Google announced the new version of Chrome that is Google Chrome 17
into the beta channel by improving two of the browser's key aspects
that is speed and security. The first major change in version 17 is
that the ability for pages to start loading in the background before a
user has even finished typing a URL into the Omnibox address and search
bar.
"If
the URL auto-completes to a site you're very likely to visit, Chrome
will begin to prerender the page," explained Dominic Hamon, a software
engineer at Google, while announcing the browser update. The
pre-rendering makes the full site show up almost instantly, according to
Google.
Along with speed
and security Google introduced a new extension to its Safe Browsing
technology which is capable to safeguard the users against malicious
downloads by analysing executable files, including Windows .exe &
.msi files, for known malware. this also helps the users incase any kind
of Anti-virus software issues.Chrome will issue a warning incase if a
certain file appears to be malicious and will also alert the user if a
file is downloaded from a website with a poor reputation for hosting
malware-infected files.
This protection targets the
"social engineering" type of threat, such as the common fake anti-virus
product being offered online, but it's still up to the user to proceed
with the download or discard it option. The database of known malware is
relatively small for now but should grow rapidly as the feature moves
into the stable release's.
A number of other minor changes
and the usual slew of bug fixes are also included in Chrome 17 beta
version. Additionally, Google updated the browser's Stable channel to
version 16.0.912.75, closing three high risk security holes. Click on
the links below to download the latest stable or beta versions of
Chrome.
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