.0.2357.134 / 44.0.2403.89 Beta / 45.0.2454.7 De:

• This release contains a critical update to Adobe Flash Player (18.0.0.209) and a fix for a full screen casting issue.

What is new in version 40.0.2214.111 / 41.0.2272.53 Beta / 42.0.2300.2 De:

• This update includes 11 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information:
• [447906] High CVE-2015-1209: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to Maksymillian Motyl.
• [453979] High CVE-2015-1210: Cross-origin-bypass in V8 bindings. Credit to anonymous.
• [453982] High CVE-2015-1211: Privilege escalation using service workers. Credit to anonymous.
• As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
• [455225] CVE-2015-1212: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

What is new in version 41.0.2272.16 Beta:

• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 40.0.2214.91:

• Updated Chrome app info dialog for Windows and Linux.
• A new clock behind/ahead error message.
• Security Fixes and Rewards:
• This update includes 62 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were contributed by external researchers. Please see the Chromium security page for more information.
• [$5000][430353] High CVE-2014-7923: Memory corruption in ICU. Credit to yangdingning.
• [$4500][435880] High CVE-2014-7924: Use-after-free in IndexedDB. Credit to Collin Payne.
• [$4000][434136] High CVE-2014-7925: Use-after-free in WebAudio. Credit to mark.buer.
• [$4000][422824] High CVE-2014-7926: Memory corruption in ICU. Credit to yangdingning.
• [$3500][444695] High CVE-2014-7927: Memory corruption in V8. Credit to Christian Holler.
• [$3500][435073] High CVE-2014-7928: Memory corruption in V8. Credit to Christian Holler.
• [$3000][442806] High CVE-2014-7930: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$3000][442710] High CVE-2014-7931: Memory corruption in V8. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$2000][443115] High CVE-2014-7929: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$2000][429666] High CVE-2014-7932: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$2000][427266] High CVE-2014-7933: Use-after-free in FFmpeg. Credit to aohelin.
• [$2000][427249] High CVE-2014-7934: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$2000][402957] High CVE-2014-7935: Use-after-free in Speech. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
• [$1500][428561] High CVE-2014-7936: Use-after-free in Views. Credit to Christoph Diehl.
• [$1500][419060] High CVE-2014-7937: Use-after-free in FFmpeg. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$1000][416323] High CVE-2014-7938: Memory corruption in Fonts. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$1000][399951] High CVE-2014-7939: Same-origin-bypass in V8. Credit to Takeshi Terada.
• [$1000][433866] Medium CVE-2014-7940: Uninitialized-value in ICU. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$1000][428557] Medium CVE-2014-7941: Out-of-bounds read in UI. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG and Christoph Diehl.
• [$1000][426762] Medium CVE-2014-7942: Uninitialized-value in Fonts. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$1000][422492] Medium CVE-2014-7943: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$1000][418881] Medium CVE-2014-7944: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$1000][414310] Medium CVE-2014-7945: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$1000][414109] Medium CVE-2014-7946: Out-of-bounds read in Fonts. Credit to miaubiz.
• [$500][430566] Medium CVE-2014-7947: Out-of-bounds read in PDFium. Credit to fuzztercluck.
• [$500][414026] Medium CVE-2014-7948: Caching error in AppCache. Credit to jiayaoqijia.
• As usual, our ongoing internal security work was responsible for a wide range of fixes:
• [449894] Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.
• Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed at the tip of the 3.30 branch (currently 3.30.33.15).

What is new in version 39.0.2171.99:

• This release contains an update for Adobe Flash as well as a number of other fixes.

What is new in version 39.0.2171.95:

• This release contains an update for Adobe Flash as well as a number of other fixes.

What is new in version 39.0.2171.71:

• This release contains an update for Adobe Flash as well as a number of other fixes.

What is new in version 40.0.2214.10 Beta:

• Profile Lock, which introduces the ability to "child lock" signed-in profiles.
• New Tabs Page Suggestions, which tries to determine which sites you'd like to visit depending on the the time and day.
• New crash recovery UI.

