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[still1]

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The Chrome team is excited to announce the release of Chrome 17 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame. 17.0.963.46 contains a number of new features including:

• New Extensions APIs
  
• Updated Omnibox Prerendering
  
• Download Scanning Protection
  
• Many other small changes

Security fixes and rewards:
Please seethe Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix

• [73478] Low CVE-2011-3953: Avoid clipboard monitoring after paste event. Credit to Daniel Cheng of the Chromium development community.
  
• [92550] Low CVE-2011-3954: Crash with excessive database usage. Credit to Collin Payne.
  
• [93106] High CVE-2011-3955: Crash aborting an IndexDB transaction. Credit to David Grogan of the Chromium development community.
  
• [103630] Low CVE-2011-3956: Incorrect handling of sandboxed origins inside extensions. Credit to Devdatta Akhawe, UC Berkeley.
  
• [$1000] [104056] High CVE-2011-3957: Use-after-free in PDF garbage collection. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  
• [$2000] [105459] High CVE-2011-3958: Bad casts with column spans. Credit to miaubiz.
  
• [$1000] [106441] High CVE-2011-3959: Buffer overflow in locale handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  
• [$500] [108416] Medium CVE-2011-3960: Out-of-bounds read in audio decoding. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  
• [$1000] [108871] Critical CVE-2011-3961: Race condition after crash of utility process. Credit to Shawn Goertzen.
  
• [$500] [108901] Medium CVE-2011-3962: Out-of-bounds read in path clipping. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  
• [109094] Medium CVE-2011-3963: Out-of-bounds read in PDF fax image handling. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
  
• [109245] Low CVE-2011-3964: URL bar confusion after drag + drop. Credit to Code Audit Labs of VulnHunt.com.
  
• [109664] Low CVE-2011-3965: Crash in signature check. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.
  
• [$1000] [109716] High CVE-2011-3966: Use-after-free in stylesheet error handling. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  
• [109717] Low CVE-2011-3967: Crash with unusual certificate. Credit to Ben Carrillo.
  
• [$1000] [109743] High CVE-2011-3968: Use-after-free in CSS handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
  
• [$1000] [110112] High CVE-2011-3969: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
  
• [$500] [110277] Medium CVE-2011-3970: Out-of-bounds read in libxslt. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
  
• [$1000] [110374] High CVE-2011-3971: Use-after-free with mousemove events. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
  
• [110559] Medium CVE-2011-3972: Out-of-bounds read in shader translator. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

The bugs [105459], [106441], [108416], [108901], [109716], [109743], [110112], [110277], [110374] and [110559] were detected usingAddressSanitizer.
In addition, we would like to thank miaubiz, Drew Yao and Braden Thomas of Apple, Sławomir Błażek, Aki Helin of OUSPG, Chamal de Silva and Atte Kettunen of OUSPG for working with us in the development cycle and preventing bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Various rewards were issued, including a top $3133.70 reward to Aki Helin.

http://googlechromer...nel-update.html

[Midnight Mick]

Any proper sidebar for bookmarks yet (not a poor extension)?

[still1]

Midnight Mick, on 08 February 2012 - 17:20, said:

Any proper sidebar for bookmarks yet (not a poor extension)?

Not yet but maybe you can try this extension

https://chrome.googl...empkdi?hl=en-US

[Xilo]

Tab overflow yet?

[+littleneutrino]

had an auto update waiting for me this morning

[still1]

Xilo, on 08 February 2012 - 17:45, said:

Tab overflow yet?

not yet.

[Lord Venom]

This has the webRequest API so blocking video ads with an adblock extension should work as good as Firefox now.

[still1]

Lord Venom, on 08 February 2012 - 21:51, said:

This has the webRequest API so blocking video ads with an adblock extension should work as good as Firefox now.

yes, thats an awesome feature. I was waiting for download protection. it protects all those stupid people who download and install what ever they find in the internet.

[iron2000]

Midnight Mick, on 08 February 2012 - 17:20, said:

Any proper sidebar for bookmarks yet (not a poor extension)?

Coolnovo (previously ChromePlus) has a bookmarks sidebar of sorts but its slow to catch up with the official Chrome builds.

[Gerowen]

Noticed it in the list with all my Debian updates this morning. Loving Chrome, :-)

[fanel89]

I'm getting a weird visual glitch with any YouTube downloader extension / script, like this:
http://imgur.com/geWcQ
This was after I updated to Chrome 17 stable. I was using Chrome 17 beta before.

[Blaze_Zewi]

Update 17.xx and they haven't do something about the scrolling issue yet.

[still1]

Blaze_Zewi, on 09 February 2012 - 05:16, said:

Update 17.xx and they haven't do something about the scrolling issue yet.

got to about:flags
enable Smooth Scrolling
whola!!! smooth scrolling

[Blaze_Zewi]

still1, on 09 February 2012 - 06:52, said:

got to about:flags enable Smooth Scrolling whola!!! smooth scrolling

Why put this option in such a weird place....
No big deal....

[still1]

Blaze_Zewi, on 09 February 2012 - 07:03, said:

Why put this option in such a weird place....
No big deal....

its an experimental features and it is disabled by default. it will make it to the stable build after few stable releases.