Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Chrome - information about bugs

Google Chrome has only just available for download and the bugs are already known. That is not surprising when you consider that it is a beta version. Google Chrome has chosen to use the browser as soon as possible available for download and on the basis of comments from users to make improvements. Below is a list of the bugs so far known.

All tabs crash
Google in the launch of Chrome that Chrome different from other browsers by the Special crash protection. 1 tab would crash, then you can separate tab without closing the other tabs that you would be lost.

Unfortunately, this is not always to go. In certain urls (web addresses you type in the address bar) crashes the browser. This can also happen by a tikfoutje of the user or even by using your mouse on a hyperlink to go on this way up.

This all tabs closed and you immediately get the following error:


This vulnerability can not be exploited by malicious, it's just very annoying. You have all the information in your open tabs are lost. If you use Google Chrome as a browser and you would like an example of this bug see then go to the example of this bug in Google Chrome.

Strange detail is that when you with the tab key to navigate through the website, you do not have problems with such links, even when you click them. You just get a message that the page could not be found.


The second bug is discussed is dangerous. Google Chrome is based partly on the Safari browser from Apple. When Safari was some time ago a known vulnerability. This leak can be a website and download files from the Internet on your desktop set. In Safari, this vulnerability already fixed, but Google Chrome is based on an older version of Safari in which the leak has not yet been resolved.

The researcher Raffe Aviv in Israel discovered that the leak even more risk if it combined with a recently discovered bug in Java. This allows certain files directly on the user's computer.

Other browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox give an immediate message that the download is blocked for security reasons. Preview this tapijtbom bug.

Solutions
At this moment there is no new version of Chrome which bugs are fixed. Google has indicated that the bugs in the next version of Chrome will be remedied. If true this version is not yet known.

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