Google has released an update to version 27 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome is available in three different versions: stable, beta and dev, and this time the stable version has been updated. New in version 27 is the chrome.syncFileSystem API, which gives apps the ability to store specific data on Google Drive for availability on different clients and platforms. In addition, pages load on average five percent faster and improvements have been made to the spell checker and Omnibox. In addition, there are of course the necessary security updates and bug fixes. The changelog for this update also looks like this:
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:
- [249335] Medium CVE-2013-2866: Clickjacking in the Flash plug-in.
This build also has fixes to the following issues:
- Multiple flash movies on one page not playing [Issue: 243290]
- Arc rendering bug in canvas [Issue: 243996]
- Select box with Multiple option fires Onchange event on scroll [Issue: 244406]
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.
| Version number | 27.0.1453.116 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8 |
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| License type | Freeware |