Google pushed a new stable version of Chrome which adds some notable features and fixes, called patches security holes on the Web Browser.
Chrome’s 16 major features to the web brwoser is multi-user support. Google by default added the cloud print ability for Chrome 16. From within one account in the host operating system, Chrome can now support distinct users with different preferences, themes, add-ons, and synced items. New user accounts can be created and synchronized with different Google accounts in the browser preferences, and a new icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen allows for quick user switching – you can have multiple accounts open simultaneously in different windows.
Google has released the sixteenth version of Chrome into the stable channel, introducing the ability to create and synchronize multiple profiles for a single instance of the popular web browser. The feature will be particularly useful for anyone who shares their computer with others, so that they can be able to keep their bookmarks, applications, settings and extensions, as well as history seperately from everone
s eyes.
In order to create a new user profile, simply navigate to prefrences > Personal stuff and just click on “Add New User”. The New instance of Chrome will appear with a badge and a random name that can be edited to your wish. A clickable label in the top-right corner of your browser windows will show which account is currently in use and clicking on the label enables users to switch between accounts.
From Google Chrome blog:
Keep in mind that adding new users to Chrome isn’t intended to secure your data against other people using your computer, since it just takes a few clicks to switch between users. We’re providing this functionality as a quick and simple user interface convenience for people who are already sharing Chrome on the same computer today. To truly protect your data from being seen by others, please use the built-in user accounts on your operating system of choice.
Apart from that, adding support for multi profiles this latest release of Chrome finally addresses 15 high- and medium-risk vulnerabilities. The high-risk security flaws include an URL bar spoofing bug, use-after-free errors, out of bounds writes in the V8 JavaScript engine and a buffer overflow in PDF font handling. As part of its Chromium Security Rewards program, Google paid external researchers a total of $6,000 for reporting the bugs.
The one new feature in the upgrade that Google called out was multi-user synchronization of bookmarks, passwords and apps. You can learn more about signing in to Chrome at google.com/chrome/signingin.
Download: Google Chrome 16.0.912.63 for Windows
Download: Chrome 16 for Mac OS X
Download: Google Chrome 16 for Linux
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