Download Google Chrome 1.0.154.46

Google has released an update to its Chrome web browser in the form of version 1.0.154.46. The new version can here as a web installer for Windows XP and Windows Vista and takes up 500 kilobytes of disk space. Chrome opens each tab in its own process, which can be used as a desktop application. Furthermore, the web browser is equipped with its own Javascript engine. The Chrome 1.0.154.46 release notes look like this:

Google Chrome’s Beta and Stable channels have been updated to 1.0.154.46. (Note, we won’t have a different release for the Beta channel until we have something Beta-worthy come out of the Dev channel in February.) This release fixes issues with two popular webmail providers:

• Sending mail from Yahoo! Mail works again.
• Windows Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix, we’re deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with mail.live.com.

If you’ve been using the –user-agent switch to use Hotmail, you can remove the switch from your shortcuts with this release.Release Notes: 1.0.154.46

• [r8418] Fix pages failing to load with ‘waiting for cache…’ message. (Issue 4769)
• [r8443] Mitigate Adobe Reader Plugin Open Parameters Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CVE-2007-0048, CVE-2007-0045) by blocking requests for javascript: URLs in NPN_GetURL* calls. (Internal issue 1543405)
• [r8445] Fix ability to send mail with Yahoo! Mail (Issue 1058, 5852)
• [r8429] Mark the SECOM Trust root certificates for EV (Issue 4985)
• [r8511] Fix to not download outdated SafeBrowsing lists (Issue 5597)
• [r8516] Fix some popups that were blocked even when the user requested them (Issue 6367)
• [r8522] Fix a timing issue that prevented Gears from starting properly sometimes (Issue 4219)
• [r8524] SECURITY: Fix bad same-origin check that could lead to one frame being able to read or write the location of other frames (Issue 6264)
• [r8529] Filter out Set-Cookie responses into XMLHttpRequest responses.
• [r8781] Add support for UA spoofing, and spoof Safari’s UA string when loading URLs from *.mail.live.com (to fix hotmail). (Issue 4111)