Google Chrome 50 Released with 20 Security Bugfixes

[Jack]

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Google and Chrome users have reached their golden anniversay today, as the company announced the release of Chrome 50.

As this version launched just a few hours ago, we're still busy sifting through the changelog for all updates, so keep an eye out for a subsequent article that highlights Chrome 50's major features.

What we know about Google 50 already, is its list of security-related bugfixes, which the company has announced on its blog.

Security researchers pocketed $17,500 for Chrome 50's bugs
As Google engineers have revealed, Chrome 50 fixed 20 security issues, eight of which were reported by external researchers, while the rest were fixed internally by Google own staff working on the Chromium project.

For the bugs provided by third-party developers, Google paid rewards totaling $17,500 (€15,500). Back in February, Google paid $25,633.70 (€23,090.3) just for one security bug in Chrome 48.0.2564.116.

This doesn't mean that Chrome 50 didn't fix important security issues, but only means that these bugs didn't leverage unique or novel attack techniques, so they didn't receive high-value bounties.

Read more: Google Chrome 50 Released with 20 Security Bugfixes

 

[Deleted member 178]

Non-chromium based browsers can't compete with Chrome in term of security, they just can't afford such bugs bounty costs.

 

[kev216]

Maybe also worth to mention is that with the release of Chrome 50, from now on they don't support Windows Vista, Windows XP, OS X Mountain Lion and OS X Lion anymore. They annouced this a few times already that the support was going to be dropped but now it's official with this new release.

 

[Amiga500]

Non-chromium based browsers can't compete with Chrome in term of security, they just can't afford such bugs bounty costs.

They wont do because it is a different codebase so comparing chromium and non chromium code in terms of security is impossible.

 

[Deleted member 178]

They wont do because it is a different codebase so comparing chromium and non chromium code in terms of security is impossible.

chromium can operate in Appcontainer (like Edge), not so sure for others. Appcontainer is the only valid comparison point.

 

[Exterminator]

This also brings the end of support for XP & Vista and older OSx versions
Google Chrome No Longer Supports Windows XP, Vista, Old OS X Versions

 

[soccer97]

I hope this doesn't anger people - but for people using Windows 7 and above- shouldn't it provide better protection overall? Now they can move to a more modern codebase/not have to delay new features/fixes because of compatibility issues with XP and/or vista? I do see both sides of the issue. I imagine Mozilla is not terribly far behind. Shore up the browser security for the majority of users, and hopefully, the proliferation of malware will at least slightly decrease. When they have less platforms they must make builds for, I would think that they have that time to apply that extra effort/review to the releases for currently supported OS's.

 

[Amiga500]

Is there any benefit to using chrome on linux.?
Most people download from the repositries so download scanning would be redundant.
Linux already sandboxes the kernel also.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Is there any benefit to using chrome on linux.?

Chrome on Linux is even safest than the Windows version. Just for that i would use it.

 

[wrangal349]

I like Google Chrome! This update will work without any problems for Windows 7 ?

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

I don't mind Chrome on mobile but for Desktop I have used Firefox for so long I can't remember ever "not using it".
I may give 50 a peek to see what it offers though, and what changes are afoot.
I don't hate Chrome I just don't like the resources it pulls.
PeAcE

 

[Deleted member 178]

I don't mind Chrome on mobile but for Desktop I have used Firefox for so long I can't remember ever "not using it".
I may give 50 a peek to see what it offers though, and what changes are afoot.
I don't hate Chrome I just don't like the resources it pulls.
PeAcE

The resources it pulls is a feature , Chrome open several tabs isolated from each other; so if one crash , it won't impact the others. Now even FF is realizing that and implement it , they call it electolysis : Electrolysis - MozillaWiki.

Chromium Blog: Multi-process Architecture

Multi-process Firefox's will use up to 20% more RAM initially - gHacks Tech News

 

[generalwu]

Patiently awaiting for the update for my Chromebook.