Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 Stable released

Google Chrome Stable Update
Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 has been released to the Stable channel and Beta channel for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms. This update is the first Stable release of the Google Chrome 18. Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 Stable contains a number of new features including faster and fancier graphics. In addition, this release includes fixes for nine security issues as listed in What's new in Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 Stable section.

This version also contains the new version of Adobe Flash Player plug-in.

Google Chrome 18 contains some really great improvements including GPU accelerating 2D Canvas, and enabling 3D content for older GPUs. For most Windows and Mac users, Google've enabled GPU-accelerated rendering of 2D Canvas content, so that canvas-based games and animations run faster and feel smoother. You can go to chrome://gpu to see which features are being accelerated

Google Chrome 18 is now able to display 3D content via SwiftShader, a software rasterizer Google licensed from TransGaming, Inc. Although SwiftShader won’t perform as well as a real GPU, it will be an improvement for many of our users on older operating systems such as Windows XP.

Overview
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. It has one box for everything: Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages. Will give you thumbnails of your top sites, access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab. Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.

Install Google Chrome
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Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142

What's new in Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 Stable (March 28, 2012)
Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142 contains a number of new features and updates, including:

• Enabled GPU-accelerated rendering of 2D Canvas content.
• Added support 3D content for older GPUs.

Security fixes and rewards:

• [$500] [109574] CVE-2011-3058: Bad interaction possibly leading to XSS in EUC-JP. Credit to Masato Kinugawa. (Medium)
• [$500] [112317] CVE-2011-3059: Out-of-bounds read in SVG text handling. Credit to Arthur Gerkis. (Medium)
• [$500] [114056] CVE-2011-3060: Out-of-bounds read in text fragment handling. Credit to miaubiz. (Medium)
• [116398] CVE-2011-3061: SPDY proxy certificate checking error. Credit to Leonidas Kontothanassis of Google. (Medium)
• [116524] CVE-2011-3062: Off-by-one in OpenType Sanitizer. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk of the Google Security Team. (High)
• [117417] CVE-2011-3063: Validate navigation requests from the renderer more carefully. Credit to kuzzcc, Sergey Glazunov, PinkiePie and scarybeasts (Google Chrome Security Team). (Low)
• [$1000] [117471] CVE-2011-3064: Use-after-free in SVG clipping. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG. (High)
• [$1000] [117588] CVE-2011-3065: Memory corruption in Skia. Credit to Omair. (High)
• [$500] [117794] CVE-2011-3057: Invalid read in v8. Credit to Christian Holler. (Medium)

The bugs [112317], [114056] and [117471] were detected using AddressSanitizer.

Source: Google Chrome Releases