What is new in version 39.0.2171.65:

• New Features:
• 64-bit support for Mac
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
• Security Fixes:
• High CVE-2014-7899: Address bar spoofing.
• High CVE-2014-7900: Use-after-free in pdfium.
• High CVE-2014-7901: Integer overflow in pdfium.
• High CVE-2014-7902: Use-after-free in pdfium.
• High CVE-2014-7903: Buffer overflow in pdfium.
• High CVE-2014-7904: Buffer overflow in Skia.
• High CVE-2014-7905: Flaw allowing navigation to intents that do not have the BROWSABLE category.
• High CVE-2014-7906: Use-after-free in pepper plugins.
• High CVE-2014-0574: Double-free in Flash.
• High CVE-2014-7907: Use-after-free in blink.
• High CVE-2014-7908: Integer overflow in media.
• Medium CVE-2014-7909: Uninitialized memory read in Skia.

What is new in version 38.0.2125.101:

• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 38.0.2125.58 Beta:

• With this release Chrome Mac is 32-bit and will continue to be 32-bit when Chrome 38 goes to stable. With the release of Chrome 39, we will be moving Mac to 64-bit and will no longer support 32-bit NPAPI plugins.

What is new in version 37.0.2062.120:

• This release contains an update for Adobe Flash as well as a number of other fixes.
• This update includes 4 security fixes.

What is new in version 38.0.2125.24 Beta:

• New experimental user switching design which makes changing profiles and into incognito mode simpler.
• A new experimental Guest mode.
• Experimental UI for Chrome supervised users.
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance.

What is new in version 37.0.2062.94:

• DirectWrite support on Windows for improved font rendering
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
• This update includes 50 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were either contributed by external researchers or particularly interesting:
• [$30000][386988] Critical CVE-2014-3176, CVE-2014-3177: A special reward to lokihardt@asrt for a combination of bugs in V8, IPC, sync, and extensions that can lead to remote code execution outside of the sandbox.
• [$2000][369860] High CVE-2014-3168: Use-after-free in SVG. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$2000][387389] High CVE-2014-3169: Use-after-free in DOM. Credit to Andrzej Dyjak.
• [$1000][390624] High CVE-2014-3170: Extension permission dialog spoofing. Credit to Rob Wu.
• [$4000][390928] High CVE-2014-3171: Use-after-free in bindings. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$1500][367567] Medium CVE-2014-3172: Issue related to extension debugging. Credit to Eli Grey.
• [$2000][376951] Medium CVE-2014-3173: Uninitialized memory read in WebGL. Credit to jmuizelaar.
• [$500][389219] Medium CVE-2014-3174: Uninitialized memory read in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen from OUSPG.

What is new in version 36.0.1985.143:

• This update includes 12 security fixes.

What is new in version 37.0.2062.20 Beta:

• DirectWrite support on Windows
• A new password manager UI
• Automatic reload of unreachable pages when network becomes available
• Dropped Chrome sign-in requirement for Chrome Apps
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 36.0.1985.122:

• Rich Notifications Improvements
• An Updated Incognito / Guest NTP design
• The addition of a Browser crash recovery bubble
• Chrome App Launcher for Linux
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 35.0.1916.153:

• This update includes 4 security fixes:
• CVE-2014-3154: Use-after-free in filesystem API.
• CVE-2014-3155: Out-of-bounds read in SPDY.
• CVE-2014-3156: Buffer overflow in clipboard.
• CVE-2014-3157: Heap overflow in media.

