The Chrome prize is only the latest in a string of incentives from Google for anyone who can demonstrate security flaws in its products.
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The anticipated add-on, along with similar tools already included in the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft IE 9 browsers, leaves Google Chrome as the only major browser provider not to offer a do-not-track feature.
At the annual CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver last March, the year-old Chrome was the only browser left standing after stalwarts like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Apple's Safari had been hacked to pieces Safari in literally seconds by security experts.
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At the same time, the offline access only works in the Chrome browser.
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So far, these are the only two major vendors supporting Chrome-based notebooks.
First, we have a large number of readers who access our site from Safari browsers (currently the surveys only work with Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer browsers).
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Google will benefit because it is attacking the market not only with Android but also with Chrome.
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If you want to invest in photography your best plays are smart phone suppliers Apple, and Google for not only the Android software but the Chrome apps that are being used to photoshop images right inside browser windows.
Google also developed a new operating system called Chrome OS that is derived from its browser technology and designed to run only Web-based software.
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Announced over the weekend, encrypted chat service Cryptocat will soon be accessible only by downloading a local browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.
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Adobe only started caring about high-profile titles when Angry Birds was released for Google Chrome using HTML5, showcasing a competing technology and exposing their vulnerability.
The Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code (which we won't reproduce here) apparently only works on Samsung phones running Touchwiz, and only if you are directed to the dodgy destination while inside the stock browser (rather than Chrome, for example).
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