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Is there a hidden Document viewer in Google Chrome ? Gview ?

by Dinu

chrome news Is there a hidden Document viewer in Google Chrome ? Gview ?

Google Gview

I love rumors, and rumors with some bit of proof ? ….  that will be really cool ! … now, here is one for you. A blogger over here, found out that there is a hidden document viewer in Google Chrome, which can be enabled by adding –enable-viewer to the command line on your Chrome. Confused ? Wait,  I will tell you what it is.

How It Works

It works like the document viewer in Gmail. Remember those tiny links, asking you if you want to open documents in Google Docs ? ( spreadsheets, word files and PPTs ) … you click on them, and the document is there on another window for you, without downloading it, and without opening your MS Office program.

I hope you got this far. Now, imagine this, you found a PDF or PPT file online, a link on the website, somewhere … normally, you will need to download the file, and then open it .. right ? ( sometimes yes, pdf files do open in browser )   but with this cool feature, you can open it on your browser itself, perhaps, as a new tab … cool uh ?

What is Gview ?

Gview is a little secret that Google has kept inside their Google Docs thing, where you can view any PDF or PPT document online by putting it through Gview stuff, just like you embed a video from youtube etc. In other words, it makes documents “embeddable”. Well, it works on all browsers .. but for Chrome, it will be in built, … may be we will see something more to this very soon.

The document need not be hosted on Google Docs or anywhere on google. You can upload it anywhere, and just give the URL .

Don’t you think this is cool ?

Important : Security Issue on Google Chrome, and Fix

by Dinu

chrome security chrome news Important : Security Issue on Google Chrome, and Fix

Chrome Security

A security issue was reported on Google Chrome, which could be used for “cross-website scripting attacks”. No worries, Google has already has a new version of Chrome which fixes this issue. Here is another happy news, you don’t need to update chrome, Google Chrome will automatically update to the new version, you just need to restart it to take effect.

Here is more on the security issue.

In a blog posting, Mark Larson, Google Chrome program manager, wrote:

“An error in handling URLs with a chromehtml: protocol could allow an attacker to run scripts of his choosing on any page or enumerate files on the local disk under certain conditions.”

“If a user has Google Chrome installed, visiting an attacker-controlled web page in Internet Explorer could have caused Google Chrome to launch, open multiple tabs, and load scripts that run after navigating to a URL of the attacker’s choice. Such an attack only works if Chrome is not already running.”

Now, just double check to make sure that your Google Chrome installation is up to date, and feel safe ! If you do not know how to check if Google Chrome version is up to date, here is ChromeStory’s post on this. Questions ? Drop me a comment !!

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