{"id":4317,"date":"2012-03-30T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.intego.com\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2012-12-12T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:57:13","slug":"google-chrome-18-arrives-brining-nine-security-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/google-chrome-18-arrives-brining-nine-security-fixes\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome 18 Arrives, Bringing Nine Security Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you read that right: it&#8217;s Google Chrome 18 already. It was just a week ago that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/chrome-17-update-fixes-8-security-issues\/\">Google released Chrome 17<\/a>. This new release <a href=\"http:\/\/googlechromereleases.blogspot.fr\/2012\/03\/stable-channel-release-and-beta-channel.html\">patches nine vulnerabilities<\/a>, none of them critical. It also contains the latest version of Adobe Flash, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/adobe-releases-flash-player-11-2-with-fixes-for-critical-security-issues\/\">we mentioned a few days ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This new release also features hardware acceleration, speeding up the browser. You can find out what type of hardware acceleration your Mac supports by entering <b>chrome:\/\/gpu<\/b> in Chrome&#8217;s address bar, and pressing Return. <\/p>\n<p>Chrome updates automatically, so if you have the browser already, it will be updated. If not, you can download Chrome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has released version 18 of the company&#8217;s Chrome web browser, featuring security fixes and new hardware acceleration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[33,38,60,119],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-security-privacy","tag-browser","tag-chrome","tag-google","tag-security-update"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Chrome 18 Arrives, Bringing Nine Security Fixes  - The Mac Security Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google has released version 18 of the company&#039;s Chrome web browser, featuring security fixes and new hardware acceleration.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/mac-security-blog\/google-chrome-18-arrives-brining-nine-security-fixes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Chrome 18 Arrives, Bringing Nine Security Fixes  - 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