Google Rectifies Bugs In Chrome, Challenges

Google has rectified nine bugs found in Chrome and upgraded the browser to version 9. ‎Additionally, it has supported WebGL, an API to accelerate 3-D graphics without having ‎to plug-in; introduced Google Instant capable of displaying search results even as a user ‎starts typing; and completed work on the Chrome Web Store, an online market for ‎browser based applications.‎

The nine issues debugged in Chrome 9.0.597.84 vary from many crash-able bugs to those ‎described by Google as ‘race condition in audio handling’, a typically critical issue. Two ‎of them classified as ‘high’ and the rest ‘low.’‎

The audio handling race condition bug was vulnerable to let Chrome’s sandbox to escape. ‎Earlier Google had fixed 16 bugs found in Chrome, including one related to Adobe ‎featuring a similar sandbox-escape flaw.‎

Chrome is the only known browser designed to protect system processes in a sandbox, to ‎prevent malware from intruding into an application either to infect the computer or steal ‎data from the hard drive. Google is conducting contests, challenging researchers ‎to exploit chrome and is willing to offer the successful candidates prizes for breaking the ‎code, in order to detect and correct flaws at an early stage. Google has taken a vow to refresh Chrome every six to eight weeks.‎