What is new in version 36.0.1985.18 Beta:

• New Chrome app launcher for Linux
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 35.0.1916.114:

• More developer control over touch input
• New JavaScript features
• Unprefixed Shadow DOM
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
• This update includes 23 security fixes

What is new in version 36.0.1985.8 Dev:

• Fixes and improvements:
• Introduce a new framework for back-and-forth tracked preference migration between Protected Preferences and unprotected Preferences.
• Fix the compile error for win64: widevine_key_systems.cc.
• Prefer GL_ARB_sync/ES3 fences
• Fix an issue that jni generator is ignoring input param

What is new in version 34.0.1847.137:

• Bug fixes:
• High CVE-2014-1740: Use-after-free in WebSockets.
• High CVE-2014-1741: Integer overflow in DOM ranges.
• High CVE-2014-1742: Use-after-free in editing.

What is new in version 35.0.1916.27 Beta:

• More developer control over touch input
• New JavaScript features
• Unprefixed Shadow DOM
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 34.0.1847.116:

• Responsive Images and Unprefixed Web Audio
• Import supervised users onto new computers
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• A different look for Win8 Metro mode
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 33.0.1750.12:

• [$100,000] [352369] Code execution outside sandbox. Credit to VUPEN.
• [352374] High CVE-2014-1713: Use-after-free in Blink bindings
• [$60,000] [352420] Code execution outside sandbox. Credit to Anonymous.
• [351787] High CVE-2014-1705: Memory corruption in V8
• [352429] High CVE-2014-1715: Directory traversal issue

What is new in version 33.0.1750.149:

• This update includes 7 security fixes.

What is new in version 33.0.1750.146:

• This update includes 19 security fixes.

What is new in version 34.0.1847.14 Beta:

• Responsive Images and Unprefixed Web Audio
• Hands-free Google Voice Search in Chrome
• Import supervised users onto new computers
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance

What is new in version 33.0.1750.117:

• This update includes 28 security fixes. Below, we highlight fixes that were either contributed by external researchers or particularly interesting.
• [$2000][334897] High CVE-2013-6652: Issue with relative paths in Windows sandbox named pipe policy. Credit to tyranid.
• [$1000][331790] High CVE-2013-6653: Use-after-free related to web contents. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
• [$3000][333176] High CVE-2013-6654: Bad cast in SVG. Credit to TheShow3511.
• [$3000][293534] High CVE-2013-6655: Use-after-free in layout. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$500][331725] High CVE-2013-6656: Information leak in XSS auditor. Credit to NeexEmil.
• [$1000][331060] Medium CVE-2013-6657: Information leak in XSS auditor. Credit to NeexEmil.
• [$2000][322891] Medium CVE-2013-6658: Use-after-free in layout. Credit to cloudfuzzer.
• [$1000][306959] Medium CVE-2013-6659: Issue with certificates validation in TLS handshake. Credit to Antoine Delignat-Lavaud and Karthikeyan Bhargavan from Prosecco, Inria Paris.
• [332579] Low CVE-2013-6660: Information leak in drag and drop. Credit to bishopjeffreys.
• As usual, our ongoing internal security work responsible for a wide range of fixes:
• [344876] Low-High CVE-2013-6661: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives. Of these, seven are fixes for issues that could have allowed for sandbox escapes from compromised renderers.

What is new in version 32.0.1700.102:

• Mouse Pointer disappears after exiting full-screen mode.
• Drag and drop files into Chrome may not work properly.
• Quicktime Plugin crashes in Chrome.
• Chrome becomes unresponsive.
• Trackpad users may not be able to scroll horizontally.
• Scrolling does not work in combo box.
• Chrome does not work with all CSS minifiers such as whitespace around a media query's `and` keyword.
• This update includes 14 security fixes.

What is new in version 32.0.1700.77:

• Tab indicators for sound, webcam and casting
• A different look for Win8 Metro mode
• Automatically blocking malware files
• A number of new apps/extension APIs
• Lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance
• Flash Player has been updated to version 12.0.0.41
• This update includes 11 security fixes

What is new in version 32.0.1700.77 Beta:

• This release fixes the vertical and horizontal scrolling issues (332797 and 320849). If you continue to see issues after the update please add comments to the bugs.

What is new in version 33.0.1736.3 Dev:

• This release fixes a number of crashes and other bugs.