14 DAY TRIAL // Google is not yet ready to move Chrome 12 to final status with a new build of Chrome 11 being made available for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome Frame users on the Stable channel.
Chrome 11.0.696.71 is a security update mostly, but not all code corrections in the latest Chrome 11 are related to vulnerabilities.
[admark=1]Two of the security issues mentioned by Google’s Karen Grunberg are labeled as critical.
Critical CVE-2011-1806: Memory corruption in GPU command buffer. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
Critical CVE-2011-1807: Out-of-bounds write in blob handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno) and Kostya Serebryany of the Chromium development community.
Another two are labeled as Low and High respectively.
Low CVE-2011-1801: Pop-up blocker bypass. Credit to Chamal De Silva. High CVE-2011-1804: Stale pointer in floats rendering. Credit to Martin Barbella.
Finally, Chrome 11.0.696.71 incorporates code corrections for a regression bug where selections extended by arrow keys flickered on LinkedIn.com, an attempt to have ConnectBackupJob try IPv4 first to hide potential long IPv6 connect timeout, as well as for incorrect ACLs on the archived copy of setup.exe, for Windows users.
A Mac specific fix is also listed: “Mac plugin crashes are too low in stats,” according to Google’s technicians.
Users who are not shy of Chrome builds that crash or exhibit misbehavior at times can try out the latest Chrome 13 Dev release, or Chrome 12 beta.
Via the link below, Mac users can download all versions of Google’s open source web browser.
Download Google Chrome for Mac OS X (Free)
System requirements for Chrome include a Macintosh computer based on the Intel CPU architecture, Mac OS X version 10.5 (Leopard) or Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 128MB of RAM and around 100MB of free hard disk space.