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This is not a joke. If you are using Google Chrome then it is very easy for a malicious attacker to get the Remote Access of your Computer.

Less than a week after the release of Google (NSDQ:GOOG)’s new Web browser Chrome, security researchers detected a buffer overflow vulnerability that could enable remote attackers to completely take control of a user’s computer.

The detected buffer overflow vulnerability, deemed critical by security experts, is the result of a boundary error in the handling of the “Save As” function. If a user saves a Web page serving malicious content, the program could cause a stack-based overflow error, which could open the door for remote hackers to unleash malicious code on a user’s machine.

Remote attackers could then exploit the flaw by constructing a specially crafted Web page infused with malicious code. The attacker could then entice a victim to open and then Read the rest of this entry &raquo

Update: 10.09.08: As from today on, due to an update from Chrome the :% issue is no more valid.

Rishi Narang has been the first. A Denial Of Service simple as pie:

Just browse this page and place your mouse over this link (make sure you bookmark this page if you want to read on though):

CRASH ME

Just “evil:%” in the anchor text is capable of crashing all the Chrome tabs (despite all the tabs are separated processes).

Someone has also reported that by entering a very long bookmark may kill the browser. Length has not been given but it’s worth a try.

If your Chrome is still alive you may want to try entering

about@:

in the location bar.

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Like most other browsers, Google Chrome has some special pages that show information about memory usage, cached files, plug-ins and more. Here’s a list of the most interesting about: pages available in Google Chrome (you can open them by dragging about:name to the address bar).

1. about:version - Google Chrome shows the version number the browser, WebKit and V8 (JavaScript engine). You can also find the user-agent used by Google Chrome:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Safari/525.19

2. about:plugins - the list of plug-ins that are available in Google Chrome: Shockwave Flash, RealPlayer etc.

3. about:cache - a list of all the web pages cached by Google Chrome. The browser doesn’t have an option to limit the cache’s size, so it’s recommended to regularly empty the cache.

4. about:memory - this pages compares the memory used by all the active browsers and by Google Chrome’s tabs.

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..as a twitter-plugin in WP didn’t work for a while, here is the history of most of my tweets in the meantime:

• teste mal grade ein twitter plugin für wordpress… 2008/09/04 19:50:00
• Damn, I’m in browser-hell! My Firefox somehow crashes all 5 minutes. Is this the revenge from de-installed Chrome? 2008/09/03
• weiter meckern: Wieso kommt mein geiles iGoogle Theme nicht in die Hintergrund-Liste? http://www.darearts.net/ig Wer voted für mich? 2008/09/02
• http://twitpic.com/a0xc - …think I pushed some wrong button in Wordpress… 2008/09/02
• .. Chrome deinstalliert! #konsequent Wein auf, Klotze an, Tschüss ihr! 2008/09/02
• okay, Chrome getestet, fühle mich wie im rechtebeschnittenen Internetcafe. Back to Firefox, Heimat! Chrome kann nur ne Menge AddOns retten. 2008/09/02
• gleich mal Keinohrhasen gucken auf maxdome #femaleGruppenzwang 2008/09/02
• also ich find Google Chrome doof, einfach weil ich mich auf Firefox eingestellt hab und die Welt keinen neuen Browserkrieg braucht! 2008/09/02
• Watch this crazy snail pics http://tinyurl.com/5snftq 2008/09/02
• mal mit animoto.com rumgespielt. Supergeil, Video für meine Mucke gemacht (mitchQ) http://animoto.com/play/KnLbcf8H6K3QpZvu6ks6aw 2008/09/01
• Posting to Twitter… 2008/09/01
• Interessante arte-Doku:”Hacktivisten - Rebellen im Internet” http://tinyurl.com/5twmw6 2008/09/01
• jetzt hats geflashte Viewty nen quietschgelben screen und sagt nur noch “refreshing”… soll ich mir jetzt ne Cola kaufen oda was? 2008/09/01
• Mal wieder mein Viety-Handy flashen, gucken ob die neue Firmware weniger buggy ist… 2008/09/01
• mich glotzt schon den ganzen Tag eine Heuschrecke durch mein fenster an, die hat sich da festgesetzt… 2008/09/01
• Jawoll! Nazi-Server von “Blood & Honor” geknackt http://tinyurl.com/5wyq2s 2008/09/01
• Auf 1Live läuft grade “Last Christmas” von Wham! Als Huldigung für den wohl heute schon gestarteten Weihnachtmannverkauf in den Supermärkten 2008/08/29
• @Orli Know Photosynth already? Make 3D from photos http://tinyurl.com/58a8j4 2008/08/29
• Wegen Extrem-SQL-Gescripte sowohl den #webmontag + #Socialwebbreakfast verpasst. Gibts Webmontag-Video (auf Mogulus) nachträglich? 2008/08/26
• Computeranimationen realer als die Realität http://tinyurl.com/5epwv3 2008/08/26

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Actually, I would have more liked to give the win to Firefox and develop that to the may, instead of bringing in another rivale.

Google Blogoscoped has published a lengthly cartoon sent to them by Google and drawn by Scott McCloud that provides the first public details about Google Chrome, an open source browser based on WebKit and powered by Google Gears that has been rumored but never before confirmed.

According to the cartoon (which can be seen in its entirely here - thanks Marshall), the Google Chrome project has already undergone a substantial period of development with engineers working to create a product that’s secure, user friendly, fast, stable, safe, and easily testable.

This is a straight shot over the bow of Microsoft, which has tightly integrated its Live Search offering into its dominant Internet Explorer browser (and which, surprise, is also tightly integrated into Read the rest of this entry &raquo