Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 Stable Released

Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 has been updated to the Stable channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame platforms. This build contains a number of stability fixes, including an issue with launch system level chrome after self destructing user-level chrome on Windows 8.

This version also fixes one critical-risk security vulnerability, three high-risk security vulnerabilities and two medium-risk security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition.

In addition, Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 has a new Adobe Flash version v11.5.31.5. More details can be found here.

For Chrome 23 on Windows, Google enabled GPU-accelerated video decoding by default. Dedicated graphics chips draw far less power than a computer's CPU, so using GPU-accelerated video decoding while watching videos can increase battery life significantly.

You’ll also find it much easier to view and control any website’s permissions for capabilities such as geolocation, pop-ups, and camera/microphone access. This saves you from having to dig through settings pages to find these permissions. Now, simply click on the page/lock icon next to a website’s address in the omnibox to see a list of permissions and tweak them as you wish.

Chrome 23 also includes an option to send a "do not track" request to websites and web services. By the way the effectiveness of such requests is dependent on how websites and services respond, so Google is working with others on a common way to respond to these requests in the future.

Install Google Chrome Stable
To install Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 Stable please visit http://www.google.com/chrome website.

Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97

Note: If you’re running the Windows 8 Enterprise, you’ll be able to try Chrome in Windows 8 Modern Style mode by setting it as your default browser.

Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 (Modern Style)

What's new in Google Chrome 23.0.1271.97 Stable? (December 11, 2012)
This release contains the following updates:

• Some texts in a Website Settings popup are trimmed (Issue: 159156)
• Linux: [input] selection renders white text on white bg in apps  (Issue: 158422)
• Some plugins stopped working (Issue: 159896)
• Windows 8: Unable to launch system level chrome after self destructing user-level chrome (Issue: 158632)

Security fixes:

• [$1500] [158204] CVE-2012-5139: Use-after-free with visibility events. Credit to Chamal de Silva. (High)
• [$1000] [159429] CVE-2012-5140: Use-after-free in URL loader. Credit to Chamal de Silva. (High)
• [160456] CVE-2012-5141: Limit Chromoting client plug-in instantiation. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Jüri Aedla). (Medium)
• [160803] CVE-2012-5142: Crash in history navigation. Credit to Michal Zalewski of Google Security Team. (Critical)
• [160926] CVE-2012-5143: Integer overflow in PPAPI image buffers. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar). (Medium)
• [$2000] [161639] CVE-2012-5144: Stack corruption in AAC decoding. Credit to pawlkt. (High)

References:
Google Chrome Stable Channel Update
Google Chrome Blog