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Still considered the world’s favorite browser, Google Chrome does not cease to amaze its millions of users with every new version while attracting new ones at the same time. Being a Google product, Chrome syncs perfectly with all your Google accounts and products, allowing you to access all your data virtually from anywhere. Its privacy and accessibility features are also among the best available out there.
Taking into account that both Opera and the new Microsoft Edge are both based on Google’s Chromium technology, it is safe to say that it has proven to be the fastest and most reliable Web browsing technology you can use. The devil is, as usual, in the detail. The technology behind them may be exactly the same, but both in terms of browser design and resource management, there are big differences among all Chromium-based browsers.
For obvious reasons, Chrome beats all of them when it comes to Google integration, and this platitude is of a great importance when we ask ourselves this question – who is not connected to Google in one way or another? Therefore, having your browser synchronized with your e-mail account and all your cloud-based data in a simple, transparent, and straightforward way is of great relevance to many users. Hence its growing popularity.
The new version of Google Chrome hasn’t changed significantly neither visually nor functionally when compared to previous ones. And that is both good and bad. Good because regular Chrome users will be glad to find the privacy and security features they all know and love, as well as the Incognito browsing mode, the myriad of extensions available and, of course, the Google search engine in all its glory. And bad because this browser still has the dubious honor of being (also) the leader among all resource-hungry browsers. And this is not a Chromium-related issue, as other Chromium-based browsers display a clearly better resource management policy.
Google Chrome hasn’t stopped topping the charts of the “Best Browser of the Year” lists during the last few years, but other contenders are getting closer, especially in terms of memory management. If ever this browser manages to sort out this issue, no other contender will dare to dispute its domination.
v63.0 [Sep 22, 2017]
This update includes 37 security fixes.
[$10500][778505] Critical CVE-2017-15407: Out of bounds write in QUIC. Reported by Ned Williamson on 2017-10-26
[$6337][762374] High CVE-2017-15408: Heap buffer overflow in PDFium. Reported by Ke Liu of Tencent's Xuanwu LAB on 2017-09-06
[$5000][763972] High CVE-2017-15409: Out of bounds write in Skia. Reported by Anonymous on 2017-09-11
[$5000][765921] High CVE-2017-15410: Use after free in PDFium. Reported by Luật Nguyễn (@l4wio) of KeenLab, Tencent on 2017-09-16
[$5000][770148] High CVE-2017-15411: Use after free in PDFium. Reported by Luật Nguyễn (@l4wio) of KeenLab, Tencent on 2017-09-29
[$3500][727039] High CVE-2017-15412: Use after free in libXML. Reported by Nick Wellnhofer on 2017-05-27
[$500][766666] High CVE-2017-15413: Type confusion in WebAssembly. Reported by Gaurav Dewan(@007gauravdewan) of Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd. on 2017-09-19
[$3337][765512] Medium CVE-2017-15415: Pointer information disclosure in IPC call. Reported by Viktor Brange of Microsoft Offensive Security Research Team on 2017-09-15
[$2500][779314] Medium CVE-2017-15416: Out of bounds read in Blink. Reported by Ned Williamson on 2017-10-28
[$2000][699028] Medium CVE-2017-15417: Cross origin information disclosure in Skia . Reported by Max May on 2017-03-07
[$1000][765858] Medium CVE-2017-15418: Use of uninitialized value in Skia. Reported by Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs on 2017-09-15
[$1000][780312] Medium CVE-2017-15419: Cross origin leak of redirect URL in Blink. Reported by Jun Kokatsu (@shhnjk) on 2017-10-31
[$500][777419] Medium CVE-2017-15420: URL spoofing in Omnibox. Reported by WenXu Wu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab on 2017-10-23
[$TBD][774382] Medium CVE-2017-15422: Integer overflow in ICU. Reported by Yuan Deng of Ant-financial Light-Year Security Lab on 2017-10-13
[$500][778101] Low CVE-2017-15423: Issue with SPAKE implementation in BoringSSL. Reported by Greg Hudson on 2017-10-25
[$N/A][756226] Low CVE-2017-15424: URL Spoof in Omnibox. Reported by Khalil Zhani on 2017-08-16
[$N/A][756456] Low CVE-2017-15425: URL Spoof in Omnibox. Reported by xisigr of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab on 2017-08-17
[$N/A][756735] Low CVE-2017-15426: URL Spoof in Omnibox. Reported by WenXu Wu of Tencent's Xuanwu Lab on 2017-08-18
[$N/A][768910] Low CVE-2017-15427: Insufficient blocking of JavaScript in Omnibox. Reported by Junaid Farhan (fb.me/junaid.farhan.54) on 2017-09-26