Chrome 19 syncs tabs on all devices

The tabs you open on Chrome 19 in your computer will automatically "run" on Chrome 19 on other devices like phones and tablets. Chrome 19 also patched 20 vulnerabilities.

The most obvious change of Chrome 19, announced on May 15, 2012, is the ability to support tab synchronization (tags). Like syncing bookmarks, passwords, apps and add-ons (extensions) already available, open tabs will now appear the same on all Chrome versions on multiple platforms (including Android). , if they link to the same Google account.

With Chrome 19, the tabs you open on your computer will also appear on your mobile device thanks to the synchronization mechanism.
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The tab synchronization feature will not be enabled for all users immediately, but will be "gradually deployed in the coming weeks".

Actually, this feature is not breakthrough. Mozilla has been able to synchronize tabs since Firefox 4 (launched more than a year ago) and many third party extensions (such as Xmarks) can sync tabs open across multiple browsers from different providers. .

Chrome 19 also includes patches for 20 security holes: 8 " high-risk " ranked vulnerabilities - assessing Google's second serious threat, 7 " marked " vulnerabilities, and 5 holes labeled "low risk".

Google paid $ 7,500 in bonuses for discovering errors for six researchers because it discovered nine security holes, and $ 9,000 for six other researchers reported a number of previous bugs.

You can download Chrome 19 for Windows , Mac OS X and Linux . The installed browsers will be updated automatically.