Google Offers A $1,337 Bounty on Chrome Bugs
Google Offers A $1,337 Bounty on Chrome Bugs
Posted 01/31/2010 at 7:03pm
| by Justin Kerr
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Google has been waging a very public war against IE6, but it would all seem a bit hypocritical if similar vulnerabilities were also found in Chrome. As a preventative measure, Google is offering up anywhere from $500-$1337 to any user who finds and reports a flaw using its Chromium Bug Tracker forums.
The initiative is vaguely similar to a program being offered by Mozilla, but it is still a great way to prove to the public that they are taking security vulnerabilities seriously. It gives the open source community both a reason to poke around in the code, and a healthy reward for being a good digital Samaritan. At the very least its reassuring to know users have a way to report vulnerabilities to the company, and feel confident they will be taken seriously. It feels like every time a new critical flaw in IE is discovered, it was disclosed to the public in an attempt to pressure Microsoft into working on a patch.
Does news like this help warm you up to Chrome?
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Colt725
February 01, 2010 at 5:34am
The install was quick on my Ubuntu machine. Chrome's layout is simple and straight forward. Firefox is my main browser but that might change as the more i use Chrome, the more I like it. I also use Opera as a secondary broswer.
nekollx
February 01, 2010 at 9:39am
same here
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s3kShUn7
January 31, 2010 at 9:18pm
IE6 or IE8? Because if Chrome is in a War with IE6, then Firefox is in a war with Netscape. Hey, by the way, Since I've found so many typos, and I'm providing a service to you guys, perhaps I should be being payed? Honestly, I really wouldn't mind checking all of your stuff for typos before you publish it, for a little bit of money. Or, a few perks. I don't think that either of those are unreasonable to ask for. Because typos as frequent as this really can make a site look unprofessional. I know I'll get a lot of responses to this, but I can deal with those. Let me know.
s3kShUn7
January 31, 2010 at 9:20pm
I've found more than just this one. So don't just say "Well you didn't even find it first". It's not the first one I've found.
stoneyguy
January 31, 2010 at 8:03pm
Google is waging a war against IE6? I never really gave Chrome a real try, but if it's closest comparison is IE6 then both IE8 and Firefox have nothing to worry about.
nekollx
February 01, 2010 at 9:37am
the war is on IE6 because it has more market then everyone...including IE8
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Tenhawk
January 31, 2010 at 9:18pm
I think that you'll find Chrome to be an improvement over Firefox and IE8, actually. Just because Google, the company, is waging war on IE6 it doesn't follow that Chrome, the software package, is their only weapon in said conflict.
Personally, I find that once I started using Chrome, I couldn't go back to firefox let along IE... The interface just feels... I don't know, somehow more natural.
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