Google Chrome 19
The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.54 on Mac to support the transition to OS-X Mountain Lion
The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.52 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
The Chrome Stable channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.52 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.
Security fixes and rewards:
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.
- [117409] High CVE-2011-3103: Crashes in v8 garbage collection. Credit to the Chromium development community (Brett Wilson).
- [118018] Medium CVE-2011-3104: Out-of-bounds read in Skia. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
- [$1000] [120912] High CVE-2011-3105: Use-after-free in first-letter handling. Credit to miaubiz.
- [122654] Critical CVE-2011-3106: Browser memory corruption with websockets over SSL. Credit to the Chromium development community (Dharani Govindan).
- [124625] High CVE-2011-3107: Crashes in the plug-in JavaScript bindings. Credit to the Chromium development community (Dharani Govindan).
- [$1337] [125159] Critical CVE-2011-3108: Use-after-free in browser cache. Credit to “efbiaiinzinz”.
- [Linux only] [$1000] [126296] High CVE-2011-3109: Bad cast in GTK UI. Credit to Micha Bartholomé.
- [126337] [126343] [126378] [127349] [127819] [127868] High CVE-2011-3110: Out of bounds writes in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.
- [$500] [126414] Medium CVE-2011-3111: Invalid read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.
- [127331] High CVE-2011-3112: Use-after-free with invalid encrypted PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.
- [127883] High CVE-2011-3113: Invalid cast with colorspace handling in PDF. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team, with contributions by Gynvael Coldwind of the Google Security Team.
- [128014] High CVE-2011-3114: Buffer overflows with PDF functions. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (scarybeasts).
- [$1000] [128018] High CVE-2011-3115: Type corruption in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.
Many of these bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.
Full details about what changes are in this release are available in the SVN revision log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Google Chrome 19 arrives to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
Please see the Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.
- [112983] Low CVE-2011-3083: Browser crash with video + FTP. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
- [113496] Low CVE-2011-3084: Load links from internal pages in their own process. Credit to Brett Wilson of the Chromium development community.
- [118374] Medium CVE-2011-3085: UI corruption with long autofilled values. Credit to “psaldorn”.
- [$1000] [118642] High CVE-2011-3086: Use-after-free with style element. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
- [118664] Low CVE-2011-3087: Incorrect window navigation. Credit to Charlie Reis of the Chromium development community.
- [$500] [120648] Medium CVE-2011-3088: Out-of-bounds read in hairline drawing. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
- [$1000] [120711] High CVE-2011-3089: Use-after-free in table handling. Credit to miaubiz.
- [$500] [121223] Medium CVE-2011-3090: Race condition with workers. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
- [121734] High CVE-2011-3091: Use-after-free with indexed DB. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
- [$1000] [122337] High CVE-2011-3092: Invalid write in v8 regex. Credit to Christian Holler.
- [$500] [122585] Medium CVE-2011-3093: Out-of-bounds read in glyph handling. Credit to miaubiz.
- [122586] Medium CVE-2011-3094: Out-of-bounds read in Tibetan handling. Credit to miaubiz.
- [$1000] [123481] High CVE-2011-3095: Out-of-bounds write in OGG container. Credit to Hannu Heikkinen.
- [Linux only] [123530] Low CVE-2011-3096: Use-after-free in GTK omnibox handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.
- [123733] [124182] High CVE-2011-3097: Out-of-bounds write in sampled functions with PDF. Credit to Kostya Serebryany of Google and Evgeniy Stepanov of Google.
- [Windows only] [124216] Low CVE-2011-3098: Bad search path for Windows Media Player plug-in. Credit to Haifei Li of Microsoft and MSVR (MSVR:159).
- [124479] High CVE-2011-3099: Use-after-free in PDF with corrupt font encoding name. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Security Team and Gynvael Coldwind of Google Security Team.
- [124652] Medium CVE-2011-3100: Out-of-bounds read drawing dash paths. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).
And some additional rewards for issues with a wider scope than Chrome:
- [Linux only] [$500] [118970] Medium CVE-2011-3101: Work around Linux Nvidia driver bug. Credit to Aki Helin of OUSPG.
- [$1500] [125462] High CVE-2011-3102: Off-by-one out-of-bounds write in libxml. Credit to Jüri Aedla.
Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.
