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Major Security Issue, Update Now !!

by Dinu

Google has identified  a major security risk to the browser and also added a security update for the browser. Here is more info from Google Chrome’s blog


Severity: Critical. An attacker might be able to run code with the privileges of the logged on user.
If you are using Google Chrome now, what you need to do, is check if your Google Chrome installation is latest.  I have explained how to do this here The version should show “ 1.0.154.64″ for stable version users. If this is not the current version of your browser, you will see an “upgrade” link next to it, click it, and then restart the browser when upgrade is done.
Along with this new security patch, this release also contains
  • A new notification at startup that makes it easier to set Google Chrome as the default browser. If you don’t want Google Chrome to be the default browser, you can click ‘Don’t ask again’.
  • A new version of Gears (0.5.16.0)

Most of you will have the latest version installed, automatically. Surprised ? What Google

Chrome Fans Blog explains here is so true, the auto update feature really rocks !!

Searching Text Area Feature Added to Google Chrome

by Dinu

When you edit pages on websites like Wikipedia, or when you edit the css or php of the website online, you work a lot with text area of the page, where you type, edit and modify your content. Earlier, Google chrome used to ignore this area when you do a search with Ctrl + F

With the recent update to the Google Chrome browser, this issue has been fixed. When you search the page from now onwards, the text area also will be included. I see several happy users on the Google Chrome forum after this update ! One of them said

“Okay, with the new beta version (2.0.169.1), the find function FINALLY works to search inside text areas.  Hallelujah!”

If you were missing this feature, you can go ahead and try Google Chrome now. Yet another reason to swtich to Google Chrome !!