Chrome 67 to Counter Spectre on Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS via Site Isolation
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Chrome 67 to Counter Spectre on Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS via Site Isolation
The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, discovered earlier this year, caught everyone off guard including hardware and software companies. Since then, several vendors have patched them, and today, Google Chrome implemented measures to protect the browser against Spectre. The exploit uses the a feature found in most CPUs to access parts of memory that should be off-limits to a piece of code and potentially discover the values stored in that memory. Effectively, this means that untrustworthy code may be able to read any memory in its process’s address space. In theory, a website could use such an attack to steal information from other websites via malicious JavaScript code. Google Chrome is implementing a technique known as site isolation to prevent any future Spectre-based attacks from leaking data.
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Google Chrome is getting a Material Design revamp – here’s how to test the new features
Google has been promising a Material Design revamp of its desktop Chrome web browser for quite some time – and now we have our first look.
An update to the experimental Chrome Canary browser on Windows, Linux and Mac, offers a preview of what we can expect when Google builds the changes into the main browser later this year.
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Google Chrome Gets A Big Material Design Makeover, Here's How To Try It On Windows, Linux And macOS
Google's dominate Chrome web browser is set to receive a big Material Design makeover later this year. However, if you want to give a try right now, you can do so by downloading the latest build of Chrome Canary. For those not in the know, Canary is the developmental branch of Chrome where new features are tested before they roll out widely to the public.
As you can see in the image below, this is a total revamp of the browser, with a completely new address bar and look for the tabs interface. Tabs have a more rounded shape and colors have been refreshed through the UI.
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Chrome 67 features Site Isolation to counter Spectre on Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS
Following the disclosure of Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities earlier this year, the entire tech industry has been working to secure devices. In the current stable version of Chrome, Google has widely rolled out a security feature called Site Isolation to protect desktop browsers against Spectre.
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