We’d also like to thank Aki Helin of OUSPG, Sławomir Błażek, Chamal de Silva, miaubiz, Arthur Gerkis and Christian Holler for working with us during the development cycle and preventing security regressions from ever reaching the stable channel. $9000 of additional rewards were issued for this awesomeness.
The Beta channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.46 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
The Beta channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.41 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
The Beta channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.36 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
Beta Channel Update - The Beta channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.30 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
Take a look at the changelog to see what happened in this release, we've update the localization and fixed a number of stability issues.
The Beta channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.24 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame
Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.15 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
- Other Devices menu shows last update time for other sessions, and allows sessions to be hidden using a context menu.
- Fix sync issue with sessions (open tabs) triggering an unrecoverable error.
Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.9 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
- Updated V8 - 3.9.24.7
Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1084.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
- Fixed issue cannot add GMail app to Chrome. [Issue: 119975]
- Fixed theme and bookmarks bar notifications. [Issue: 117027]
- Fixed popup prompting permission for flash plugin. [Issue: 120358]
Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1081.2 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
- Updated V8 - 3.9.24.1
- The Other Devices menu on the new tab page restores the navigation history when a tab is restored.
Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1068.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1061.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
- Updated V8 - 3.9.13.0
- Added remote file system support for File object by 'create-snapshot-first' approach (Issue: 115603)
- Fixed overlap of apps in NTP when deleting and reinstalling app (Issue: 116284)
- Fixed issues - 116174, 115309, 115858, 108239, 115399, 105054 (ChromeOS-specific)
Full details about what changes are in this build are available in the SVN revision log. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.
Dev Channel Update for Chromebooks - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1055.3
The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1055.3 (Platform version: 1861.3.0) for Chromebooks (Acer AC700, and Samsung Series 5).
Highlights:
- Introducing new full-screen video and audio player
- New file formats supported: rar, tar, tar.gz, and tar.bz2
- Combined settings pages (still under development)
Known issues:
- Issue 25642: Selecting "Open Date and time options" from Time drop-down does not open the Date/Time settings page
- Issue 26778: Deleting a certificate causes chrome to crash
- Issue 27094 in chromium-os: Cannot connect to 802.1x network using EAP_TLS
- Issue 26823: wpa_supplicant crashes
If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. You can also submit feedback using "Report an issue" under the wrench icon. Interested in switching to the Dev channel? Find out how.
Smooth Scrolling Comes to Google Chrome in Chrome 19
Google Chrome has seen tremendous growth since it was released 2 years ago. It has competed with browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer by adding new features which have drawn users towards it. However, one of the most requested feature that has been missing in Google Chrome has been smooth scrolling.

Smooth Scrolling allows users to browse webpages in a single flow without continuous jumps in the display. The lack of this feature made scrolling in Chrome a bad experience if not worse. However, the wait for Smooth Scrolling might be over in a few months because Google has now included the Smooth Scrolling feature in the development version of Google Chrome (v19.0.1041.0 dev-m).
With the introduction of this feature, scrolling in Chrome has become less jumpy and maintains a single flow when you are scrolling from top to bottom or vice versa. The feature might be rolled out with the stable version of Google Chrome in near future, so you might have to wait a month or two before you can start using it.
If you are using the dev version, you will have to enable the Smooth Scroll feature in about:flags before you can use it. Head over to about:flags and enable "Smooth Scrolling". This feature is available for Windows, Linux and Chrome OS only so Mac OS X users won’t be able to use it yet.
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Dev Channel Update - The Dev channel has been updated to 19.0.1036.7 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame
All
- Updated V8 - 3.9.4.0
- Fix: open incognito windows at exit created extra normal windows when the session was restored [r120554]
- Show spelling suggestions for misspelled words from the online spellchecker provided by Google (only after users opt into sending text to the service) (r120959).
- When translating a page, get the code and translation via HTTPS. (r120113)
Windows
- Fix a visual artifact when UI bubbles fade [r119916]
- Fix an infrequent crash on repaint [r120196]
- Fix 3D acceleration on computers with NVIDIA Optimus graphics [r120651]
- Use Google’s online spellchecker to identify misspelled words as well as provide suggestions, for pasted text only. (r120959).
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a page was closed while playing audio [r120749].
Linux
- Use Google’s online spellchecker to identify misspelled words as well as provide suggestions, for pasted text only. (r120959).
Known Issues
- Sub-dialogs do not work in Settings [Issue: 113505, et al].

