Google updates its browser Chrome 16 and fixes some vulnerabilities, one of which, due to blocking content deemed fraudulent, resulting in systematic crashes.
Availability of Windows, Mac and Linux, the new stable version of Google Chrome (16.0.912.7) fixes some vulnerabilities,four of utmost importance and a fifth deemed critical by the systematic crashes it causes.
In this case, the browser necessarily turning of the eye if the user had the misfortune to update an HTML page that jammed under an allegedly fraudulent or content deemed harmful to the integrity of the system.
According to Google’s policy on this, the so-called Da Silva was awarded the generous sum of 3133 dollars for reporting this bug.
The other four faults listed, two were related to DOM, which stands for Document Object Model, interfaces processing XML content. Their respective discoverers have each grossed more than a thousand dollars.
With a steady pace of updates, Chrome is in its sixteenth major release. Its previous version was able to surpass Internet Explorer and Firefox to settle in the top of the hierarchy, as the most used browser in the world.
In support of a host of features such as managing multiple user accounts and support advanced real-time via VoIP technology WebRTC , Google takes the position of a market which it now seems to hold the cards .
Although there is much to tarnish the homogeneity of such a table, these questionable practices that were intended to artificially up the PageRank of Chrome and have earned the Mountain View company to practice the art of self- punishment .