Chrome 17 tweaks speed, download security

Chrome 17 tweaks speed, download security

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As revealed in the Chrome 17 beta version Chrome's safe browsing
technology will now scan downloads as well as Web sites. It looks for known malware files, and it analyzes installation files starting with Windows-based EXE and MSI. Google hasn't clarified if the scan will later include other Windows-based file types or installers from

Mac

and Linux operating systems. If a file is suspected of being malicious, meaning that it doesn't match a whitelist, Chrome will check it against Google's search index to see if the site you're downloading it from hosts a high number of known malicious downloads. If it determines the download to be unsafe, Chrome will barf up a red warning page.

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Nice update, even quicker than before. And still the only browser that renders pages correctly 99.9% of the time!