Google Chrome 25 released

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Version 25.0.1364.97 of Google’s Chrome web browser was announced yesterday.

The new version includes several security and other bug fixes, as well as some new features for web developers and voice recognition.

No mention of Java is made in the announcement linked above, but presumably the most recent Java security fixes found their way into this Chrome release.

Starting with this version, Chrome extension updates are no longer installed ‘silently’. This is a welcome improvement in security.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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