Tag Archives: Chrome 17

Chrome Patches 14 High-risk Bugs Before Pwn2Own 2012

It seems that the hackers would have a tough challenge at Pwn2Own 2012 for winning the reward of $1 million for hacking Google Chrome. Just before the event, Google has shipped an update for the stable version of Chrome, v17.0.963.65, which fixes 14 high-risk bugs.

Chrome’s Actual Market Share May Be Slightly Less Than Expected

With Chrome 13, Google introduced few exciting features like “Instant Pages” and “Prerendering”. Chrome 17 brought prerendering to the omnibox. These features enable Chrome to start loading web pages in background and finally result into faster browsing experience. On the other hand, it also generates unviewed visits when a user does not visit the pre-rendered [...]

Chrome 17 Stable Released with Omnibox Pre-rendering

Google Chrome 17 has been released to the stable channel with several new features and improvements. The most important features introduced with Chrome 17 are omnibox pre-rendering and Safe Browsing for protection against malicious downloads.

HTTP Pipelining In Google Chrome

Latest Chromium build has added a new item on about:flags (chrome://flags) page for enabling HTTP pipelining. HTTP pipelining is still missing in Google Chrome, whereas Opera and Firefox support this feature for long.

Chromium 17

Chromium 17 is here, just after 40 days of Chromium 16. Along with this, the dev channel of Google Chrome has been updated to the version number 16.0.912.0 on Windows platform.