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google chrome Finally Google relaesed its long time awaiting browser called CHROME that looks slightly cartoonish, but at the same time is extremely light weighted and fast to start, load and naviagte. This browser has lots of features that may make it a big player in the world of Internet if not a killer of FireFox or even Internet Explorer 8 that is coming soon. Does it look like Google attempts to conquor Internet?

Download links are:

from google http://tools.google.com/chrome/?hl=en-US and from download.com website.

It's interesting to watch battle of the giants Microsoft and Mozilla (IE6, IE7 and IE8 vs FireFox 2 and FireFox 3). Read More for Chrome Security issues and valnurability.

But it will be even more exciting to see what wiil be happening with release of this browser. Let's see what security experts from Kaspersky Labs and TrendMicro will say about new Google Chrome Browser and compare it to existing browsers. How safe will it be to access secure sites ad perform shopping and banking online. Will OpenSource idea survive and win Microsoft's code behind IE8? Will see soon.

So fa, it feels like a lite version of safari... may because Chrome's agent reminds and build upon safari's platform. Here is the Chrome's Agent Information:

Official Build 1583
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13

More details:

Portions of this software were licensed from third parties as described at: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=100336

Chrome Issues:

1. User Agreement - fixed

2. Aviv Raff (security expert) found Chrome valnurability - on a specialy set site chrome may execute some files that may be harmful for user's system. Conclusion: watchout for phishing sites, turn on Anti-virus and firewalls)

3. Vietnamese internet security company Bach Khoa Internet Security (BKIS) reports Chrome issues during download files via command "Save As" or saving page with extremely long title, buffer becomes overloaded and hackers may execute any command and take control over users system.

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