Chrome - Google Web Browser

[JohnC]

http://www.google.com/chrome/

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favourite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favourite web applications.

[tjs]

Two 'exploits' already disclosed.

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6353
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6355

Be careful out there...
TJS

[Orac]

The auto-suggest feature of Google's new Chrome browser does more than just help users get where they are going. It will also give Google a wealth of information on what people are doing on the Internet besides searching.

Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter.

What's more, Google has every intention of retaining some of that data even after it provides the promised suggestions. A Google representative told CNET News that the company plans to store about 2 percent of that data--and plans to store it along with the Internet Protocol address of the computer that typed it.

Full story from news.cnet.com


Also from an article from, The Register, Carpetbomb bug tarnishes Google Chrome Apple patched the vulnerability with Safari v3.1.2, but the underlying software behind Chrome is based on older code, hence the vulnerability.

[sowhat-x]

Thanks Orac - and here's the poc as well... 
http://aviv.raffon.net/2008/09/03/GoogleMule.aspx