Chrome for Android Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable channel. Chrome for Android 27.0.1453.90 contains a number of improvments including:

• Fullscreen on phones - Scroll down the page and the toolbar will disappear.
• Simpler searching - Searching from the omnibox will keep your search query visible in the omnibox, making it easier to edit, and show more on your search result page.
• Client-side certificate support - You can now access sites that require you to use a certificate and Chrome will allow you to select an installed certificate
• Tab history on tablets - Long press the browser back button to view your tab history
• And a ton of stability and performance fixes

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.20 for Chrome Frame, Mac, Linux, and Windows

This build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. 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.

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome

Stable Channel Release

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 27.0.1453.93 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including:

• Web pages load 5% faster on average
• chrome.syncFileSystem API
• Improved ranking of predictions, improved spell correction, and numerous fundamental improvements for Omnibox predictions. Please see the Help Center for more information on our updated policies.

Security fixes and rewards:

Please see the Chromium security page for more information. (Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix.)

This automatic update includes security fixes. We’d like to highlight the following fixes for various reasons (crediting external researchers, issuing rewards, or highlighting particularly interesting issues):

• [$1000] [235638] High CVE-2013-2837: Use-after-free in SVG. Credit to Sławomir Błażek.
• [$500] [235311] Medium CVE-2013-2838: Out-of-bounds read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler.
• [$1500] [230176] High CVE-2013-2839: Bad cast in clipboard handling. Credit to Jon of MWR InfoSecurity.
• [$1000] [230117] High CVE-2013-2840: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Nils of MWR InfoSecurity.
• [$1000] [227350] High CVE-2013-2841: Use-after-free in Pepper resource handling. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
• [$2000] [226696] High CVE-2013-2842: Use-after-free in widget handling. Credit to Cyril Cattiaux.
• [$1000] [222000] High CVE-2013-2843: Use-after-free in speech handling. Credit to Khalil Zhani.
• [$1000] [196393] High CVE-2013-2844: Use-after-free in style resolution. Credit to Sachin Shinde (@cons0ul).
• [$3133.7] [188092] [179522] [222136] [188092] High CVE-2013-2845: Memory safety issues in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.
• [$1000] [177620] High CVE-2013-2846: Use-after-free in media loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva.
• [$1000] [176692] High CVE-2013-2847: Use-after-free race condition with workers. Credit to Collin Payne.
• [$500] [176137] Medium CVE-2013-2848: Possible data extraction with XSS Auditor. Credit to Egor Homakov.
• [171392] Low CVE-2013-2849: Possible XSS with drag+drop or copy+paste. Credit to Mario Heiderich.

In addition, our ongoing internal security work was as usual responsible for a wide range of fixes:

• [241595] High CVE-2013-2836: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

Many of the above bugs were detected using AddressSanitizer.

This build also contains a new Adobe Flash build. You can find more information here.

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.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update for Chrome OS

The Beta channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.103 (Platform version: 3912.79.0) for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and stability improvements.

Release Highlights:

• Pepper Flash updated to 11.7.700.202
• Stability Fixes

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Josafat Garcia
Google Chrome

Beta Channel Update

The Beta channel has been updated to 27.0.1453.93 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Interested in switching release channels? Find out how. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Karen Grunberg
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 27.0.1453.90. This release contains a few new fixes including:

• 237253: Changing device orientation when trying to use 'Paste' on phone, makes the page unresponsive
• 237256: Half white background in tab-switcher
• 241237: "Google: <url>" displayed in the omnibox for yellow padlock URLs
• 237115: Dark overlay displayed after switching tabs
• Fix for some top crashes

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome

Flash Player Update

We are currently updating Flash Player to 11.7.700.202 for Windows and Mac to all Stable channel (Chrome 26) users.

If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug.

Anthony LaforgeGoogle Chrome

Dev Channel Update for Chrome OS

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.11 (Platform versions: 4100.7.0) for all platforms except Google Chromebook Pixel. This build contains a number of stability improvements.

Release Highlights:

• Fixed several issues where File Manager panes were displayed blank. (239152, 239155)
• Improved trackpad performance on Cr-48 systems (238778)
• Fix to allow formatting a USB drive from the File Manager (239120)
• Fix to allow viewing content of external storage (236743)
• Updated Pepper Flash version to 11.7.700.202-r4

Known Issues:

• With Acer C7 Chromebooks, when the system is connected to an external monitor and used in docked mode, the CPU usage goes to 100%. 

If you find new issues, please let us know by visiting our help site or filing a bug. Interested in switching channels? Find out how. You can submit feedback using ‘Report an issue...’ in the Chrome menu (3 horizontal bars in the upper right corner of the browser).

Danielle Drew
Google Chrome

Dev Channel Update

The Dev channel has been updated to 28.0.1500.11 for Chrome Frame, Mac, Linux, and Windows

This build addresses some known regressions and stability issues. 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.

Anthony Laforge
Google Chrome

Chrome Beta for Android

Chrome Beta for Android has been updated to 27.0.1453.85. This release contains new fixes including:

• 222030 : White bar appears above the on-screen keyboard
• 236667 : For long search queries, omnibox is displaying the end of the query instead of the beginning
• 239602 : When there is a yellow padlock, query in the omnibox should show padlock, google: query
• 232926: Facebook entire page is highlighted when menu is selected
• Fixes for a few top crashes

Known Issue:

• 237115: Dark overlay observed when switching tabs

A partial list of changes in this build is available in the SVN revision log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. More information about Chrome for Android is available on the Chrome site.

Jason Kersey
Google Chrome