Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google announced that latest stable version 6.0 is of its Chrome browser is now available. The first stable Windows version of Chrome was first released on December 11, 2008. Several months earlier, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its V8 JavaScript engine, as an open source project entitled Chromium.
"Since Chrome’s first beta launch for Windows, we’ve brought our Mac and Linux versions up to speed, and continued to make the browser faster, simpler, and safer across all three platforms," said product manager Brian Rakowski on 
the Google Chrome blog. "We’ve also introduced a boatload of features, including a more customizable New Tab page, browser themes, side-by-side view, password manager, better privacy controls, built-in Adobe Flash Player, Autofill, automatic translation, HTML5 capabilities and synchronization of various settings such as bookmarks, themes, extensions and browser preferences - just to name a few."
With a market share of 7.5 percent in August 2010, Chrome is now the third most used browser behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. Google says that about 70 million users choose Chrome over other browsers. The new version patches 14 security vulnerabilities, including six that have been rated "high priority."
"Behind the scenes, we continue to extend the security features that help you browse the web more safely," says Rakowski. "This includes Chrome’s Safe Browsing technology - which serves as a warning system if you’re about to visit a site suspected of phishing or hosting malware; Chrome’s auto-update mechanism - which helps ensure that the browser is always up-to-date with the latest security updates; and the browser’s ‘sandbox’ - an added layer of protection which prevents malicious code on an exploited website from infecting your computer."
Users can download the latest version for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 here. The site provides links to download Chrome for the Linux and Mac platforms.
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