The U.S. Internet giant Google equips its browser again with a new version number. Until mid-October was 7 at the Chrome launch , approximately six weeks later, now follows a further update in the form of Chrome 8th A preview version of Chrome 8 stood since early November in the Chrome beta available for download channel. Google adheres to the current publication amazingly accurate in his self-defined update frequency: Every six weeks, a Chrome update is available.

The stable version of Chrome 8.0.552.215 makes considerable progress in terms of stability and security since the developers have 800 bugs fixed on. Among them are several high security risks classified as vulnerabilities that could crash the browser to other things. Details of the vulnerabilities are stuffed into the Google Chrome release notes .The discovery of the many bugs to thank Google and the help of supporters from the Chrome Community. The U.S. company pays discoverers of serious bugs and security holes, a reward of up to $ 1,000.

As new features is an integrated PDF reader as standard with on board and activated. The PDF viewer is embedded in a so-called "sandbox" to prevent attacks should be on the outside of the system. Users who use Chrome already receive the updated software automatically. About Google Site manual is also the download of Chrome 8 for the operating system , Mac OS X and Linux platforms Windows.