Chrome Version 4.0 for Windows released

Google has announced version 4.0 of its browser Chrome. Available for Windows only, it fixes 13 bugs and improves synchronization of extensions.
Replacing the beta last December, the final version of Chrome 4.0 fixes a total of 13 security vulnerabilities and provides better synchronization tools. Among the vulnerabilities, six were classified among the “high threat system” and four of them had even been withdrawn from listing errors Chrome official, supposedly to prevent hackers from exploiting this information. This is explained Anthony Laforge, product manager for Chrome: “Some bugs are kept secret until a majority of our users to be confronted.”.

Another improvement of this final version lies in the synchronization of bookmarks and extensions, a useful improvement to the views of the 1500 add-ons available for Chrome. According to Ian Fette, production manager at Google, this version also benefits from Web 2.0 services, from technology HTML5 and JavaScript, such as facilitating online storage and therefore, collaboration. “We have also greatly improved the speed of the browser,” said Nick Baum, another product manager on the official blog of Chrome. “The performance has increased by 42% since last version, and 400% since the first version of Chrome released last year.