Among those rewarded, Google Chrome security team member Jerome – Forsythe (Jerome Kersey), said the researchers Sergey – Glazunov (Sergey Glazunov) the discovery of “high risk” vulnerabilities are $ 3,133 bonus, bonus amount topped the list.

There are three researchers were given $2,000, $1,370 and $1,000 bonus, in addition to the researchers of the 500-dollar prize. In order to find faults\bugs, Google paid a total of $ 9,970 in prize money for the Chrome 12 build and it remains the highest till date.

In these efforts, Chrome 12 browser has got lots of improvements with regard to the security, privacy, graphics capabilities. It also has malware checks put in while downloading files, visiting a website etc.. Chrome 12 also supports hardware-accelerated 3D CSS and so on.

As always – the update should be availaible automatically via the previous version or you can download it from http://google.com/chrome.

What’s more, with this new version there are some new improved features. For example, from now users will be able to synchronize bookmarks between computers using Chrome browser preferences, and also sync small information such as homepage, default language, etc..

The stable version supports HTML5 incorporated features such as drag and drop files, geolocation APIs … Now there is HTML5 does not mean that they have forgotten to Flash Player> Google Chrome will soon fully support Adobe Flash Player 10.1.

If you want to test Chrome geographic features, you can access using the HTML5, Geo-location API site. If you have pop-up window asks you if you are willing to submit their geographical location, then the description of geographical features then that means Chrome has already begun its work.

In the Windows 7 system, the user can activate the taskbar to open Chrome geographic features command.

It is reported that the new version of Developer Chrome also added a number of other features, most of the new features are for the Mac and Linux users. Mac version and Linux version of Chrome helps improve stability of the plug and form auto-fill feature.

Google has announced on its chrome developer blog, that it would be paying developers to report bugs in google chrome and firefox.

This is a new way of fixing and rewarding authorsdevelopers at the same time.

Any bug filed through the Chromium bug tracker (under the template “Security Bug”) will qualify for consideration. As this is an experimental program there are some guidelines one needs to follow, in order to get paid .

More information can be found on the Google Chrome Blog.

Google announced today the launch of the beta portal for Google Chrome extensions. Developers have already submitted some addons in recent weeks. The first extensions are only available for Windows and Linux, but Mac is coming soon. The gallery is currently taking over 300 extensions, some of Google itself,

What Google forgot to mention in its announcement about extensions is that they don’t work with the current stable version of Chrome. You’ll need to download a Chrome beta in order to get them to work.

Popular ones include Chromed Bird, a Twitter feed extension, Shareaholic, Torrent Downloader, and the Google Mail Checker. I tried out,Twitter feed extension and Torrent Downloader.

There are actually two steps:
- First you download the extension, then you click the Install button that automatically appears after the download is complete.

Once that is done, the extension immediately appears in the Chrome browser, right next to the address bar. Uninstalling is just as easy. There’s an Extension menu item under the Tools menu. It opens a list of installed extensions that you can disable or uninstall.

Here is the official screenshots of the Google Chrome OS below.

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With the release of Google Chrome 4.0.237.0 it includes support for scripts using Greasemonkey and it has been firmly integrated into the browser. Now to install scripts you don’t need a command line in Chrome. The User.js files automatically can be added as an extension.

For example: If you call one of the userscripts from userscripts.org Google Chrome will download the script and then open the same dialog as and when installing extensions. After confirmation, the script is installed and activated on Google chrome.

Note: This only works on Google Chrome version 4.0.237.0.

The Chrome Dev Channel has been updated with a crash and calendar fix for the Mac, Windows and Linux versions of the web browser.

Available immediately, Google Chrome version 4.0.223.11 for Mac OS X can be obtained from softpedia. Here is the link

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Google-Chrome.shtml

Google’s says:
“This release fixes a crash when running extensions like the Subscribe in Feed Reader sample,” the latest dev update, posted by Jonathan Conradt, engineering program manager, reads. “It also fixes a problem in Google Calendar where overlapping calendar items were invisible because they were being displayed with 0 width,”.

“This update is being released for Windows, Mac and Linux,” .

It’s finally managed to ink such a deal, with Sony. Google spokesperson Eitan Bencuya said the deal went into effect his summer. No details were given, such as financial terms (which I wouldn’t have expected), but not even the models that Chrome is installed on, either.

Internet Explorer’s market share continues to drop, but it still dominates the browser market. Some of that, however, is because the browser is integrated with Windows. According to Net Applications, in July Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has a 67.7 percent market share, followed by the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox, with 22.5 percent, and Apple Inc’s Safari, with 4 percent. Chrome lags in 4th with 2.59 percent.

Google’s pet project, Google chrome turns 1 year old. We would like to wish the chrome team congrats and chrome a very happy birthday!

Here are some of the achievements & useful info, till date:

- 51 developer releases, 21 beta releases or updates, and 15 stable releases or updates

- Over 20,600 bugs filed (4367 of them were duplicates, 3505 have been fixed, which leaves a whole lot left to go!)

- 11 external committers and bug editors, 46 external code contributors

- 50 Chrome Experiments

- 26 posts on the Google Chrome blog

- 12 Chrome Shorts, a collection of short films about Google Chrome

Go Chrome, And a very happy birthday again!!