Google has patched 11 security holes in Chrome as Apple released Safari 5, the latest version of its WebKit rival.
The patch for Chrome 5.0.375.70 on Linux, Mac and Windows is the first fix for Google’s browser since the stable versions of the Mac and Linux editions were announced.
The update followed Monday’s Safari 5 from Apple that patched a record 48 vulnerabilities, most of them on WebKit – also used in Chrome. It’s the first major update to Apple’s browser in a year.
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Google has added the newly open-sourced VP8 video codec to the latest developer-channel build of its Chrome browser. The codec will be used with the new HTML5 standard to embed videos directly in to the browser, without such need for a flash plug-in.
Google acquired the VP8 codec as part of its $124.6 million purchase of video compression outfit On2 Technologies this year in spring. You can get the latest developer snapshot of Google Chrome and read more about the codec integration on the Google Chrome dev channel: located here