Today Google Chromium Team promoted Chrome 26 to stable release channel. This means this browser now gets pushed out via Chrome's auto-update mechanism and everyone with auto-updates enabled will get this browser silently installed. We just added this browser to Browserling's cross-browser testing cloud and you can already start testing your JavaScript code, web designs and webapps in this Chrome version 26.

Web test in Chrome 26

Try Chrome 26 in Browserling now!

What's new in Chrome 26 for Users?

  • Improved spell checker - better grammar and homonym checking.
  • Added desktop shortcuts for multiple users (profiles) on Windows.
  • Implemented asynchronous DNS resolver on Mac and Linux.
  • Autofill and password sync (Android).
  • Performance and stability improvements (Android).

What's new in Chrome 26 for Developers?

Chrome 26 adds HTML <template> Element. HTML template element allows creating fragments of inert HTML as a prototype for stamping out DOM.

What security issues were fixed in Chrome 26?

  • CVE-2013-0916: Use-after-free in Web Audio. Credit to Atte Kettunen.
  • CVE-2013-0917: Out-of-bounds read in URL loader. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).
  • CVE-2013-0918: Do not navigate dev tools upon drag and drop. Credit to Vsevolod Vlasov of the Chromium development community.
  • CVE-2013-0919: Use-after-free with pop-up windows in extensions. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Mustafa Emre Acer).
  • CVE-2013-0920: Use-after-free in extension bookmarks API. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Mustafa Emre Acer).
  • CVE-2013-0921: Ensure isolated web sites run in their own processes.
  • CVE-2013-0922: Avoid HTTP basic auth brute force attempts. Credit to t3553r.
  • CVE-2013-0923: Memory safety issues in the USB Apps API. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Mustafa Emre Acer).
  • CVE-2013-0924: Check an extension's permissions API usage again file permissions. Credit to Benjamin Kalman of the Chromium development community.
  • CVE-2013-0925: Avoid leaking URLs to extensions without the tabs permissions. Credit to Michael Vrable of Google.
  • CVE-2013-0926: Avoid pasting active tags in certain situations. Credit to Subho Halder, Aditya Gupta, and Dev Kar of xys3c

Happy cross-browser testing in Chrome 26!