Google patches 13 Chrome bugs, adds extensions to Windows

Google today added support for extensions and bookmark synchronization to the production version of Chrome for Windows. The new release also patched 13 security vulnerabilities in the browser, six of which Google ranked as "high" in its threat scoring system.

Although a beta of Chrome in December 2009 included support for both extensions and bookmark sync, this is the first time that the features have appeared in the "stable" build channel, a term Google uses in place of "final." Google also touted the growth of its extension gallery, which now has more than 1,500 add-ons, a five-fold increase over the 300 available at its debut last month.

Only Windows' stable edition supports extensions and sync; Linux users must use the beta channel build for the same features, while Mac owners have to drop all the way down into the least reliable version, dubbed the "developer" build by Google, to access extensions.