Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Google’s Chrome team recently announced Chrome 21 as the next stable channel for their browser for Mac and Linux, as well as 21.0.1180.60 for Windows and Chrome Frame.
Chrome 21 Features:
Chrome Stable release allows users to manage several permissions, aimed to help websites and web apps to access your camera and microphone. This feature supports sites with media functionality, such as video conferencing. Such sites or web apps can request your camera and microphone for several expected actions including Allow, Deny. The new Chrome "Options" tab lets you control and define which sites can access your PC’s camera and microphone.
With this update, Chrome also delivers the getUserMedia API, which allows web apps to access a user's camera and microphone without using any external browser plugin such as Flash or Silverlight. It has been already implemented in WebRTC, which is a free and open source project designed to deliver Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities to the web browser. The WebRTC API is available for web developers in the ChromeDevChannel as a preview. Sketchbooks experiment also uses getUserMedia, which takes a picture of your face with the help of a webcam, converts it to a line drawing, and sends it to a robot in the Science Museum in London.
Fixed Issues:
1. Cross-process interference in renderers on Linux.
2. Missing re-prompt to user upon excessive downloads.
3. Overly broad file access granted after drag+drop.
4. Off-by-one read in GIF decoder.
5. Various lower severity issues in the PDF viewer.
6. Integer overflows in PDF viewer.
7. Use-after-free with bad object linkage in PDF.
8. webRequest can interfere with the Chrome Web Store.
9. Leak of pointer values to WebUI renderers.
10. Use-after-free in PDF viewer.
11. Crash in tab handling on Linux.
12. Out-of-bounds access when clicking in date picker.
