About Google Chrome

The main advantage of this browser is very simple.The browser user interface has a simple look and designed to give a wider vowing space.There is a Tab bar space and no menu and tool bar in the cluttering interface.

Some of the key features includes:

• Re opening of the closed tabs:You can do reopen the last 10tabs in the browser(Press Ctrl+Shift-T).You can keep doing this for the past 10tabs.Also a restore option that re opens the pages opened from the last closing of the screen(Tools>options>basics)
• Add on book marklets.Press CTrl+B.You can view the list of book marklets with chrome.
• Calculator and convertor feature.
• Almost all the key board short cuts are available with the browser.
• A good down load manager.
• Fast and Quick
• Private Browsing - Incognito Pages
• Has an advanced Google Chrome Task manager and memory statistics (about:memory)
• Good view-source:http://www.hp.com/ (View Source Option) with line number
• Doesn't save webpages (full) as .mht but saves it like the legacy IE way
• Has chrome-source (Inspect Element) option to examine every component on the page
• Has stolen "Duplicate Tab" option from opera but doesn't duplicate in the same window, instead opens a new Window
• http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html READS :

Concerns:

Experts feels that the Google chrome is a software mule and it is vulnerable to the software security threats.

A "software mule" is a computer program which embedded, and therefore is dependent on, code of many other programs and libraries.

The main reason for security threat is why because a software mule embeds the code of its "parents" programs and libraries, and therefore it inherits their genetic problems, also known as - software vulnerabilities.

If a security vulnerability was found in a program or a library that is part of the software mule, it makes the software mule in high probability of being vulnerable to this security too. The vendor of the software mule will need to deliver a patch for each and every fix that was the made for the embedded code. This will take time, and will put the software mule users at risk, because the vulnerability in the embedded program/library will be already publicly known.

People feel the chrome browser most likely to have Carpet bombing a vulnerability that was found in Apple Safari and was already fixed.

Google had taken some action on those vulnerabilities partially but not fully. They have added a check to make sure that the default download folder is not the user's desktop. This is a good security measure, but definitely not a full patch for this issue. The vulnerability can still be exploited for a remote code execution.